The Scalphunters Movie

After a successful hunting season fur trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) returns home in the hope of selling his hides. But he finds himself unexpectedly attacked by a small band of Kiowa Indians, led by Two Ravens (Armando Silvestre), and forced to trade his pelts for a runaway black slave named Joseph Winston Li (Ossie Davis). He comes from an educated family and therefore can read, write and count; furthermore, his speech is bristled with quotations and even Latin proverbs. Bass decides to follow the Indians, hoping to retrieve his property with the help of Li when the tribe gets drunk on rum. Things take an unexpected turn when the Indians themselves are ambushed and murdered by a gang of scalphunters under Jim Howie (Telly Savalas). Not only Bass's pelts, but also his sly slave falls into the greedy Jim's hands. Now the trapper has to fight with the outlaws alone...

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