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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. Filming took place in Sierra de Órganos National Park in ...
A fur trapper tries to recover his stolen furs and a runaway slave from scalphunters and Indians in this 1968 film directed by Sydney Pollack. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
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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 Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis). Bass seeks to track the ...
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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. A Panavision/De Luxe Colour production, music is by Elmer Bernstein and cinematography by Richard Moore and Duke Callaghan.
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Led by Two Crows, the band compels Bass to exchange mule and furs for fugitive slave Joseph Winfield Lee. Hoping for an opportunity to retrieve his possessions, Bass follows them. While imbibing Bass' whiskey the Kiowas are ambushed by scalphunters. Only Two Crows escapes. As Bass stalks the whites, Lee is captured.
