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  • 1983
  • PG
  • Orion Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 1983
  • PG
  • Orion Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary The classic renegade Texas Ranger goes to war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they each love.

Directed By: Steve Carver

Written By: B.J. Nelson, H. Kaye Dyal

  • 1983
  • PG
  • Orion Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 1983
  • PG
  • Orion Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m

Lone Wolf McQuade

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary The classic renegade Texas Ranger goes to war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they each love.

Directed By: Steve Carver

Written By: B.J. Nelson, H. Kaye Dyal

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This is an action movie. It makes no apology for that. But it's high-style action.
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Writer B.J. Nelson has skillfully combined plot elements and situations which draw from the best of Westerns and anti-Establishment cop films.
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70
Fans of Soldier of Fortune magazine will think they've been ambushed and blown away to heaven by Lone Wolf McQuade. Every conceivable type of portable weapon on the world market is tried out by the macho warriors on both sides of the law in this modern western.
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The plot, set in and around El Paso, is unimportant and nonstop, like an old-fashioned, Saturday afternoon serial, which isn't at all bad. Steve Carver, the director, understands that in such films action is content.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
50
Lone Wolf gets mad as a bee-stung boxer dog. [18 Apr 1983]
By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW
50
This is one of the better Norris action films, showcasing his astounding martial-arts skills. But the film loses power toward the end when the action bends reality a little too much.
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40
As senseless violence goes, this is very senseless and very violent. Norris is a Texas Ranger, Carradine an oily Senator smuggling weapons to 'Central American terrorists', but the storyline has more non sequiturs than bodies, which is saying something.
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Production Company 1818 Productions, Cinema '84, Lone Wolf McQuade Associates, Topkick Productions
Release Date Apr 15, 1983
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating PG
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Tagline Whether it comes to fighting...or loving...or killing...There's NO ONE like J.J. McQuade.
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