Buckskin (also known as The Frontiersman) is a 1968 American Western film directed by Michael D. Moore 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. 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. It was released by Paramount Pictures in May 1968.
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 as Chaddock
Joan Caulfield as Nora Johnson
Wendell Corey as Rep Marlowe
Lon Chaney Jr. as Sheriff Tangley
John Russell as Patch
Barbara Hale as Sarah Cody
Barton MacLane as Doc Raymond
Bill Williams as Frank Cody
Richard Arlen as Townsman
Leo Gordon as Travis
Jean-Michel Michenaud as Akii
George Chandler as Storekeepper Perkins
Aki Aleong as Sung Li
Michael Larrain as Jimmy Cody
Craig Littler as Browdie
James X. Mitchell as Baker
Emile Meyer as Corbin
Robert Riordan as Telegrapher
Le Roy Johnson as Bartender
Manuela Thiess as Moni