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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: April 28, 1972 |
Summary:
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Genre(s):
Adventure, Drama, Western
Runtime:
102 min
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By boldly balancing historical responsibility with modern social critique, Poitier establishes his Western masterpiece as both a time capsule and timeless adventure, flowing effortlessly between the genre’s entertaining shootouts and robberies and the prescient commentary of subverting racist systems by all means necessary.
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A modest entertainment made intriguing by the race element. [15 May 1972, p.14]
[Poitier] is indeed so good that he almost enables one to forget that "Buck and the Preacher" is simply a standard Western with a slightly different twist. [10 May 1972, p.17]
This is one of very few westerns that casts African-Americans in the lead roles. [27 Jun 2015, p.32]
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