The film feels like a deeply personal project for Steve McQueen, who portrays Horn, a scout who becomes an enforcer during the waning years of the 1800s. Horn is brought in by regional cattle ranchers to stop rustling, but he’s unaware that he's simply being exploited as a pawn by those with grand designs. Despite the counsel of Coble (Richard Farnsworth), most people in this area would readily use his abilities with…

The life of Tom Horn was multifaceted; he worked as a cowboy, scout, stagecoach driver, soldier who helped capture Geronimo, Pinkerton agent, range detective, and even fought at the Battle of San Juan Hill alongside Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. The film portrays him arriving in Wyoming Territory around 1901, aged forty, where he's employed to eliminate rustlers before being accused of shooting a young shepherd boy…

You’re going to have to support yourself eventually, Tom. Tom Horn was directed by William Wiard and written by Thomas McGuane and Bud Schrake, based on Horn's autobiography. The cast includes Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, and Slim Pickens; the score is by Ernest Gold, and John A. Alonzo handled the cinematography. The story follows McQueen as Tom Horn, a celebrated army scou…