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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.
The Scalphunters: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis. 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.
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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.
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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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.
Overview. 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.
As the pair grapple, vengeful Kiowa braves descend upon the remaining scalphunters, appropriating their women and sparing only slave and trapper. Together Lee and Bass scheme to recover the pelts. A trapper (Burt Lancaster) and his educated slave (Ossie Davis) track an outlaw band in Sydney Pollack's.
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. Subtitles: English. Starring: Ossie Davis Burt Lancaster Telly Savalas Shelley Winters. Directed by: Sidney Pollack.
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.