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- 1972
- GP
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 1972
- GP
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Summary A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Directed By: Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent
Written By: Ernest Kinoy, Drake Walker
- 1972
- GP
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 1972
- GP
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Buck and the Preacher
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Summary A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Directed By: Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent
Written By: Ernest Kinoy, Drake Walker
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
38% Mixed
6 Reviews
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6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
65
56% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
38% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
By Benjamin Crabtree
FULL REVIEW
Poitier relieves the melodrama, thankfully, by livening up the picture with his sense of humor. [29 Apr 1972, p.187]
For all of Buck and the Preacher’s serious attempts to function as a revisionist western by centering Blacks in the narrative and examining the critical role they played on the frontier, it’s also a wildly entertaining film.
[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]
By R.H. Gardner
Buck and the Preacher, Sidney Poitier's first film as director as well as star, is a loose, amiable, post-Civil War Western with a firm though not especially severe Black Conscience.
It is pleasant enough, but somehow - despite excellent performances by Poitier (the intrepid wagonmaster) and Belafonte (a roguish preacher) - it never quite clicks.
By Staff (Not Credited)
FULL REVIEW
Stereotypes abound in this foolish, witless western--a production misusing the fine talent in its cast.
By Staff (Not Credited)
FULL REVIEW
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