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- The Scalphunters is a 1968 American Western film starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Telly Savalas.
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The Scalphunters is a 1968 American Western film starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Telly Savalas. The film was directed by Sydney Pollack, with the score written by Elmer Bernstein. Davis was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film.
Comedy Drama Western. Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them. Director. Sydney Pollack. Writer. William W. Norton. Stars. Burt Lancaster. Shelley Winters. Telly Savalas. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING.
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- Comedy, Drama, Western
- Sydney Pollack
- 1968-04-02
To describe "The Scalphunters" as a Western would be inaccurate, although it masquerades as one. It's actually the damnedest mixture of different sorts of movies you've ever seen. It wins this year's " Beat the Devil " award for trying to do a dozen things at once.
Released Apr 2, 1968 1h 42m Western Comedy. List. Illiterate fur trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is coerced by some Kiowa Indians into trading his haul for a well-educated, escaped slave named...
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- Burt Lancaster
- Sydney Pollack
- Western, Comedy
The Scalphunters (1968) Burt Lancaster is Joe Bass, a trapper riding in with the winter’s bounty of furs. He’s accosted by Kiowa led by Chief Two Crows, who take his furs and his booze and gives him a kidnapped slave named Joseph Winfield Lee (Ossie Davis) in return.
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Amusing late 60s Western with Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Savalas. A rugged trapper (Burt Lancaster) is forced by a band of Kiowas to trade his valuable furs for an educated runaway slave (Ossie Davis). To get the furs back, they follow the Indians and, then, a band of scalphunters, led by a boisterous bald guy (Telly Savalas).
Robbed of his precious, hard-earned cargo of hides, the rugged fur trapper, Joe Bass, finds himself with his back to the wall, and an unwanted companion, the well-educated runaway slave, Joseph Lee, after a fateful encounter with a marauding group of Kiowa Indians.
