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- The Hunter is an unfortunate final movie for McQueen as it's certainly not one of his strongest performances, and the movie itself is all over the place. Despite some good stunt work, it's a weak picture.
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But "The Hunter" bears all the marks of a tailor-made "star vehicle," one of those awful movies catering to a star's ego and image. The character played by McQueen is allegedly based on a real-life bounty hunter, named Papa Thorson, who goes after bail jumpers.
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- BULLITT (1968) Directed by Peter Yates. Screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the novel ‘Mute Witness’ by Robert L. Fish. Starring Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland, Robert Duvall.
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Steve McQueen's farewell performance in The Hunter is a fine action thriller based on the true story of Ralph 'Pappy' Thorsen, bounty hunter and scourge of bail jumpers everywhere or at least those in and around the Chicago area.
- Girl on The Run
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Steve McQueen's first feature film role was an uncredited background appearance in the ultra-low-budget 1953 crime drama, Girl On The Run. The film stars Richard Coogan as Bill Martin, a newspaper reporter investigating a criminal ring working out of a carnival. McQueen appears in the background of two scenes. While the movie has a kind of low-budg...
The Honeymoon Machine is one of the three unsuccessful Steve McQueen flicks (alongside The War Lover and Hell Is For Heroes) sandwiched between The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. The 1961 Richard Thorpe-directed comedy stars McQueen in the role of Ferguson "Fergie" Howard, a Lieutenant working aboard the United States Navy ship, USS Elmira...
Never Love A Strangeris a crime drama featuring John Drew Barrymore (Drew Barrymore's father) as Frankie Kane, who grows up in a Catholic orphanage but runs away and turns to a life of crime after finding out that he's actually Jewish and will therefore be removed from the orphanage and moved to a Jewish home. Steve McQueen plays Kane's Jewish frie...
Steve McQueen first moved to Los Angeles in 1955. Soon after, McQueen played the uncredited role of Fidel in Robert Wise's Somebody Up There Likes Me. The film, based on the life of middleweight boxer Rocky Graziano, stars Paul Newman (who McQueen would later collaborate with on The Towering Inferno) as Rocky, a rebellious youth who undergoes a lon...
The War Lover is a British war film that stars Steve McQueen as Captain Buzz Rickson, an arrogant pilot in command of "Flying Fortress" during World War II. McQueen's character takes pleasure in destruction and, when asked, another character comments that he's unsure whether Buzz is a hero or a psychopath. While this antihero role is, in some ways,...
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery is a Steve McQueen heist movie released in 1959. Directed by Charles Guggenheim, the film stars Steve McQueen in his second leading role in a feature film (after The Blob). McQueen plays George Fowler, a college dropout who is hired by a gang to serve as a getaway driver for a bank robbery. The Great St. Louis Ban R...
The Hunter would be Steve McQueen's final film before his death in November 1980, and it sees the "King of Cool" returning to his crime drama roots. In The Hunter, McQueen plays Ralph "Papa" Thorson, a bounty hunter who is pursued by one of his former convicts, Rocco Mason. The film shows Thorson chasing a number of criminals and ends with a climac...
Following the commercial disaster that was An Enemy Of The People, Steve McQueen struggled to find work, due to his habit of turning down roles that didn't offer a high enough fee. McQueen apparently wanted to adapt a Harold Pinter play, but First Artists insisted that he take a role in Tom Horn, a script they had owned for a while. The film would ...
Hell Is For Heroes is a suspenseful World War II drama movieabout an infantry division that must hold a defensive line against an entire German company for two days until reinforcements arrive. Writer/director Robert Pirosh was originally set to direct the film, based on his own script, but he walked away from the project after encountering trouble...
In 1965, Steve McQueen starred alongside Lee Remick in Baby The Rain Must Fall. The film was McQueen's second collaboration with filmmaker Robert Mulligan. It tells the story of Georgette Thomas (Remick) who travels to Colombus, Texas with her six-year-old daughter in order to meet up with her husband, Henry Thomas (McQueen), recently released from...
Aug 1, 1980 · The small scale, episodic structure and a few plot contrivances sometimes make it feel like a glorified made-for-TV movie (TV veteran Buzz Kulik directed), but Steve is terrific in the role and he's aided by a large and colorful supporting cast.
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The Hunter is a 1980 American biographical crime drama/action thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik and starring Steve McQueen. The film was McQueen's final role before his death in November 1980 at age 50.
Jun 29, 2018 · As maverick modern day bounty hunter Ralph “Papa” Thorson, a military green blazer jacket and bluejeans clad Steve McQueen lifts the trunk of his yellow 1951 Chevrolet Styline DeLuxe ...
