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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 1, 1980 |
Starring:
Ben Johnson, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ray Bickel, Richard Venture, Steve McQueen, Teddy Wilson, Thomas Rosales Jr., Tracey Walter
Summary:
The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson (Steve McQueen).
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Buzz Kulik has directed some slam-bang chases, but their effectiveness is blunted by a script that meanders between the bounty hunter's missions and a boring relationship with his housemate (Kathryn Harrold), who is heavy with child. [12 Aug 1980]
Because McQueen can be so effective in action pictures, The Hunter is all the more frustrating: Didn't anybody point out that the script was a mess that made no sense? Didn't anybody have the guts to? Maybe they thought superstar McQueen would save the day. Pictures like this could finish him off.
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All of this may be based on fact, but as presented in the cutesy script by Ted Leighton and Peter Hyams, it has the hollow ring of counterfeit coin and the formulaic symmetry of a made-for-TV movie. [11 Aug 1980, p.69]
An exceptionally clumsy, unpleasant action-melodrama. [1 Aug 1980, p.C12]
Even this garbage-can world deserves a better grade of junk. [7 Aug 1980, p.B4]
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