Buck and the preacher.

X: CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate E: 2000'(16/8/9.5mm) 16mm Color Sound Sidney Poitier Director: Sidney Poitier Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures

The film is set in the late 1860s in the Kansas Territory immediately following the American Civil War. It follows a former soldier named Buck (Sidney Poitier) as he leads wagon trains of African Americans from Louisiana west to the unsettled territories of Kansas. A group of violent white men employed by plantation owners in Louisiana Delta have been tasked with raiding African American wagon trains and settlements to either scare them back to Louisiana or kill them.

Credits

Cast
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee

Copyright

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, sound, genre, description, credits
  2. Wikidata · Q4982971 ↗ — length, color, country
  3. U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright