The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters (1968) is a rowdy comedy Western you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Sydney Pollack early in his career.

Fur trapper Joe Bass loses a whole season's pelts to a band of Kiowa, who leave him an educated runaway slave named Joseph Lee in the bargain. Bass wants his furs back. It doesn't go his way. Soon a gang of scalp-hunting outlaws led by the grinning Jim Howie (Telly Savalas) and his loud companion (Shelley Winters) muscles in on the same haul.

Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davis carry the picture on bickering alone, and under the brawls and chases sits a sly jab at frontier racism — the slave outthinks every man who claims to own him. Stream The Scalphunters (1968) online on iFILM.