Man Hunt (movie)

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"Man Hunt" is a 91 minute movie released in 1982 which starred Ethan Wayne, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson, and Ernest Borgnine. It was directed by Fabrizio De Angelis. Wayne plays a cowboy in modern-day Arizona who buys two horses at a fair but who is then arrested for theft because he failed to get the papers which would prove his ownership. He's sentenced to prison but escapes and begins a desperate search to find the man who sold them the horses.

The movie, though of minor interest, is fast-paced, has plenty of action, and benefits from a supporting cast which is a notch above what one might expect in a production of this sort. However, Ethan Wayne, son of screen legend John Wayne, has too bland a personality to make plausible the "tough guy" aspects of his character, but he has a likeable quality which manages to retain audience interest and sympathy. In a high-point scene he's taken into a barn, stripped of his shirt, and whipped while hanging from his wrists. Curiously, his father also suffered a whipping across his back in the 1956 movie, The Conqueror.