Buckskin (film)

Buckskin
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael D. Moore
Written by	Michael Fisher
Produced by	A.C. Lyles
Starring	Barry Sullivan Joan Caulfield Lon Chaney Jr. Aki Aleong Barton MacLane Leo Gordon
Cinematography	W. Wallace Kelley
Edited by	Jack Wheeler
Music by	Jimmie Haskell
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 1968 (1968-05) (U.S.)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Buckskin (1968) is a Western film, released by Paramount Pictures, released on a low budget and starring an all-star cast. The main stars were Barry Sullivan and Joan Caulfield. Lon Chaney Jr. plays the role of Sheriff Tangley and Richard Arlen plays a townsman. The other stars were Barbara Hale, John Russell, Wendell Corey, Bill Williams, Leo Gordon, George Chandler, Aki Aleong and Barton MacLane. The film was also known as The Frontiersman. It was the last of the series of A.C. Lyles Westerns for Paramount. The screenwriter Michael Fisher was the son of the series screenwriter Stephen Gould Fisher.

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.