Death Hunt is a 1981 film starring Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Carl Weathers, Maury Chaykin, Ed Lauter and Andrew Stevens. The film was directed by Peter Hunt, and was a fictionalized account of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pursuit of a man named Albert Johnson. In the Yukon Territory in 1931, solitary American trapper Albert Johnson , comes across an organised dog fight. One of the dogs, a white German Shepherd, is badly injured and Johnson forcibly takes it, paying $200 to its owner, a vicious trapper named Hazel. Aggrieved by his treatment and claiming the dog was... stolen from him, Hazel , leads several of his friends to Johnson's isolated cabin. The men then attack the cabin, shooting while others create a diversion. Johnson kills one of them, Jimmy Tom , after he shoots Sitka, the dog, which Johnson has nursed back to health.
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| Release date: | 1981 |
| Directed by: | Peter R. Hunt |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Editor: | Allan Jacobs |
| Music by: | Jerrold Immel |
| Genre: | Thriller, Adventure, Action |