The read
Scores higher than 75% of the 570 1970s action movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes84%
Metacritic65/100
70 audience votes
Key crew
- Benny CarterOriginal Music Composer
- Sidney PoitierDirector
- Ernest KinoyScreenplay
Cast
- Sidney PoitierBuck
- Harry BelafontePreacher
- Ruby DeeRuth
- Cameron MitchellDeshay
- Denny MillerFloyd
- Nita TalbotMadam Esther
- John KellySheriff
- Tony BrubakerHeadman
- Bobby JohnsonMan Who is Shot
- James McEachinKingston
- Clarence MuseCudjo
- Lynn HamiltonSarah
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Themes
con mankansas, usapreacherwagon master1860s
The Best Movies of 1972
Buck and the Preacher is #49 of 49
