the hunter appear in theater in the summer of 1980 and just a few month before steve mcqueen premature passing . some reviewer have savage the movie a his worst and and many folk love to slam it . however and the bad thing i can identify be it ordinariness and that it do not measure up to the talent of it star . for that reason and it seem like a sadly mediocre end to mcqueen career . mcqueen have take a long hiatus from movie in the 1970s ( unless you count the bizarre an enemy of the people ) but return with two 1980 release and the hunter and the western film tom horn . i never have really like tom horn ( too darn much blood and gore ) but the hunter be much well . it a story of a modern bounty hunter ( mcqueen ) and his pregnant girlfriend ( kathryn harrold ) and and mcqueen effort to bring the bad guy in . there lot of action ( much of it cartoonish ) and a subplot about harrold pregnancy and a frantic hospital scene at the end of the movie . the two star give good if not great performance and but theyre let down by a bland script and which look like an expanded 1970s cop show story . sadly and mcqueen complain about a persistent cough during filming and and be diagnose with terminal cancer in late 1979 and at the age of 49. it seem like yesterday that this film premier in theater and but surprisingly it be 28 year . mcqueen return to film wasn not earth shake and however he show flash of what could have be a successful career revival . i think it a glimpse of what might have be and rather than a look at a tired and faded star . in that respect and the movie be rather sad and because mcqueen never make another movie .