The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nTom Horn was famous in his own time.\u00a0 But his time has passed.\u00a0 Known for his skills as a frontiersman, a U.S. Army scout, a tracker, and a crack shot… Horn is now a drifter.\u00a0 The Indian Wars are over.\u00a0 A man with Tom Horn’s skills aren’t in demand.\u00a0 So Horn just drifted from place to place scrapping by.<\/p>\n
Horn is in a small town, when he meets cattle rancher John Coble.\u00a0 Coble is impressed with Horn’s legend and surprised to find him without work and struggling.\u00a0 He offers Horn a job.\u00a0 Coble is a member of a Cattle Rancher Association that has been plagued by rustlers.\u00a0 The Association agrees to hire Horn to rid the territory of cattle thieves… by whatever means needed.\u00a0 Horn is assured by the group as well as the US Marshall that once he gives the rustlers fair warning, he is legally allowed to do whatever it takes to get rid of them.\u00a0 Horn takes the job.<\/p>\n
Horn does what he was hired to do.\u00a0 He rids the area of rustlers.\u00a0 His methods are violent but effective.\u00a0 Many men are killed.\u00a0 The rustling stops.\u00a0 The Cattle Association\u00a0 no longer needs Horn.\u00a0 Especially since they’ve been getting bad press.\u00a0 When a young boy is found murdered by a rifle shot of the same caliber that Tom Horn uses,\u00a0 some Association members see a way out.<\/p>\n
Horn is set up to take the fall for the murder.<\/p>\n
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nTom Horn<\/em> was a troubled production.\u00a0 Steve McQueen wasn’t happy with the script and ordered multiple rewrites.\u00a0 The original director, Don Siegel decided to move on.\u00a0 Siegel was replaced by replaced by Elliot Silverstein.\u00a0 Silverstein was replaced by James William Guercio.\u00a0 McQueen fired Guercio after just three days.\u00a0 McQueen wanted to direct, but since filming had started, union rules prevented an actor to replace a director.\u00a0 So William Wiard, a television director was brought in to finish filming.\u00a0 Tom Horn is the only feature film on Wiard’s resume.\u00a0 Many believe that McQueen directed much of the movie himself.<\/p>\nIn addition to the troubles listed above, Steve McQueen’s health was suffering.\u00a0 He was often short of breath and towards the end of filming even began coughing up blood.\u00a0 McQueen would learn that he had advanced cancer.\u00a0 Just a couple of weeks before Tom Horn<\/em> premiered, The National Enquirer<\/em> broke the story that Steve McQueen had terminal cancer.\u00a0 When asked at the premiere, McQueen denied reports of his cancer.<\/p>\nTom Horn was a real-life legend.\u00a0 The movie is based on his autobiography that he wrote while in jail awaiting trial.<\/p>\n
Tom Horn <\/strong><\/em>(1980)\u00a0rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\")
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