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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. It has a lot of hard action in it. It has social comment.
Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Sydney Pollack directed The Scalphunters in 1968 with a strong leading cast, including Burt Lancaster, Ossie ...
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"The Scalphunters" opens with an illiterate frontier fur trapper named Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) refusing to trade his furs, with the Kiowa Indians, for a runaway field slave But at the end, he is forced at gunpoint to do that and Bass finds himself, in one moment, the owner of Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis), an escapee from Louisiana, formerly of the Comanche tribe, until stolen by the Kiowas Lee ...
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004. Working on several levels, the film is entertaining as an outdoor adventure, a study in character and a movie with an explicit, but never heavy ...
The Scalphunters. 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 ...
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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Mar 4, 2024 · Sydney Pollack’s The Scalphunters is certainly entertaining, if not exactly distinguished; a shameless comedy Western that offers a witches’ brew of genre stereotypes, rollicking action, broad farce, and hip social commentary. Though wildly uneven—its frequent caroms from camp and slapstick to pedagogy and drama are liable to cause ...
