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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.
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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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Find out who starred in the 1968 film The Scalphunters, directed by Sydney Pollack and produced by Burt Lancaster. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, and more on IMDb.
A review of a movie that tries to do a dozen things at once, from Western comedy to social commentary, with four seasoned pros and a gallery of stock characters. Ebert praises the performances and the fun of the actors, but criticizes the plot and the message.
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
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Synopsis. 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.
The Scalphunters. Summaries. 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. Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter.
