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"Scalp hunters. The wickedest, crookedest trade to ever turn a dollar."
Once quietly groundbreaking for its racial politics - OssieDavies' escaped slave is by far smarter than any of the film's white characters, quite a bold move for a mainstream movie even in 1967 - seen today The Scalphunters is one of those films that's enjoyable but never quite as good as it could be. Former IRA gunrunner turned screenwriter William Norton's almost Dickensian dialogue in the first third of the movie is so good that it's a shame that the plot separates Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davies for so long and while it makes some smart points about racism along the way there's a feeling of the film almost running down rather than building up to a climax. Still, Elmer Bernstein's score is one of the best ever written for a Western, alternatively rousingly vivid, jauntily amusing and lyrically likeable, and the film has its charms. <
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>MGM/UA's US DVD includes the theatrical trailer and 2.35:1 widescreen and fullscreen versions of the film.

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Great Cast in This Western Story
Entertainig Burt Lancaster vehicle. <
>A good Western with light comedic tones <
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>You could almost call it a veiled history\ morality lesson <
>with an all star cast delivering it with flare.

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Excellent Western
An excellent cast, great adventure for western lovers. Each of the stars shine in their characters from a Black Camanche sold to a determined mountain man to get his furs back from indians later massacred and taken by a ruthless bounty hunter. And yes, there is romance.