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Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens, Peter Canon, Elisha Cook Jr., Geoffrey Lewis, Mickey Jones, Mel Novak (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Wyoming im Jahr 1901: Immer wieder machen Viehdiebe den Ranchern das Leben zur Hölle. Erst der kaltblütige Scout und Kopfgeldjäger Tom Horn, der eines Tages zufällig in der Gegend vorbeikommt und sich dort niederlässt, zeigt den Dieben mit harter Hand Grenzen auf. Bald schon neiden ihm viele den Erfolg und versuchen, Horn eine Falle zu stellen. (TNT Film)
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Tom Horn is a film that is important for two reasons. It marks the end of the film career of the legend of American cinema, Steve McQueen, and at the same time, it is a film that symbolically finishes one era of the western genre. After its realization, American studios avoided westerns for the entire decade and only returned to the genre with the famous Dances with Wolves. From both perspectives, it is a somewhat tired film. McQueen, as a great professional, acts fine, but he is missing his famous spark. You can simply feel that he must be battling hard with himself and his illness. As for the script and implementation, it is a standard average film that will not stay in my head for long, and the only fundamental question that came to my mind while watching was astonishment at the complicated and potentially risky path chosen by his employers to remove Horn. It would have been much easier to offer financial "compensation" or a bullet to the head. Overall impression: 55%.
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