
The Revenant(2015)
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.


“"I'M JOE BASS and I say that scalphunters are the most ornery, girl-grabbing, back-stubbers on earth. I HUNT SCALPHUNTERS!"”
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.

Burt Lancaster
Joe Bass

Shelley Winters
Kate

Telly Savalas
Jim Howie

Ossie Davis
Joseph Lee

Dabney Coleman
Jed

Paul Picerni
Frank
Dan Vadis
Yuma
Armando Silvestre
Two Crows

Nick Cravat
Yancy

Tony Epper
Scalphunter
The Scalphunters is a comedy, western film released in 1968 exploring themes of slavery, scalp, native american, fur trapping, escaped slave. Directed by Sydney Pollack, it stars Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas. 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.
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