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Article: `Tracker' picks up the trail of traditional Western movie
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 25, 1988
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The Tracker (STAR) (STAR) (STAR)
Noble Adams Kris Kristofferson
Red Jack Stillwell Scott Wilson
HBO presents a made-for-TV movie directed by John Guillermin and
written by Kevin Jarre. Showing from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow over local
cable systems.
Let's face it, in the entire history of the Western movie genre,
there have been maybe 1,000 films made, perhaps easily even more.
Yet they all virtually revolve around three basic themes:
cowboys and Indians, the evil land baron, and that all-time favorite,
the man of peace forced to return to his violent past to right a
wrong.
So we should not be surprised or disappointed that tomorrow
night's HBO movie, "The Tracker," picks ...