Word: poitiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buck and the Preacher is the best of this bad lot. Directed by and co-starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun. Poitier plays Buck, a guide whose job is to get wagon trains of poor blacks through the terrors of testy Indians and the sudden, brutal raids of freebooters hired to steer the wagons back to Louisiana, where the blacks are needed on the farms. Much to his chagrin, Buck is abetted by a smarmy and slightly balmy preacher (Harry Belafonte) who has a fine...
Flashing a set of scrupulously blackened teeth, Belafonte overacts outrageously but amusingly. Poitier mostly contents himself with dispensing his standard Captain Marvel characterization. Even so, there are a couple of scenes - especially one where Buck talks quietly about an impending defeat - in which Poitier reminds us that he is still a superb actor. For the past few years, that has been all too easy to forget...
SOUL: Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte show and discuss scenes from their new film. "Buck and the Preacher." 8. May 15. Chan...
Buck and the Preacher, with Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier. Music Hall. Call 423-3300 for times...
...Blue in the works, is planning a series of black "active adventure comedies." Universal and Fox will contribute their own versions of the black private-eye story. A bit more imaginative, Columbia has a black western, Buck and the Preacher, ready for spring distribution; it is directed by Sidney Poitier, who stars with Harry Belafonte. Paramount will release The Legend of Nigger Charley, about a slave who kills his overseer and heads for the frontier-a Southern western...