Tom Horn

1980 "See him before he sees you."
6.8| 1h34m| R| en| More Info
Released: 28 March 1980 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.

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Diagonaldi Very well executed
Jacomedi A Surprisingly Unforgettable Movie!
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
Maziun This is unfairly forgotten western from the decade were western were slowly dying until the 1985. " Tom Horn" deserves more praise , since this is a good western and one of last movies of Steve McQueen. It's his last good movie.The movie is full of brilliant dialogues. I don't remember when was the last time I have seen a movie where almost every exchange is intelligent and funny. The movie is worth watching for the dialogues alone.The story is a little predictable , but the movie is well directed by William Wiard and grips you from start to finish. I felt sad at the end and that was the whole point.The movie made me sad , because it was not only the goodbye to Tom Horn, but also to Steve McQueen ("Papillon") . Both were heroes from the past that were slowly dying in a changing world that didn't need them. McQueen did make one more movie after this one , but for me this is his good bye. A good movie and a great farewell to wonderful actor.I give it 7/10.
TOMASBBloodhound Tom Horn is one of the last pictures ever made by Steve McQueen. It is unfortunate that it fails to completely engage the audience or sustain any real drama. McQueen looks frail and doesn't bring much life to the title character. The writing is amateurish, the direction pedestrian, and there isn't a lot of action. There were apparently five different directors used, and that is a shame. The fellow they finally decided on appears to have spent much of his career in television, and you can tell by the way he fades out like they're going to a commercial after some scenes. McQueen's ego is listed as the reason for the project going through so many directors. I'd love to have seen what Eastwood could do with a story like this....Tom Horn is largely based on true events. Horn is a famous Indian scout and interpreter who has built up a very worthy reputation by the early 1900s. The West by then had toned itself down quite a bit, and a man like Horn who shoots first and asks questions later finds himself on the wrong end of the law by the end of the first hour. Horn has been hired by ranchers to stop cattle rustling which has really been a problem in the part of Wyoming depicted in this film. Horn blows away several rustlers, and is soon framed for shooting a fifteen year old boy in cold blood by local politicians who want his brand of justice outlawed. Horn is facing the death penalty with what appears to be flimsy evidence against him. We quickly learn however, that Horn has no intention of lowering himself to the point of defending his name in the ludicrous show trial devised by power-hungry local officials. When asked to refute the evidence in court, Horn simply looks off to the mountains on the horizon and answers the questions in maddeningly vague terms. The long trip to the gallows in the last half hour of this film is as frustrating for the viewer as the dopey romantic subplot told to us in flashbacks.Horn's motivations for seemingly laying down and allowing this miscarriage of justice to happen are not all that compelling. If he is willing to risk his life in an escape attempt (which he does try), then why won't he try harder to clear his name in court??? What is his fascination with the handful of tiny Indian charms he holds in his hands all the way up to the gallows? What is his motivation for killing so many men who steal the cattle of others? Is he just a mean old SOB like some claim? Hard to say on all accounts.The film is worth about five stars. Most of them for the cinematography which is very, very good! The Hound.
Nazi_Fighter_David Directed by William Wiard and based on a true story, "Tom Horn" opens in 1901, in Wyoming, where McQueen meets John C. Coble (Richard Farnsworth) who offered him to ease up at his place for a while… Tom accepted, but he said I'd to earn my keep… Seeing Horn with great ability with a rifle, and after speaking with the Association, John asks him to eliminate the rustlers who have completely wiped out their herd profits not to mention what the buzzards and the predators have done to their cash crops… But after one incident has disturbed the Association in town, and the rustling has stopped, they determined to get rid of Horn forgetting he was only doing what they hired him to do… Mc Queen plays well the Indian tracker "scared to death of lobster, the man of the West "afraid to lose his freedom and not be able to get back up in those hills again." Linda Evans is appealing as the school teacher from Hawaii who saw a man of the Old West trying to live in the New… Richard Farnsworth is the loyal friend John C. Coble who was quite sure that Tom never killed that kid… John advices him not to try to break out of the jail… He knows he can do it, but it's just admitting his guilt if he tries… Billy Green Bush is the U.S. Marshal Joe Belle who asks the newspaperman to sit behind the door and write lying down what he hears real good… Slims Pickens is the old Sheriff Sam Creed who arrested Tom… With a legendary hero, great photography and good direction "Tom Horn" is very good Western to watch
jcohen1 Saw the movie last nite for the second time in my life. Always been a big McQueen fan. This really is his first lead in a western since Nevada Smith. Slim Pickens is on hand again in a small role ( post The Getaway) and 180 degrees from One Eyed Jacks. Linda Evans is eye candy but won't stand by her man. Richard Farnsworth does a nice turn as a cattleman set up by his associates to screw the stock detective that is Tom Horn. These oldtimers sure put a lot of faith in a man's word or his handshake. No contracts back then. Horn is a man living and dying by his own rules. Fed up with what he has become and abandoned by the woman who could give him reason to go on, he accepts his punishment. That I believe answers the question why he won't put up a fight against the heinous murder charges he faces. Thank goodness it now usually takes forensic evidence to convict a man of murder. A fitting end of a career is this western role for Steve.