The Hunter

Steve McQueen was diagnosed with cancer the month after filming had ended. He first began to suspect his condition in the autumn of 1979, while he was shooting scenes for this film on location in Chicago.

About 44 minutes in, Ralph Thorson takes delivery of a rental car. It's a 1980 Pontiac Trans Am; a true "muscle car" in its day. It's apparent by the way Ralph is driving that it has a stick shift manual transmission, not an automatic transmission. By US law, all rental cars must have automatic transmissions (except for exotic cars such as Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsches and the like).

The US release features a score by French composer Michel Legrand, one sequence is scored by 'Charles Bernstein'. The European dubbed versions (in French, Spanish, Italian, and German) feature only the music of 'Charles Bernstein'. Omitted in these versions are also the passages of source music from McQueen's/Papa's radio (Opera). The region 1 DVD made by Paramount for the US market features only the American version. The region 2 DVD also made by Paramount, this time for the European market, features both scores: Legrand's score on the English language track, Bernstein's score on the tracks in Spanish, French, Italian, and German.

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