Tom Horn (1980) on Netflix
R19801h 38mBiographyCrimeDrama
A legendary army scout who helped capture Geronimo drifts into Wyoming, where rancher John Coble hires him to drive off cattle rustlers. Schoolteacher Glendolene Kimmel takes an interest in him.
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Plot summary
Tom Horn, a frontier scout whose reputation comes from the Apache wars and the capture of Geronimo, drifts into Wyoming at the turn of the century. A saloon toast to Geronimo's picture instead of prizefighter Jim Corbett earns him a beating, and he wakes in a livery stable. Rancher John Coble, who saw the fight, offers him shelter and then work: the grazing association wants its cattle rustling stopped. On the ride out they stop at Brown's Hole, where a rustler fires at Coble's boots and tells him to dance; Tom shoots the man in the foot. At the association picnic Coble presents him as a legendary tracker, Marshal Joe Belle tells him rustlers can be brought to trial or shot, and schoolteacher Glendolene Kimmel, originally from Hawaii, teases him about his first lobster.
Cast
- Peter Canonas Assistant Prosecutor
- James Klineas Arlo Chance
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tom Horn (1980)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Since the troubled production of An Enemy of the People, Steve McQueen had struggled to find work: he priced himself out of a Towering Inferno sequel and Raise the Titanic, was rejected for the Salkinds' Superman film due to his growing weight, and turned down a role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- McQueen ordered several rewrites to the script, while original director Don Siegel left, to be replaced first by Elliot Silverstein, then by James William Guercio, who was fired by McQueen after three days.
- McQueen wanted to direct, but Directors Guild of America rules forbidding actors from taking over direction once filming had begun scotched those plans, so TV movie director William Wiard was brought in to finish it; it was Wiard's only credit directing a feature film.
- Although filming ended without problems, during production McQueen had trouble breathing and was later found to have malignant mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer. He filmed his last movie, The Hunter, released just three months before his death on November 7.
