Death Hunt

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Death Hunt is a 1981 film starring Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Tantoo Cardinal, Angie Dickinson, Carl Weathers, Maury Chaykin, Ed Lauter and Andrew Stevens. The film was directed by Peter Hunt, based on a true story.

[edit] Plot summary

Charles Bronson plays a sullen loner in the Canadian Yukon of the 1930s. He gets on the wrong side of a gang of bullies when he draws his gun on them to prevent them from killing a Husky dog for losing a dogfight. Later, the bullies try to ambush Bronson, and he kills one in self defense. This sets off the main action of the film - an attack on his cabin and a long chase lasting many days, across the frozen Northwest, with the captain of Mounties played by Marvin trying to capture Bronson, and Bronson trying to escape across the border into Alaska.

[edit] Triva

• Marvin playes a RCMP Captain "Millen". There was a real RCMP Constable Millen in the hunt for Albert Johnson (criminal)-however he was murdered by Johnson.
• Wop May was a bush pilot in the hunt for Albert Johnson (criminal). Contray to the movie-which has a RCAF Pilot in the Posse:
  • May did not wildly shoot everyone-including the posse-on the ground.
  • May did not crash and die on a mountaintop after being shot down by the posse.

[edit] External link

• Death Hunt at the Internet Movie Database