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. Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.
Stars Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Movie Trivia
Burt Lancaster had met Ossie Davis on the historic, Martin Luther King "Civil Rights March on Washington" on Aug. 28, 1963. This chance meeting, led to the talented Davis, being cast as "Joseph Winfield Lee" the runaway slave, who uses his clever, resourceful ways to manipulate fur trapper, "Joe Bass", Lancaster, in the film. Lancaster also stated, that first time screenwriter, William W. Norton submitted such a unique, clever script, that he just had to do the film.
Burt Lancaster first met Sydney Pollack when Pollack worked as a dialogue director on the Luchino Visconti epic The Leopard (1963), in which Lancaster starred. This was the second of three movies that they made together in quick succession., the others being The Swimmer (1968) and Castle Keep (1969). This was by far the most successful of the three.
Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters reputedly had a two-year affair in the mid-'50s.
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