The Scalphunters

The best thing about this film is the humour, and the sharp dialogue. With this cast just about every scene is enjoyable, but the scenes between Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davies literally crackle. (Ossie Davies practically makes this picture his... Full review

Burt Lancaster plays a fur trader who loses his merchandise to a pack of wild Indians. He spends the rest of the movie trying to get back his precious bag of goodies. Ossie Davis is an educated slave who befriends... Full review

"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... Full review

Superficially, it's about a gang of white men who take Indian scalps for money, but the title doesn't really convey the spirit of the film. Maybe, "They Trade Beaver Pelts, Don't They?" would be better. (I'm reminded of Runaway Train,... Full review

I guess we have to look at these films from a generation view point in what the great Shirley Mclain has recently stated in that they should start to make films for the over 50s age groups.The film of today... Full review

The Scalphunters is a rare treat that didn't eat up the box office in 1968, but whose critical anointment by Judith Christ as one of the "most entertaining" Westerns of that year began to set it apart as a classic.Want... Full review

The acting is brilliant, the picture is fast, thrilling and very comical. But this western, one of the best in the sixties, is not only fun stuff. "The Scalphunters" is a very morally movie, taking a stand against racism and... Full review

I first saw Scalphunters during its original release run in the spring of 1969. The audience' reaction to the scene at the waterhole, Bass and Lee indistinguishable in the mud, and the Indians laughing at them was one of the... Full review

How has a good movie like The Scalphunters become largely unknown over the years while everyone knows what The Matrix is? With a fine cast lead by the legendary Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalis and Shelly Winters and with... Full review

In the late 1960's and the early 1970's the United States was deeply embroiled in Viet Nam with all it's ramifications. It was so far from "the best of times" that it was difficult to laugh at much. Also this... Full review

It was a very good cop movie....They are in the midst of a very improbable plot....Some movies are masterpieces, and most movies are not....sometimes you get a movie that can best be described as "interesting.....they know it, but they effortlessly spin out good performances..... ... Full Review

If you missed Monday's airings, set your recording device to TCM for tomorrow noon. Pollack is the perfect guest to introduce a show called "Whenever I'm at a film festival," Mitchell said a couple of months ago from the Hot... ... Full Article

Action heroics, ironic wit, and outright farce A Review by Stephen Murray 12/08/2002 Native Americans began to be portrayed as human beings in a number of 1950s westerns, including Apache , Broken Arrow , Cochise , Hondo ,and (arguably) John... ... Full Article

A comical western with more than a hint of social satire starring Lancaster as an illiterate trapper who has a run-in with a band of Kiowa Indians. ... Full Article