1980 - THE HUNTER, Steve McQueen's final film

Steve McQueen's final film is a pretty decent action film with a good sense of humor.

 

McQueen's an over the hill bounty hunter with a pregnant girlfriend and an old junker of an automobile hunting down people who jump their bail.  The film gets a lot of mileage out of McQueen's inability to barely parallel park his car much less drive it. 

The film has some good action and is supposedly based on the life of an actual bounty hunter names Ralph Thorson although that seems rather suspect. 

 The Hunter was capably directed by a TV director named Buzz Kulik who could usually be counted on to deliver high quality TV films like Brian's Song. But what the film has going for it is the charisma of Steve McQueen who was suffering from lung cancer when the film was shot.  McQueen kind of  looks in tough shape physically but he still delivers the goods.

97 minutes, written by Ted Leighton (actually a pseudo name for the writers Richard Levinson & William Link) and Peter Hyams