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Tom Horn
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Director:
Writers:
Thomas McGuane (screenplay) and
Bud Shrake (screenplay)
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Release Date:
28 March 1980 (USA) more
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See him before he sees you more
Plot:
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for... more | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
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Actually a better film than advertised more (34 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Steve McQueen ... Tom Horn
Linda Evans ... Glendolene Kimmel

Richard Farnsworth ... John C. Coble
Billy Green Bush ... U.S. Marshal Joe Belle
Slim Pickens ... Sheriff Sam Creedmore
Peter Canon ... Assistant Prosecutor
Elisha Cook Jr. ... Stablehand (as Elisha Cook)
Roy Jenson ... Lee Mendenhour
James Kline ... Arlo Chance

Geoffrey Lewis ... Walter Stoll

Harry Northup ... Thomas Burke
Steve Oliver ... 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett
Bill Thurman ... Ora Haley
Bert Williams ... Judge
Bobby Bass ... Corbett's Bodyguard
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Runtime:
98 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Australia:M | Spain:13 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:15 (video rating) (cut) | UK:AA (original rating) (cut) | Singapore:PG | Iceland:12 | West Germany:12 (f) | Germany:12 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | USA:R
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Filmed at the beginning of 1979, this was the last film Steve McQueen made before he was diagnosed with cancer. more
Quotes:
Tom Horn: Listen, why are you hangin' around with me?
Glendolene Kimmel: Because you are a link to the Old West.
Tom Horn: If you really knew how dirty and raggedy-assed the Old West was, you wouldn't want any part of it.
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Actually a better film than advertised, 14 January 2004
Author: Virgil_Hilts_1964 from United States

I often wonder how pre video audiences were able to take in the full effect and minor nuances of films as we can today. Watching a film again and again allows one to really study the work and pick up the director's deep intent for character and plot.

Watching Tom Horn a few times allows one to see that it really is a good movie. And after more than 20 years in motion pictures, McQueen finally just fits into his role, and does not "act" or play Steve McQueen.

The first scenes are excellent. McQueen establishes his character as a man who knows, and has seen most of, what the west is about. He knows who he is, and what he's accomplished, so he doesn't need to brag. The way he virtually walks into a fight in the bar with the pompous British fighter and his manager is superb. "Well, if he ain't won the fight yet, then he ain't the champ yet" is delivered with believable aplomb. When he says the guy's mother would have to stand on his shoulders just to kiss Geronimo's ass it is priceless. Especially good is his question "OK, if I win this fight, then does that make ME champion of the world?" He knows he is going to get his butt kicked but does all this for principle's sake. His running out the door and yelling oh s***, then throwing the plate of food at the fighter is one of the better acting sequences done anywhere.

His work as the stock detective is classic McQueen without his earlier years of mugging and panning. Good stuff.

The open spaces of this film, and Horn's subsequent incarceration gave me a feeling of freedom and claustrophobia. It worked well

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