Actor : Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Julie Robinson Director: Chuck Hayward, Sidney Poitier Genre: Westerns Year: 1971 Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Length: 102 Released: February 29, 2000 Rating:PG Format: DVD(NTSC/Region 1) Misc: NTSC, Color Language: English subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Chinese, Thai
DESCRIPTION:
Sidney Poitier directs and stars in this all-black western about an ex-Union Army cavalry soldier leading a group of recently-freed slaves to the western frontier in post-Civil War America. Tagging along with Buck are his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee) and a con man disguised as a preacher (Harry Belafonte, in his first onscreen pairing with Poitier). The black homesteaders' progress is seriously impeded by a sadistic racist (Cameron Mitchell) and his band of murderous thugs who resent the slaves' newfound freedom and wish to send them back to a life of servitude and sharecropping in Louisiana. With equal parts drama and comedy--as well as Biblical allusions to the story of Exodus--Buck and his followers must summon all their courage to contend with the racists on their journey to freedom.
Actor : Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Julie Robinson Director: Chuck Hayward, Sidney Poitier Genre: Westerns Year: 1971 Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Length: 102 Released: February 29, 2000 Rating:PG Format: DVD(NTSC/Region 1) Misc: NTSC, Color Language: English subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Chinese, Thai
DESCRIPTION:
Sidney Poitier directs and stars in this all-black western about an ex-Union Army cavalry soldier leading a group of recently-freed slaves to the western frontier in post-Civil War America. Tagging along with Buck are his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee) and a con man disguised as a preacher (Harry Belafonte, in his first onscreen pairing with Poitier). The black homesteaders' progress is seriously impeded by a sadistic racist (Cameron Mitchell) and his band of murderous thugs who resent the slaves' newfound freedom and wish to send them back to a life of servitude and sharecropping in Louisiana. With equal parts drama and comedy--as well as Biblical allusions to the story of Exodus--Buck and his followers must summon all their courage to contend with the racists on their journey to freedom.