- Buckskin (film)
Infobox Film | name = Buckskin
caption = Theatrical release poster
director =Michael D. Moore
producer = A.C Lyles
writer = Jimmie Haskell
starring = Barry Sullivan/Joan Caulfield/Lon Chaney Jr./Aki Aleong/Barton MacLane
music = Jimmie Haskell
cinematography = W. Wallace Kelley
editing = Jack Wheeler
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released = November 18, 1969
runtime = 97 minutes
country = USA
language = English
budget =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0062764Buckskin (1968) is a
western film , released byParamount Pictures , released on alow budget and starring anall-star cast . The main stars were Barry Sullivan andJoan Caulfield .Lon Chaney Jr. plays the role of Sheriff Tangley andRichard Arlen plays a townsman. The other stars wereBarbara Hale ,John Russell ,Wendell Corey ,Bill Williams ,Leo Gordon ,George Chandler ,Aki Aleong andBarton MacLane . The film was also known as "The Frontiersman".Betty Hutton was originally selected to play the role of Nora Johnson, but she was fired.The film also has a small racial twist, common in films of the late 1960s. Sung Lee (played by Aleong) is a Chinese worker who is a victim of prejudice, Chaddock (Sullivan) fights for him during the film.
Cast
*Barry Sullivan (Chaddock)
*Joan Caulfield (Nora Johnson)
*Wendell Corey (Rep Marlowe)
*Lon Chaney Jr. (Sheriff Tangley)
*John Russell (Patch)
*Barbara Hale (Sarah Cody)
*Barton MacLane (Doc Raymond)
*Bill Williams (Frank Cody)
*Richard Arlen (Townsman)
*Leo Gordon (Travis)
*Jean-Michel Michenaud (Akii)
*George Chandler (Storekeepper Perkins)
*Aki Aleong (Sung Li)
*Michael Larrain (Jimmy Cody)
*Craig Littler (Browdie)
*James X. Mitchell (Baker)
*Emile Meyer (Corbin)
*Robert Riordan (Telegrapher)
*Leroy Johnson (Bartender (as Le Roy Johnson)
*Manuela Thiess (Moni)External links
*imdb title|0062764
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