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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.
A fur trapper and an escaped slave team up to recover the furs stolen by scalphunters and Indians. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this film.
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- Comedy, Drama, Western
- Sydney Pollack
- 1968-04-02
A movie that masquerades as a Western but mixes action, comedy, social comment and farce. Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas and Shelley Winters star in this "interesting" and entertaining film directed by Sydney Pollack.
A western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters and Telly Savalas. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and other crew members on IMDb.
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 is directed by Sydney Pollack and adapted to screenplay by William W. Norton from the novel of the same name written by Ed Friend. It stars Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas and Shelley Winters.
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The Scalp Hunters. 1968 · 1 hr 44 min. TV-14. Comedy · Western. A lively and ribald western about a frontier-wise fur trapper who loses his pelts to a band of Kiowas in exchange for a slave he doesn't want.
