This is unfairly forgotten western from the decade were western were slowly dying until the 1985. " Tom Horn" deserves more praise , since this is a good western and one of last movies of Steve McQueen. It's his last good movie.The movie is full of brilliant dialogues. I don't remember when was the last time I have seen a movie where almost every exchange is intelligent and funny. The movie is worth watching for the dialogues alone.The story is a little predictable , but the movie is well directed by William Wiard and grips you from start to finish. I felt sad at the end and that was the whole point.The movie made me sad , because it was not only the goodbye to Tom Horn, but also to Steve McQueen ("Papillon") . Both were heroes from the past that were slowly dying in a changing world that didn't need them. McQueen did make one more movie after this one , but for me this is his good bye. A good movie and a great farewell to wonderful actor.I give it 7/10.

This is another one of those movies that I have vague memories of having seen when I was a kid. I probably did since my father always watched any western that was shown on TV. My vague memories also include not being too thrilled about this movie at the time and this is maybe not so surprising. After all this movie is quite sad and contains several plot elements that I really dislike: our hero is downright stupid, he is betrayed, journalist falsifies reality, lawyer with political ambitions gets hero sentenced, hero dies. All of it certainly not really my cup of tea.Now I could appreciate a movie like that if it was really well done but I do not think it was. The acting is pretty much standard Hollywood fare. That is, nothing to write home about. Sometimes the scenery in these Western movies can be really breathtaking but not really in this movie. The fights and shootouts are generally quite silly and not very well done. The story just plows on in a simple linear fashion towards the inevitable sad ending.What bugs me the most, apart from the crooked journalists and lawyers of course, are the fact that Tom Horn is downright stupid. He walks around in some country boy fog with a silly look on his face for most of the movie. He doesn't understand the fix he is in and he certainly do not cooperate in any way to get out of it. When he finally manages to escape jail, for a very short period of time, he barely walks out of town before he drops the jacket he stole, displaying a white shirt so that he can be spotted as easily as possible, and proceeds to run straight out onto the grassland without a hiding place in sight. That was just so stupid! No, this movie is definitely not my cup of tea.

This picture was released in theaters on March 28 1980 starring Steve McQueen as Tom Horn Linda Evans as Glendolene Kimmel, and Richard Farnsworth as John C Coble. He grew up in the violence of the Old West. He became a cowboy, rode shotgun for the stage line, was an agent with the Pinkertons and fought with Rough Riders under Teddy Roosevelt. He made his reputation as a cavalry scout by bringing in Geronimo in the bloody Apache wars. In 1901, he made his to Wyoming Territory and this man name was Tom Horn. Tom is open country of Wyoming drinking coffee, and watching animals move on Wyoming Territory. Later in the day, Tom drifts into and drops his horse of at the stables. He tells the keeper to take care of his horse and if things go wrong, he'll sleep in the same stall as his horse. After getting into a fight, Tom wakes up in the same stall with his horse just like he said he would. Along comes John C Coble who's interested in hiring Tom for a special job. John Coble owns one of the biggest ranch in the Wyoming territory. Therefore, John offers Tom a good job and a place to put his head every night along with good meals to feel his stomach. Therefore, John and Tom start riding out of town when the stop at a local watering hole to give there horses a chance to drink some water. John lets Tom know that some of the cattle that are in the corral pen are his. After John gets of his horse some outlaws sitting on the porch start to play music and they want John to dance. However, John isn't interested in dancing so the outlaws start shooting at his feet. Tom starts shooting back and they booth ride off towards Cobles Ranch. The next day Tom starts his new job and later in the day, John introduces Tom to the Cattlemen Association. It turns out that John is a member of the Association and they want to hire John. After dinner Tom is introduce to Glendolene Kimmel who's the local school teacher. Tom is told that he's to do anything he has to get rid of the cattle rustlers that are plaguing the cattlemen's association. That brings me to some questions that need to be answered. Is Tom able to get the job done that the cattlemen's association wants him to do? Is the schoolteacher interested in Tom as Much as Tom is interested in the schoolteacher? Here are some personal thoughts of my own on the movie. I thought Steve McQueen was great in his role as Tom Horn. Some actors when they play a hero like Tom Horn let it go to their head and Steve McQueen was nowhere close to that. I do think that the movie could've used some more action in it but it wasn't bad they way it was. The reason I bought the movie was for Linda Evans. I was disappointed for time she received and I thought she deserved better. Based on that and the fact that there was no real leading woman I give this picture 6 weasel stars.

The saga of Tom Horn - a real-life "enforcer" of Old West days - held a particular fascination for another legend. Hollywood icon Steve McQueen starred in and executive-produced what would be his next-to-last movie, a gritty, exciting recreation of Horn's latter-day career in a turn-of-the-century West where gentler ways supplanted the law of the gun - and Horn would be an unwitting victim of that change.Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush and Slim Pickens head a strong cast in a film capturing the essence of a time when a man's word was only as good as his guns or fists. Shot on serenely beautiful Arizona locations, Tom Horn indelibly brings to life one of the West's truly unsung heroes.McQueen's Tom Horn remains to me an unfairly dismissed film. Not only do we have excellent performance from Steve McQueen, but the rest of cast (especially Richard Farnsworth), put in emotionally charged performances. The film is also littered with excellent action sequences such as the violent gun battle at the farm ranch and the attack on the cattle rustlers as they attempt to gun down Horn. The film also built up genuine suspense towards the end and the audience really felt sympathy for the Horn character, a quality hard to find in films of today.The script was also at times sharp and was humorous (look at the great scene between Horn and the soon to be Heavy Weight Champion of the World) and it really complemented McQueen's acting performance.The film boasts excellent photography, shot on beautiful Arizona locations (the hills, the sky, the sunset) and direction from William Wiard. Also worth a mention is the costumes which give the film that extra bit of authenticity and the music which assists in building up the suspense From its realistic shootouts to the pounding musical score. From the lush photography to the dark humour... Tom Horn remains an underrated film of excellence which any fan of Steve McQueen or Western's should not miss out on...