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Cult Film | Slavery
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Best Supporting Actor | 1969 | Ossie
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.
In his review for the film a critic remarked that Burt Lancaster's performances had not varied much over the years, unlike his hairstyles.
Female lead Shelley Winters had been female co-lead in a previous Burt Lancaster vehicle: The Young Savages (1961).
"Joe Bass: If God ever made two greater inventions than a pretty woman and a bottle of whiskey, I ain't heard of it!"
"Joe Bass: Scalp hunters. Collect a $25 bounty on Indian scalps. Men, women, and children like jackals. Territory government pays it. Dirtiest, rottenest trade ever turned a dollar."
