Movie
The Scalphunters
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1968-02-29
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Western
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Bristol Films, Norlan Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Burt Lancaster as Joe Bass
- Shelley Winters as Kate
- Telly Savalas as Jim Howie
- Ossie Davis as Joseph Lee
- Dabney Coleman as Jed
- Paul Picerni as Frank
- Dan Vadis as Yuma
- Armando Silvestre as Two Crows
- Nick Cravat as Yancy
- Tony Epper as Scalphunter
- Chuck Roberson as Scalphunter
- John Epper as Scalphunter
Crew
- Sydney Pollack - Director
- William W. Norton - Screenplay
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