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The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.
In order to track down bail jumpers, Ralph 'Papa' Thorson goes on a series of routine and not-so-routine searches. Sometimes he takes down his quarry easily. At other times, he's forced to extreme measures which result in the injury or death of a lawbreaker. And then again, there are other moments when his own life is on the line. It's all enough to make Thorson question what he has done with his life.
Buzz Kulik's The Hunter is a slow moving action flick about America's last bounty hunter played by a tired looking Steve McQueen in his last role. The story is thin and for most parts television like episodic. Most characters are just out of the cardboard cabinet, the acting seems adequate.

This said, I have to admit I like the movie's and especially McQueen's relaxed rhythm and the ironic approach to the subject, which is reflected by the unpolished cinematography, the tv like editing and the music.

Which brings us to the one oddity of the production that separates it from similar films: the soundtrack. The original English language version of The Hunter features a musical score by French composer Michel Legrand who also did The Thomas Crown Affair and Le Mans for McQueen. Only one sequence in this version was scored by Charles Bernstein (who later in the eighties composed the score for A Nightmare On Elmstreet). Both composers are credited, Legrand during the main credits and on the poster arts for the US market, Bernstein during the end credits.

Most European Versions of The Hunter -at least the dubbed ones for Italy, Spain, France and Germany- feature a score done all alone by Bernstein, he also got main credit. And this soundtrack is -by all means- the one to be preferred. Like McQueen's acting, the unrushed editing and the slow development of the story (if there's any to speak of) it's totally of the school of cool (rhythm intended).

Its main theme with its mixture of elements of Jazz, Blues, Swing and deeply rooted country style gives the movie not only rhythm, it also structures it and keeps it on track through repetition and variation in the transition sequences. And there are a lot. It also reflects the irony which saves the film from being just out of touch with its time of production.

The US version has no musical main theme to speak of, most transition sequences have no music at all or just source music from McQueen's radio (Opera) which doesn't fit the mood of the movie. This also can be said from Legrand's score with its orchestral approach. Watching The Hunter with Legrand's score you get the impression the music was composed for a totally different movie twenty years ago. It's kitschy approach would fit a soap opera or a romantic love story of the sixties but no action movie.

Paramount must felt the same way. Obviously they couldn't change the music for the US release(maybe it was too late, maybe because of legal reasons, maybe because McQueen decided to use Legrand's music) but at least they did the right thing with the European versions: This is one movie that was saved by it's (alternate) music. And you can tell just by comparing the versions available.

By the way, the region 1 DVD made by Paramount for the US market features only the American version. The region 2 DVD also made by Paramount, this time for the European market, features both scores: Legrand's score on the English language track, Bernstein's score on the tracks in Spanish, French, Italian, and German.

Unfortunately, I don't know if there's an English language track with Bernstein's score available but I doubt it. Steve McQueen's farewell performance in The Hunter is a fine action thriller based on the true story of Ralph 'Pappy' Thorsen, bounty hunter and scourge of bail jumpers everywhere or at least those in and around the Chicago area.

It's interesting how the film builds up the level of difficulty of McQueen's cases. His first case was bringing in LeVar Burton who was between the two roles that made his career, in Roots as Kunte Kinte and in Star Trek the Next Generation as Geordi LaForge. The two of them hit it off so well that when Burton's charges are dismissed, he goes to work for McQueen.

The film itself builds up gradually to McQueen's last two cases where the action in the last 25 minutes doesn't let up at all, almost like an Indiana Jones film. There's a fine action sequence involving pursuit on the Chicago Metro and later in a parking lot with McQueen trying to apprehend Thomas Rosales, Jr. who is one real psycho. And then McQueen has to deal with Tracey Walter, a psycho out to kill him who kidnaps McQueens's pregnant girl friend Kathryn Harrold. Walter makes Rosales look like Cary Grant, in fact it was the best psycho act since Steve Ihnat in Madigan.

Always a pleasure in any film is Eli Wallach, reunited with McQueen from one of McQueen's earliest triumphs in The Magnificent Seven. Wallach plays the bail bondsman who hires McQueen's services and is his friend and confidante.

McQueen's last illness came on him with suddenness, though he looks his 50 years, he doesn't look ill in The Hunter. As so he did not get the kind of cinema valedictory that John Wayne did in The Shootist. Still The Hunter is a fine film for a screen legend to go out on.

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