Story Line
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.
“"I'M JOE BASS and I say that scalphunters are the most ornery, girl-grabbing, back-stubbers on earth. I HUNT SCALPHUNTERS!"”
Top Cast
Burt Lancaster
Joe Bass
Shelley Winters
Kate
Telly Savalas
Jim Howie
Ossie Davis
Joseph Lee
Dabney Coleman
Jed
Paul Picerni
Frank
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1968-02-29
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
ComedyWestern
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
8/10
•3/5/2019Throw you in a pigpen, and you'd come out vice-president of the hogs.
The Scalphunters is directed by Sydney Pollack and adapted to screenplay by William W. Norton from the novel of the same name written by Ed Friend. It stars Burt Lancaster, Ossi...
Wuchak
6/10
•2/17/2020***Amusing late 60s Western with Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Savalas***
A rugged trapper (Burt Lancaster) is forced by a band of Kiowas to trade his valuable furs for an educated runaway slave (Ossie Davis). To get the furs back, they follow the In...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•2/9/2026If you are looking for an antithesis to so many broody and dialogue-light westerns, then this could well do the trick. “Joe” (Burt Lancaster) is a trapper who is robbed of his winter’s work by some local Indians and left with “Joseph Lee” (Ossie Davi...