The Mountain Men

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The Mountain Men
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Lang
Produced by	Andrew Scheinman (producer) Martin Shafer (producer) Richard R. St. Johns (executive producer) Cathleen Summers (executive producer)
Written by	Fraser Clarke Heston
Starring	Charlton Heston Brian Keith Seymour Cassel
Music by	Michel Legrand
Cinematography	Michel Hugo
Editing by	Eva Ruggiero
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	1 June 1980
Running time	102 minutes
Language	English
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The Mountain Men is a 1980 Adventure/Western film starring Charlton Heston and Brian Keith.

[edit] Plot

Brian Keith stars as an argumentative, curmudgeonly mountain man by the name of Henry Frapp. His co-star, Charlton Heston, in the role of Bill Tyler, is Henry's good friend and fellow trapper. Together, they trap beaver, fought Indians, and become classicly inebriated at a mountain man rendezvous while trying to sell their "plews", or beaver skins, to a cutthroat French trader named Fontanel.

Henry manages to survive a scalping by a ruthless Blackfoot warrior named Heavy Eagle, and is reunited with Bill Tyler later in the movie to engage in a final, glorious battle with a Blackfoot war party led by Heavy Eagle.