Death Hunt (1981)
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Directors
Peter R. Hunt
Cast
Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers
The story
In the Yukon Territory in 1931, Albert Johnson (Charles Bronson), a solitary American trapper, comes across an organized dog fight. A white German Shepherd named Sitka is badly injured and Johnson forces $200 on its owner, a vicious trapper named Hazel (Ed Lauter), in exchange for the dog. Johnson nurses the dog back to health.
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Action, Crime, action film, adventure film, crime film, thriller film
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