The Bounty Man

Name: The Bounty Man
Genre: Western
Released: 1972-10-31
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Clint Walker, Richard Basehart, John Ericson

TV Movie
1972
TV-PG
1h 13m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

249

YOUR RATING

Western

A bounty hunter goes after a wanted man but contends with rival bounty hunters who want the reward for themselves.A bounty hunter goes after a wanted man but contends with rival bounty hunters who want the reward for themselves.A bounty hunter goes after a wanted man but contends with rival bounty hunters who want the reward for themselves.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

249

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Goofs
In one scene, a knife is shown that is a modern-day Buck knife. This model is called a "folding hunter", which has a 4.5-inch blade. Buck, the manufacturer, was not founded until 1902.

Soundtracks
Bounty Man
Written by Jerry Riopelle, Stuart Margolin and Murray MacLeod

User reviews13

Review

Featured review

6/10

OK western but nothing special

What's all this about "Two rival bounty hunters are after the same killer, but find they have to join together to fight off his gang"?

I guess someone was watching another film. This one's about an embittered widower who takes up bounty hunting as he searches for the man who ran off with his wife and then deserted her. "The same killer" is a young outlaw who's got it together with a saloon girl who tags along after Clint Walker has snatched him from a rough township. He's got no gang, though there is a bunch of roughnecks who want to relieve Walker of his prisoner.

There are some similarities to "The Ride Back", which treats better the relationship between captor and captive, and to "The Bravados", both of which I prefer. The changes in the relationships between the three members of Walker's party are unconvincing if not unexpected, and the ending is a bit of an anticlimax.