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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.
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.
Jul 15, 2019 · 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. Bass sets out to get his furs; Joseph Lee tags along.
Feb 15, 2012 · Watch the trailer of The Scalphunters, a 1968 western comedy film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas and Ossie Davis. See how a trapper, a ...
A frontier-wise fur trapper is forced into a business trade he didn't want with Kiowas and will do whatever it takes to set things rights again. 491 IMDb 6.7 1 h 43 min 1968. X-Ray 16+. Comedy · Western · Thrilling · Strange. Free trial of ScreenPix, rent, or buy.
