Death Hunt | |
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Directed by | Peter Hunt |
Written by | Michael Grais and Mark Victor |
Produced by | Murray Shostak |
Starring | Charles Bronson Lee Marvin Andrew Stevens Carl Weathers Ed Lauter Angie Dickinson |
Cinematography | James Devis |
Edited by | John F. Burnett Allan Jacobs |
Music by | Jerrold Immel |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (worldwide) Golden Harvest (Hong Kong) |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Countries | United States Hong Kong |
Language | English |
Budget | $10–10.5 million[1][2] |
Box office | $5 million[3] |
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.[4] 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).[5][6]