Rating: NR
Genre: Western
Release Date: 05/17/2005
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: MGM

For his third feature outing, director Sydney Pollack helmed this comedic western starring (Burt Lancaster) as fur trapper Joe Bass. While heading for the trading post for his pay after a successful hunting season, Bass runs into a band of Kiowa Indians, who offer to trade the educated slave Joseph (Ozzie Davis) for Bass's furs. Severely outnumbered, the uneducated Bass reluctantly agrees to the swap at gunpoint. Bass and Joseph then follow the Indians in hopes of retrieving the furs. Along the way, the Indians meet up with Jim Howie (Telly Savalas), who not only steals the furs from the Indians, but Joseph from Bass. From there, Jim and his mistress Kate (Shelley Winters) head for Mexico, a move that is fine with Joseph because slavery is outlawed there. But they may not make it south of the border, as the Indians have regrouped and are on their trail with plans to take back the furs.

~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Burt Lancaster - Joe Bass
Shelley Winters - Kate
Telly Savalas - Jim Howie
Ossie Davis - Joseph
Armando Sylvestre - Two Crows
Dabney Coleman - Jed
Dan Vadis - Yuma
Jack Williams - Scalphunter
John Epper - Scalphunter

Production:
Sydney Pollack - Director
Arthur Gardner Arnold Laven Jules Levy - Producer
Elmer Bernstein - Composer
John M. Woodcock - Editor
Frank Arrigo - Art Director
Lynn Stalmaster - Casting
Alex Ruiz - Choreography
Duke Callaghan - Cinematographer
Joe Drury - Costume Designer
Herman Townsley - Special Effects
Tony Epper - Stunts
Richard Moore - Cinematographer

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