The Scalphunters
by Sydney Pollack
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Dabney Coleman, Ossie Davis, Shelley Winters, Telly SavalasDirector: Sydney Pollack
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: Burt Lancaster
Cinematographer: Duke Callaghan
Producer: Arnold Laven
Producer: Arthur Gardner
Producer: Jules V. Levy
Producer: Roland Kibbee
Writer: William W. Norton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Scalphunters
Movie Review: Pollack directed the film with a sense of humor unexpected in the genre...
Summary: 3 Stars
"The Scalphunters" opens with an illiterate frontier fur trapper named Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) refusing to trade his furs, with the Kiowa Indians, for a runaway field slave... But at the end, he is forced at gunpoint to do that and Bass finds himself, in one moment, the owner of Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis), an escapee from Louisiana, formerly of the Comanche tribe, until stolen by the Kiowas...
Lee, an African--slave by employment, black by color--results one of the highest educated families in Louisiana, who can read and write... Lee's intention was to circle south, as far as Mexico, because the Mexicans have a law against the slavery trade...
Bass' immediate plan was to catch up with the Kiowas and get back his pack horse and furs... But his plan soon failed when a band of scalphunters led by a dangerous double-crosser, Jim Howie (Telly Savalas) attack the poor Indians killing almost all of them and taking, by the way, Bass' property... Bass-- a man who moves mountains to get what he wants-- stampedes their wagons and makes the scalphunters' horses dangerous to ride...
The sweetest, and in some ways the funniest moments come out when Bass talks to his horse... In one scene, he gets so excited, and turns back to his stallion saying: "By god, you have got an idea!"
Telly Savalas makes Kojak a charmer, but in Pollack's film he is a psychopathic bounty hunter who slaughters a dozen Indians...
Kate (Shelley Winters)--a cigar-puffing doxy qualified to do things to any man--is sick about her lover's wagon... She complains that she lives like a squaw... Kate's dream was to live like a lady in a fancy house with servants... Winters delivers the best line of the whole movie when she exclaimed at the end of the film: "What the hell? They're all men."
Ossie Davis comes out with a real sense of humor... In one scene he explains to Kate the benefits of the common cactus, known to the Comanches as Maguey... He makes her believe that this plant was used in the ancient times by the Queen of Sheba to restore the natural oils to her beautiful blond hair...
It was nice to see Nick Cravat in a modest role as one of Savalas' men... As you remember, Cravat was ideally cast as Lancaster's sidekick, Piccolo, in the flamboyant "The Flame and the Arrow" in 1950, a spoof of the Robin Hood genre, set against the castle battlements and banquets halls of medieval Lombardy...
Summary of The Scalphunters
Oscar?(r)-winning* director Sydney Pollack delivers a "rousing good show" (The Film Daily) with this fast-paced western full of "irresistible humor" and "delightful ironies" (MotionPicture Herald). Starring Oscar?(r) winners** Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters along with Telly Savalas and Ossie Davis, The Scalphunters is "a lively, ribald and unpredictable pleasure which carries the western into new country" (Los Angeles Times)! When trapper Joe Bass (Lancaster) is bushwhacked by Indians who steal his fursand leave him a runaway slave (Davis) in exchangehe's determined to get his property back. But when the Indians are attacked byoutlaws, Joe and his unwanted companion must join forces to retrieve the furs in a startling, action-packed journey of self-discovery that concludes with one of the "all-time cinematic comeuppances" (Citizen-News)!Comedy DVD Video
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