Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986 TV Movie) User Reviews

Not the most thrilling

[teresatremain · 5/10 · 27 February 2006]

I saw this movie about ten years ago on TV and I was very excited as I was and still am a huge Brent Spiner fan. Overall the film is a little unmemorable.

You do feel for the main character who just wants to be left alone to live in the wild and who gets himself in terrible trouble with the law. Brent plays Bob, a friend who tries to help Claude out.

Overall, I have it on tape and would only watch it again to see Brent Spiners scenes.

There were some recognizable faces in the cast, and it does pass for a good true story, I like stories based on reality.

Unique and intelligent film ..........

[merklekranz · 7/10 · 1 November 2013]

Matt Salinger in a very understated performance, plays Claude Dallas, self proclaimed minimalist, who also happens to be a cold blooded killer. It's a fascinating conflict of beliefs regarding poaching that sets the story in motion. Is Claude Dallas simply defending his God given right to live off the land, by breaking the law with his out of season hunting? Confronted by two Idaho Game Wardens, Dallas, in what he believes is righteous anger, kills to protect his beliefs. The manhunt that follows is spearheaded by Rip Torn playing the local sheriff. His relentless pursuit is not an easy one however, because of the many sympathizers who aid Dallas along the way. This is an excellent, much overlooked, TV movie. - MERK

A TV movie as I like.

[searchanddestroy-1 · 11 September 2011]

What I love the most in this tale is the description of the lead character - Claude Dallas. It is shown as a sympathetic man, a nature lover, an authentic mountain man, very pleasant guy, to whom the audience can feel some good feelings. With his gentle school teacher look, he surprises every one when he shoots the two mountain wardens who wanted to arrest him for illegal hunting, or something like that. Yes, the audience is astonished when we wee that gentle man killing two officers in cold blood before finishing them like ordinary trapped animals. This story is from actual facts, that's the reason why this kind of sequence is described; in another fictional feature, we would have never seen that. It would have been a classic good guys vs bad guys scheme.

Claude Dallas is very touching when the script tells us his story through flashbacks. An ordinary guy who becomes later a killer. I like that. It is very unusual.

And his victims are sympathetic too.

A very interesting scheme.