New on Blu-ray: BUCK AND THE PREACHER (1972) - Criterion Collection

Buck And The Preacher 1972 New On Bluray Criterion Collection

Product Description: 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.

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Director: Sidney Poitier

Starring: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western

Runtime: 103 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: August 23, 2022

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Region: Region A/1

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Blu-ray: English SDH

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New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New interview with Mia Mask, author of Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western
Behind-the-scenes footage featuring actor-director Sidney Poitier and actor Harry Belafonte
Interviews with Poitier and Belafonte from 1972 episodes of Soul! and The Dick Cavett Show
New interview with Gina Belafonte, daughter of Harry Belafonte
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Aisha Harris