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1980
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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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- IE Dynamite (1976) - 5.2
- Hunter (1980) - 6.3
- Reivers (1969) - 6.7
- Horn (1980) - 6.8
- IOR Bonner (1972) - 6.8
- Ada Smith (1966) - 6.9
- Cincinnati Kid (1965) - 7.3
- Getaway (1972) - 7.4
- Magnificent Seven (1960) - 7.7
- Ted: Dead Or Alive (1958 - 1961) - 8.1
An illegal moonshiner is set up by his partner, the sheriff, and gets killed by a deputy. His daughters try to keep the family farm running, but it's mysteriously foreclosed upon. In order to seek revenge for their father, they keep his moonshine business going and plot to rob the bank that foreclosed on them. This movie is filled with Western trop...
Steve McQueen's last movie is a comedic contemporary Western about a bounty hunter who finds himself on the other side of the hunting. Papa Thorson is the last bounty hunter who has a lot on his plate, difficult criminals, his pregnant girlfriend, the fact thjat he can barely drive, and on top of all that, a recently released criminal is seeking re...
At the turn of the century in Mississippi, Boon (Steve McQueen), a mischievous plantation handyman, convinces Lucious to steal his grandfather's new car, the only one in the area. Boon heads toward Memphis, with an 11-year-old boy named Ned hiding in the trunk, to visit his girlfriend who works at a brothel. This late-period Western road trip movie...
An infamous former army scout named Tom Horn (Steve McQueen) is hired by local ranchers to deal with dangerous cattle rustlers. Although he performs his duty to great effect, those around him find his methods distasteful and even see him as an obstacle to their own ambitions. Things come to a dangerous head when it appears that Horn has killed a yo...
Sam Peckinpah directed this Western family drama about a rodeo rider on his last legs returning to his hometown and his dysfunctional family. While Junior is just focused on his rodeo career, his brother, Curly, has become a real estate mogul and is busy tearing down the family home to build a trailer park. RELATED: Wild West Dynasty & 9 Great (Non...
Steve McQueen plays the titular character of Nevada Smith in this classic Western tale of revenge and the lengths one man will go to for it. Smith is a young half-Native American, whose parents are brutally murdered for their gold. He sets out to find and kill the men immediately, but runs into some trouble with three men he mistakes as the killers...
In the 1930s, The Cincinnati Kid wanders from one big poker game to the next, looking to beat the best poker players that he can find and charming any women he sees along the way. When legendary card player, Lancey Howard, comes to New Orleans, it's The Kid's chance to beat the best poker player in the world - if he's good enough. If you replace a ...
"Doc" McCoy is denied parole, despite being a model prisoner, but is granted it after his wife meets with a businessman who sits on the parole committee. As a condition for his release, the businessman wants him to rob a bank. However, McCoy was set up for a double-cross, so he takes the money and heads for the Mexico Border to safety. It won't be ...
A village of poor farmers is being regularly terrorized and robbed by an army of bandits, lead by the villainous Calvera(Eli Wallach). The bandits only leave them barely enough food to survive and many of the villagers have had enough. A pair set out to find gunfighters for hire. After witnessing Chris Adams (Yul Brynner) and Vin Tanner (Steve McQu...
When looking at Steve McQueen's Western legacy, it's no surprise that his popular TV show would make the list. McQueen plays a Civil War veteran turned bounty hunter, who wanders from town to town hunting down bad guys. Fans of classic Westerns and McQueen still have reverence for the series that ended his career as a TV actor and helped make him a...
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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.
- THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) Directed by John Sturges. Screenplay by William Roberts, based on ‘Seven Samurai’ by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni.
- THE GETAWAY (1972) Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Screenplay by Walter Hill, based on the novel by Jim Thompson. Starring Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers.
The Hunter holds a 46% approval rating based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10 on Rotten Tomatoes. [ 11] In Leonard Maltin 's publication, TV Movies, the film is given a BOMB rating, and the entry states, "McQueen's last picture and probably his worst".
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.
Jun 28, 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 ...
Aug 1, 1980 · The Hunter: Directed by Buzz Kulik. With Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton. Bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson is receiving death threats from a criminal he helped put away.
