• Rating:
• Genre: Western
• Movie Type: Revisionist Western, Biography
• Themes: Bounty Hunters
• Director: William Wiard
• Main Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Farnsworth, Linda Evans, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens
• Release Year: 1980
• Country: US
• Run Time: 98 minutes

Plot

Steve McQueen's penultimate film deals with a fascinating western legend, founded on an insightful script by Thomas McGuane and Bud Shrake. Unfortunately, the film was done in by the five directors --Don Siegel, Elliot Silverstein, James Guercio, William Wiard, and McQueen himself-- that were, at one point or another, attached to the project. The film deals with the infamous Texas gunslinger Tom Horn. Horn gained fame for a variety of exploits; he served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders and was the Pinkerton detective who captured the notorious outlaw Peg Leg Watson. But as Tom Horn begins, something in Horn (Steve McQueen) has snapped. Tom quits the Pinkertons and hires himself out to rancher John Coble (Richard Farnsworth) to assist him in putting an end to his problems with the local homesteaders and rustlers. But Horn performers his job with a chilling intensity, killing so many people with such bloodthirsty rage that it is even too much for Coble and the ranchers to take. When Horn's violence cannot be stopped, Coble has to take the law into his own hands to put a halt to Horn's bloodbath. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Steve McQueen - Tom Horn
• Richard Farnsworth - John Coble
• Linda Evans - Glendolene Kimmel
• Billy Green Bush - Joe Belle
• Slim Pickens - Sam Creedmore

Elisha Cook, Jr. - Stable Hand; Peter Canon - Assistant Prosecutor; Roy Jenson - Mendenhour; Mickey Jones - Brown's Hole Rustler; Richard Kennedy - John Cleveland; James Kline - Arlo Chance; Geoffrey Lewis - Walter Stoll; Harry Northrup - Burke; Bill Thurman - Ora Hale; B.J. Ward - Cattle Baron; Bert Williams - Judge; Bobby Bass - Corbett's Bodyguard; Steven Oliver - Gentleman Jim Corbett

Credit

Clifford C. Coleman - First Assistant Director; Steve McQueen - Executive Producer; John A. Alonzo - Cinematographer; Ernest Gold - Composer (Music Score); George Grenville - Editor; Ron Hobbs - Art Director; Thomas McGuane - Screenwriter; Michael Rachmil - Producer; Sandra Weintraub Roland - Producer; Rick Simpson - Set Designer; Fred Weintraub - Producer; William Wiard - Director; Luster Bayless - Costume Designer; Edwin (Bud) Shrake - Screenwriter; Jerry Jost - Sound/Sound Designer; Tom Horn - Short Story Author

Similar Movies

Mr. Horn; The Searchers; Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid; The Wild Bunch; Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid; The Hunter