BUCK AND THE PREACHER
Special Features: Free Screening! New DCP
FREE SCREENING! Tickets are limited to four per reservation and are not a guarantee of admission. You must be seated at least 15 min. prior to showtime. Seating is limited, so please arrive early. Empty seats will be released to standby line guests.
Sidney Poitier made his directorial debut with this unique action/comedy/Western that blends together a trenchant sense of history, a civil rights movement consciousness and some Blaxploitation entertainment value into a potent mix. Poitier stars as Buck, an ex-soldier and the leader of a wagon train of freed slaves departing the South after the Civil War to homestead in Kansas. Joining him in this endeavor is a shady preacher of dubious provenance (Harry Belafonte) and Buck's resourceful wife Ruth (Ruby Dee). The difficult journey and the task of establishing a new settlement would be challenge enough, but the wagon train of "Exodusters" must also contend with a gang of murderous marauders sent by a coterie of irate southern plantation owners to harass the former slaves and prevent them from striking out on their own. DIR Sidney Poitier; SCR Ernest Kinoy; PROD Joel Glickman. U.S., 1972, color, 102 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Opening Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Genre: Western
