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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1969 · Nominated
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.
- (4.5K)
- 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.
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. Sydney Pollack. Director. William W. Norton. Screenplay. Reviews. Written by Wuchak on February 17, 2020.
Trapper Joe Bass confronts a party of Kiowa Indians. 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.
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.
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