BUCK AND THE PREACHER [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1972
• Genre: Western
• Plot: Widely regarded at the time of its release as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with a social conscience, BUCK AND THE PREACHER is an immensely satisfying Western which marked Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, as well as his first screen pairing with superstar Harry Belafonte.; ; Poitier stars as Buck, an ex-Union Army Cavalry sergeant who becomes a scout for freed slaves heading to the Colorado frontier. Tagging along with him are his wife (Ruby Dee in a scene-stealing performance) and a Bible-thumping con artist known as the Preacher (Belafonte). Attacked by racist bounty hunters determined to return the former slaves to a life of sharecropping in Louisiana, Buck and his followers must summon all the courage they have in order to reach their destination and help settle the Wild West.
• Cast: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Nita Talbot, John Kelly, Tony Brubaker, Bobby Johnson, James McEachin, Clarence Muse, Lynn Hamilton, Doug Johnson, Errol John, Kenneth Menard, Pamela Jones, Drake Walker, Dennis Hines, Fred M. Waugh, Bill Shannon, Phil Adams, Walter Scott, John Howard, Shirleena Manchur, La Markova, Hannelore Richter, Valerie Heckman, Stephanie Lower, Enrique Lucero, Julie Robinson, José Carlos Ruiz, Ron Fletcher, Jerry Gatlin, Ivan Scott, Bill Cook, John Kennedy, John Dierkes, Ernest Kinoy
• Director: Sidney Poitier
• Runtime: 1:42
• Company: Columbia Pictures
• Media Format: Movie