Directed by:
Sidney PoitierScreenplay:
Ernest KinoyCinematography:
Álex Phillips Jr.Composer:
Benny CarterCast:
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Nita Talbot, James McEachin, Clarence Muse, John Howard, John Dierkes (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power–era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing “preacher,” who join forces in order to take on the white bounty hunters threatening a westward-bound caravan of recently freed enslaved people. A superbly crafted revisionist landmark, Buck and the Preacher subverts Hollywood conventions at every turn and reclaims the western genre in the name of Black liberation. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Sidney Poitier
USA
Best movies:
A Patch of Blue (1965)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Harry Belafonte
USA
Best movies:
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Bobby (2006)
The Player (1992)
Ruby Dee
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Cameron Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
Hombre (1967)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Denny Miller
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
V (1983) (TV movie)
The Party (1968)
Nita Talbot
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Caged (1950)
Columbo (1971) (series)
James McEachin
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Lawyer (1970)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Clarence Muse
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Love Crazy (1941)
Scarlet Street (1945)
John Howard
USA
Best movies:
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Invisible Woman (1940)
John Dierkes
USA
Best movies:
Touch of Evil (1958)
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Enrique Lucero
Mexico
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Lynn Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Shadows (1958)
Errol John
Trinidad and Tobago
Best movies:
The African Queen (1951)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Guns at Batasi (1964)
Jerry Gatlin
USA
Best movies:
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1968)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Starman (1984)
Pamela Jones
Best movies:
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
John Kelly
Best movies:
Something Big (1971)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Big Jake (1971)
Doug Johnson
Best movies:
Let's Do It Again (1975)
The Lost Man (1969)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)