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''The McMasters'' is a 1970 American Western film directed by Alf Kjellin and starring
Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American Folk music, folk singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his o ...
, Brock Peters, David Carradine and Nancy Kwan. Producer Monroe Sachson had made ''The Incident'' with Brock Peters and the two were looking around for another film to make together. The budget was around $2 million. The film was shot in
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. The film was cut by the US distributors, Chevron Pictures, and Peters, the writer and producer asked to have their names removed from the film. Ultimately, two versions of the film were released. For its NYC debut, it played in two different theatres, one showing the cut version, the other showing the director's cut.


Plot

An ex-slave is given half-ownership of a farm following the Civil War. He can't find anyone to work for him until Native Americans help. Bigots try to shut him down.


Cast

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Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American Folk music, folk singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his o ...
as McMasters * Brock Peters as Benjamin "Benjie" * David Carradine as White Feather * Nancy Kwan as Robin * Jack Palance as Kolby * Dane Clark as Spencer * John Carradine as Preacher * L. Q. Jones as Russell * R. G. Armstrong as Watson * Alan Vint as Hank


Novelization

Concurrent with the release of the film, Award Books published a
novelization A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book, or video game. Film novelizations were particularly popular before the advent ...
of the screenplay by Dudley Dean McGaughey under his primary by-line, Dean Owen.


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External links

* * 1970 films 1970 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Alf Kjellin 1970s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1970s-US-film-stub