Tom Horn (1980)

John Chard

7.0

Sep 22, 2019

Someday, you're going to have to pay for your way of life, Tom. Tom Horn is directed by William Wiard and adapted to screenplay by Thomas McGuane and Bud Schrake from Horn's own autobiography. It stars Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush and Slim Pickens. Music is by Ernest Gold and cinematography by John A. Alonzo. Plot finds McQueen as legendary army tracker - turned hired gun - Tom Horn, who is hired by Wyoming ranchers to see off cattle rustlers, only to see them turn against him when his methods threaten their reputation. As a big fan of both Western…

Wuchak

6.0

Nov 17, 2020

_**The passing of the Old West with Steve McQueen**_ The legendary Tom Horn was a cowboy, a scout, a stage coach worker, a soldier assisting with the capture of Geronimo, a Pinkerton, a range detective and he fought at The Battle of San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. In 1901 he rides into the Wyoming Territory at 40 years of age where he is hired to kill rustlers, but is eventually accused of shooting a 14 year-old shepherd boy, a crime for which most authorities believe he was framed. "Tom Horn" (1980) was reportedly a troubled production. Steve McQueen in the title rol…

CinemaSerf

7.0

Mar 9, 2026

This has the look of a labour of love to it for the clearly ailing Steve McQueen as he plays the ill-fated scout turned enforcer and the nineteenth century comes to it’s end. Horn has been drafted in by some local cattle barons to help thwart rustling, but what he doesn’t appreciate is that he is just another tool for ambitious men and despite the advice of the benign Coble (Richard Farnsworth), most of this community would have no compunction in using him for his skills with a gun then surrendering him up, like a lamb to the slaughter, when his usefulness ended. That scenario emerges after he…