The Scalphunters Reviews

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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more