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This is an attractive and highly absorbing film of an proper fresh day bounty hunter “Pappy” Thorson played by Steve McQueen in one of his best roles. McQueen gives an sterling performance of the aging bounty hunter that has outlived his usefulness and is out of status in the recent concrete world. One poignant scene has McQueen and Ben Johnson exchanging dialogue between two worn lawmen. This was Steve McQueen’s last film and you can detect a sense of better days long gone by. Yet he went out in the vein as the chilly man of action that he was best associated. This was probably Buzz Kulik’s finest directorial achievement as well. Kulik never seemed to live up to his potential, but this is his best pain. Kulik was able to accumulate immense performances from the actors and earn a camaraderie that can be felt on the hide. The cast also included Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold and LeVar Burton. Composer Michel Legrand who scored “The Thomas Crown Affair” was brought in to get this last film for McQueen. This film was a primary failure. I beg to differ. Smart a limited about the type of man Steve McQueen was this film demonstrates his huge ability as an actor and a actual human being. He knew the slay was come and he wanted to go out the same door he came in.
This was Steve McQueens’ last film and is not generally held in high regard by critics and fans alike. However, it is an attractive mix of comedy and action with an array of memorable characters that the viewer will remember. McQueen plays Ralph “Papa” Thorson, a new day bounty hunter that will expend practically any means to steal bail jumpers. ( The sincere Ralph Thorson has a cameo in the film as a bartender) Though McQueen was ill at the time of production,( he allegedly only found out of his terminal condition after checking into the hospital after filming was completed) he gives a multilayered performance which shows his high degree of skill as an actor. There are of course some edifying action sequences, but what is more entertaining is the subtle/low key humour that McQueen employs to round out his character: he is shown to be a dreadful driver in the movie, while in trusty life he was come professional level. Also his esteem of antiques shows his faded school obsessions and distrust of the unique world. ” Anything current is not friendly.” he states rather ruefully. There is a sweet subplot where his girlfriend( Kathryn Harrold) is preparing to have their child which collides with the scary main space where a old-fashioned quarry turns the tables on McQueen and comes after him for revenge. Eli Wallach is very funny in a supporting role as a bail bondsman, as Levar Burton is as a bail jumper who is befriended by McQueen and starts hanging around his house. Mixed in along the diagram are several other scenes which demonstrate the professionalism and determination of McQueens’ character to carry out his job, but detached remain an just and decent man at the extinguish of the day. One in particular is very disturbing where a cop friend of McQueens’ gets into deep anxiety and can only inspect a violent solution to his predicament. In 1980, I was on a plane from Novel York to Chicago when Valid Morning America showed a clip from this fair released film. It was very moving to me that when I observed the fellow passengers( practically all of them were businessmen in suits fiddling with reports and calculators) they were simply hypnotized by Steve McQueens’ presense when with gun in hand, he confronts a would be escapee with grit and comic humuor. I kind of felt then that they were thinking: ” Yeah, I wish I was doing something like that and was this guy.” So in summary, ” The Hunter” is a well made action film/character peep which caps the substantial Steve McQueens’ career. Audiences will also indulge in the subtle/sly comedy which is very deftly worked into the film. Thankyou Mr. McQueen. Your work will not be forgotten.
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