James McEachin

Buck and the Preacher -- Action-packed Western about a scout (Sidney Poitier) and a con man (Harry Belafonte) who team up toprotect the Exodusters: ex-slaves who traveled across the West after the Civil War. Directed by Poitier. Music by jazz great Benny Carter.

The Lawyer -- An elderly woman named Mary is visited early one morning by a strange man wearing a suit. This man insists on seeing her despite her suspicion of him. Starring Justin Lancaster, Patricia Moore, and Rachel P. Carter.

Widely regarded at the time of its release as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with a social conscience, Buck and the Preacher is an immensely satisfying Western which marked Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, as well as his first screen pairing with superstar Harry Belafonte. Poitier stars as Buck, an ex-Union Army Cavalry sergeant who becomes a scout for freed slaves heading to the Colorado frontier. Tagging along with him are his wife (Ruby Dee in a scene-stealing performance) and a Bible-thumping con artist known as the Preacher (Belafonte). Attacked by racist bounty hunters determined to return the former slaves to a life of sharecropping in Louisiana, Buck and his followers must summon all the courage they have in order to reach their destination and help settle the Wild West.

Superstar and Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood ("Million Dollar Baby", "Unforgiven"), breaks all his prior records as he reprises his classic role as "Dirty Harry" Callahan. This time, Harry tracks down a revenge-obsessed murderess (Sondra Locke) while local mobsters are gunning for him. The Hollywood Reporter calls Eastwood "a very good action director... he knows how to make the gut tighten and the skin crawl as the tension mounts." "A great audience picture" says Roger Ebert. "(It) has all the action anyone could want," says The New York Post. Dirty Harry will "make your day" in one of 1984's biggest box-office hits.