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Tom Horn

See him before he sees you.

6.4(138)19801h 34m2

A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$9M
Language
English
  • hero
  • ranch
  • trial
  • shootout
  • one man army
  • brutality
  • justice
  • rustler

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR28 Mar 1980
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatricale 141 Jan 1981
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical26 Apr 1980
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatricale 1431 Jul 1980

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Tom Horn was released on 28 March 1980.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    9/22/2019

    7/10

    Someday, you're going to have to pay for your way of life, Tom. Tom Horn is directed by William Wiard and adapted to screenplay by Thomas McGuane and Bud Schrake from Horn's own autobiography. It stars Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush and Slim Pickens. Music is by Ernest Gold and cinematography by John A. Alonzo. Plot finds McQueen as legendary army tracker - turned hired gun - …

  • W

    Wuchak

    11/17/2020

    6/10

    _**The passing of the Old West with Steve McQueen**_ The legendary Tom Horn was a cowboy, a scout, a stage coach worker, a soldier assisting with the capture of Geronimo, a Pinkerton, a range detective and he fought at The Battle of San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. In 1901 he rides into the Wyoming Territory at 40 years of age where he is hired to kill rustlers, but is eventually accused of shoot…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    3/9/2026

    7/10

    This has the look of a labour of love to it for the clearly ailing Steve McQueen as he plays the ill-fated scout turned enforcer and the nineteenth century comes to it’s end. Horn has been drafted in by some local cattle barons to help thwart rustling, but what he doesn’t appreciate is that he is just another tool for ambitious men and despite the advice of the benign Coble (Richard Farnsworth), most of this communit…

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