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Death Hunt (1980)

Death Hunt poster
Directed by
Peter R. Hunt
Genre
action film, adventure film, crime film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 207 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the Yukon wilderness, a trapper clashes with a local Mountie and then a posse. The man is pursued across snowy mountains.

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What happens

Death Hunt is a 1981 Western action film directed by Peter Hunt. The film stars Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Carl Weathers, Maury Chaykin, Ed Lauter and Andrew Stevens. Death Hunt was a fictionalized account of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) pursuit of a man named Albert Johnson. Earlier films exploring the same topic were The Mad Trapper (1972), a British made-for-television production and Challenge to Be Free (also known as Mad Trapper of the Yukon and Mad Trapper) (1975). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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