Buck and the Preacher (1972) DVD5

Storyline: Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this 1972 action comedy with an edge to it. Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has an unmistakable militancy in its story of a wagon-train guide and a con man who team up to throw a posse of white nightriders off the trail of escaped slaves. Poitier has never been a distinctive filmmaker, and Buck and the Preacher certainly doesn't indicate any early signs of raw talent that later went undeveloped. But the film's energy and sense of fun, hand in hand with the suggestively political zing, make it watchable.

IMDB Info: 6.2/10 from 525 users

Country: USA
Genre: Western, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release Date: 28 April 1972 (USA)
Time: 99 min
Languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French
Subtitle: German, English, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian
Director: Sidney Poitier
Cast:

Sidney Poitier … Buck
Harry Belafonte … Preacher
Ruby Dee … Ruth
Cameron Mitchell … Deshay
Denny Miller … Floyd
Nita Talbot … Madam Esther
John Kelly … Sheriff
Tony Brubaker … Headman
Bobby Johnson … Man Who Is Shot
James McEachin … Kingston
Clarence Muse … Cudjo
Lynn Hamilton … Sarah
Doug Johnson … Sam
Errol John … Joshua
Kenneth Menard … Little Henry (as Ken Menard)