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Siskoid

Sidney Poitier's first directorial effort, Buck and the Preacher, takes for its premise a very interesting piece of forgotten American history. In the wake of the Civil War, some people facilitated the exodus of former slaves to the West, while others paid to have them rustled back by whatever needs necessary to serve as an if not free then cheap workforce. Poitier plays one of the former, teaming up with a con man/preacher played by Harry Belafonte, going up against the white man in a western worthy of being called a precursor to Django Unchained. By the third act, however, I feel like it's abandoned its unique historical background to cycle through classic western tropes, and though the action ramps up, it's sort of lost its way. Too sensitive at first to turn into a western/blaxploitation hybrid in the end, maybe. And though the minimalist score is distinctive, lone mouth organs and strident harmonicas just isn't for me.

4 years 1 month ago

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1 year 9 months ago