The McMasters

{{Short description|1970 film by Alf Kjellin}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The McMasters

| image =File:The McMasters.jpg

| caption =

| director = Alf Kjellin

| producer = Monroe Sachson
Dimitri de Grunwald

| screenplay = Harold Jacob Smith

| starring = Burl Ives
Brock Peters
David Carradine
Nancy Kwan

| music = Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

| cinematography = Lester Shorr

| editing = Melvin Shapiro

| studio = Distrifilm SA
JayJen Productions

| distributor = Chevron Pictures

| released = {{film date|1970|08|07|New York City|1970|12|23|Los Angeles}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

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The McMasters is a 1970 American Western film directed by Alf Kjellin and starring Burl Ives, 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.{{Cite news|title=Movies: An International Film Effort in New Mexico|author=Briggs, Walter.|date=Apr 13, 1969|work=Los Angeles Times|page=s17}} The film was shot in New Mexico.{{Cite news|title=Making a western with overtones of now: 'Kind of frightening' Born a slave|author=Kimmis Hendrick|date=May 12, 1969|work=The Christian Science Monitor|page=4}}

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.{{Cite news|title=DISAGREE WITH EDITING: Principals Disown New Film|author=Kilday, Gregg|date=Sep 1, 1970|work=Los Angeles Times|page=g13}} 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.