Tom Horn (1980)
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64% of users liked it
(2,831 ratings)
Steve McQueen's penultimate film deals with a fascinating western legend, founded on an insightful script by Thomas McGuane and Bud Shrake. Unfortunately, the film was done in by the five directors --Don Siegel, Elliot Silverstein, James Guercio, William Wiard, and McQueen himself-- that were,… More Steve McQueen's penultimate film deals with a fascinating western legend, founded on an insightful script by Thomas McGuane and Bud Shrake. Unfortunately, the film was done in by the five directors --Don Siegel, Elliot Silverstein, James Guercio, William Wiard, and McQueen himself-- that were, at one point or another, attached to the project. The film deals with the infamous Texas gunslinger Tom Horn. Horn gained fame for a variety of exploits; he served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders and was the Pinkerton detective who captured the notorious outlaw Peg Leg Watson. But as Tom Horn begins, something in Horn (Steve McQueen) has snapped. Tom quits the Pinkertons and hires himself out to rancher John Coble (Richard Farnsworth) to assist him in putting an end to his problems with the local homesteaders and rustlers. But Horn performers his job with a chilling intensity, killing so many people with such bloodthirsty rage that it is even too much for Coble and the ranchers to take. When Horn's violence cannot be stopped, Coble has to take the law into his own hands to put a halt to Horn's bloodbath. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- William Wiard
- Written By
- Thomas McGuane, Bud Shrake, Edwin
- Genres
- Western, Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance
R,
- In Theaters
- Mar 28, 1980 Wide
- Studio
- WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Beautiful to look at but the story never develops into the elegant and hard-hitting film it could have been.
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Rory L. Aronsky, Film Threat
In its moments of beauty, Tom Horn becomes an entirely different Western...
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Cast
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Steve McQueen
as Tom Horn
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Richard Farnsworth
as John Coble
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Linda Evans
as Glendolene Kimmel
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Billy Green Bush
as Joe Belle
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Slim Pickens
as Sam Creedmore
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Elisha Cook Jr.
as Stable Hand
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Peter Canon
as Assistant Prosecutor
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Roy Jenson
as Mendenhour
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Mickey Jones
as Brown's Hole Rustler
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Richard Kennedy
as John Cleveland
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James Kline
as Arlo Chance
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Geoffrey Lewis
as Walter Stoll
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Harry Northrup
as Burke
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Bill Thurman
as Ora Hale
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B.J. Ward
as Cattle Baron
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Bert Williams
as Judge
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Bobby Bass
as Corbett's Bodyguard
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Steven Oliver
as Gentleman Jim Corbett
- Harry Northup
- Steve Mc Queen
