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    The Scalphunters

    1968 · Western · 1h 42m

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  1. 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.

  2. 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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    • Comedy, Drama, Western
    • Sydney Pollack
    • 1968-04-02
  3. The Scalphunters (1968) 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.

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  4. Lancaster plays Joe Bass, an ignorant white trapper in the Old West whose furs are hijacked by a band of Kiowa Indians. The Kiowas trade a freed slave, Joseph Lee (Davis), for the furs but are soon attacked by a band of scalphunters led by Jim Howie (Savalas).

  5. The Scalphunters (1968) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  6. 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...

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    • Western, Comedy
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  8. What we have here are four seasoned pros: Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas and the wonderful Shelley Winters. They are in the midst of a very improbable plot, and they know it, but they effortlessly spin out good performances.

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