I, Tom Horn

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Movie
German title I, Tom Horn
Original title Tom Horn
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1980
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director William Wiard
script Thomas McGuane
Bud Shrake
production Steve McQueen
Michael I. Rachmil
Fred Weintraub
Sandra Weintraub
music John Mick
camera John A. Alonzo
cut George Grenville
occupation

Me, Tom Horn (Original Title: Tom Horn ) is an American western directed by William Wiard from 1979 with Steve McQueen in the lead role. The film was shot from January 30, 1979 to March 28, 1979 and opened on March 28, 1980 with First Artists in US cinemas. The American Solar Productions was responsible for the production . The film was released in the Federal Republic of Germany on August 14, 1980 by Warner Bros. Pictures .

action

Hagerville , Wyoming , in 1901. Tom Horn , a scout and bounty hunter , is terribly beaten by his three bodyguards after an argument with "gentleman" Jim Corbett . The well-known rancher John Coble, who is well informed about Horn's achievements as a scout and bounty hunter, takes him to his ranch and helps him recover.

During his stay with Coble, Horn met numerous ranchers who hire him to put an end to the cattle thieves in the area. Horn became very famous for working with his Winchester in no time. Despite the ranchers' enthusiasm for the successes of his work, Horn is soon viewed as a callous killer. Regardless of this fact, the teacher Glendolene Kimmel feels more and more drawn to Horn.

US Marshal Joe Belle secretly resents Horn for being more regarded as a bandit hunter than he is; nevertheless he pretends to be his friend. After a short time the name Tom Horn became so famous and infamous that it gradually became a nuisance for some ranchers. These discuss with Belle. He then urges Coble to fire Horn.

Shortly afterwards, a fifteen-year-old shepherd boy is found shot dead. After it turns out that the caliber is identical to Horn's Winchester , Belle and a newspaper reporter set a trap for him. The marshal lures Horn into his office for a meeting. During the conversation, the reporter sits behind the door, taking notes and later falsifying Horn's remarks about the confession of the murder. Sheriff Creedmore arrests Horn as the alleged murderer. Horn makes no attempt to refute the allegation made against him during the open-air trial. After a failed escape attempt, which is taken as an additional confession, Horn is sentenced to hang for a murder he did not commit. During the execution, the sheriff cannot hold back tears, while Horn remains in cold blood until his end.

Historical background

Thomas "Tom" Horn Jr. (born November 21, 1860; † November 20, 1903) was one of the last heroes of the Wild West. Horn, who ran away from home at the age of 14, worked, among other things, as a rail layer for the construction of the Santa Fe railway lines, drove a stagecoach and was a soldier in the US cavalry . He became famous as the scout and Indian hunter of the legendary Geronimo .

Horn and his mentor Al Sieber located a silver mine in Tombstone , Arizona. In the spring of 1878 both were ordered back to Fort Wipple by the newly appointed General Willcox. They were previously able to sell their mine claim to Charley Leach for $ 2,800, which was a profitable business for them within eight months.

In countless rodeo fights , he won lassoing and riding wild horses.

He then worked as a soldier in the Roosevelt Troop of the Rough Riders , during the Spanish-American War in Cuba . He later hired himself as a detective for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to solve bank and railroad robberies.

In 1901, Horn worked as a bounty hunter for farmers in Wyoming fighting cattle thieves. Two years later, one day before his 43rd birthday, Horn was hanged and hanged for the murder of 15-year-old Willi Nickell, which he did not commit.

background

The film had a budget of approximately $ 3,000,000 . Steve McQueen began preparing for the film four years before filming began on January 30, 1979. He followed Tom Horn's life, from the Missouri farm that Horn left as a 14-year-old to his grave near the city of Tucson , Arizona . The style in which Steve McQueen directed me, Tom Horn , is strongly influenced by the experience he gained while shooting with Sam Peckinpah .

During the outdoor shoots, Steve McQueen found it increasingly difficult to breathe. In retrospect, it turned out that these were the first symptoms of his cancer, which he succumbed to in 1980.

DVD release

  • Me, Tom Horn on July 22, 2005

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ... as there was no money in the treasury to pay their wages
  2. ^ Charley Leach bought the claim in Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter
  3. ↑ a b c d Wolf Kohl .: Cinema . Kino Verlag. Issue 27 August 1979, p. 72.
  4. ↑ Robert J.Kirberg .: Heyne film library. ISBN 3-453-86081-0 , pp. 209-212.