Buck y el farsante

Título original: Buck and the Preacher

1972
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1h 42min

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Un maestro en carretas y un predicador estafador ayudan a liberar esclavos que son perseguidos por un grupo de agentes de mano de obra barata del oeste.Un maestro en carretas y un predicador estafador ayudan a liberar esclavos que son perseguidos por un grupo de agentes de mano de obra barata del oeste.Un maestro en carretas y un predicador estafador ayudan a liberar esclavos que son perseguidos por un grupo de agentes de mano de obra barata del oeste.

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On the advice of his future wife Joanna Shimkus, Sidney Poitier took over directorial duties from Joseph Sargent when he became dissatisfied with the film's point of view. As a result, this turned out to be Poitier's debut behind the camera and he would go on to direct eight more pictures.

Pifias
After the Preacher sees Buck saddling his horse to steal it, he puts on his hat. There is grass on the hat, but in the next shot it is gone.

Citas
Buck: Which way are you ridin', Preacher?
The Preacher: Well, that's not exactly settled in my mind yet.
Buck: Well, you got three possibilities.
The Preacher: Oh?
Buck: North, south or east.
The Preacher: What happened to west?
Buck: We're going west.

Créditos adicionales
Opening credits prologue: The Civil War was over and by law the slaves were freed. But when the promise of land and freedom was not honored, many ex-slaves journeyed out of the land of bondage in search of new frontiers where they could be free at last.

They placed their hopes in the hands of the few black wagonmasters that knew the territories of the West.

None of this came easy, for for not only did they have to overcome a hostile wilderness, but nightriders and bounty hunters were hired by persons unknown to hunt them down and turn them back to the fields.

This picture is dedicated to those men, women and children who lie in graves as unmarked as their place in history.

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Featured in The Dick Cavett Show: Episodio fechado 1 mayo 1972 (1972)

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8/10

Poitier is great, but this time Belafonte stolen the picture!!

After civil war, the free black people headed to west in searching for a free land, Sidney Poitier was in charge to guide this settlers toward to western lands, however a bunch leading by the evil Deshay (Cameron Mitchel) pursued them, try out convincing by force to return to Louisiana, meanwhile appears the preacher (Belafonte) the best character in the movie, an easy going man who hidden behind in a mask of God's man, he is malicious, raunchy and cheater, quite often he speech set phases from the Bible, Buck realizes that the preacher isn't trustful, nevertheless has to live together in such circumstances, these opposing forces are the highlight of the picture, developing a perfect chemistry between two distinct characters, also it has an indelible black humor, a rare movie made at Blaxploitation era, shot at Durango on Mexico displaying a dry and beautiful landscape, enjoyable and highly underrated!!

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First watch: 1980 / How many: 5 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8.5