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Bookmark this pageThe Scalphunters (1968)
Director: Sydney Pollack
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From Time Out Film Guide
An amiable enough liberal comedy Western, with colour-coded cultural conflict worked through an ironic circular plot. Lancaster's trapper is forcibly traded an ex-slave (Davis) for his pelts by an Indian band, after which the pair set off in uneasy alliance and in pursuit as the pelts are in turn appropriated by a gang of scalphunters. William Norton's script glosses both the racial antagonism and interdependence with a thankfully light hand; Pollack gets in some backwoods practice for the later mythologisation of Jeremiah Johnson. PT.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Sydney Pollack
Producer: Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters, Armando Silvestre, Dan Vadis, Dabney Coleman, Nick Cravat full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 103 mins
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