Lone Wolf McQuade

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Lone Wolf McQuade
Lone Wolf McQuade movie poster
Directed by	Steve Carver
Produced by	Yoram Ben-Ami Steve Carter Aaron Norris (assistant producer) Kathryn Petty (associate producer)
Written by	H. Kaye Dyal B.J. Nelson
Starring	Chuck Norris David Carradine Barbara Carrera Robert Beltran L. Q. Jones Dana Kimmell
Cinematography	Jerry G. Callaway Roger Shearman Michael Sibley
Editing by	Anthony Redman
Distributed by	Orion Pictures
Release date(s)	April 15, 1983
Running time	105 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5,000,000 (estimated)
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Lone Wolf McQuade is a 1983 action film, starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, and Barbara Carrera and Robert Beltran, directed by Steve Carver. The film score was written by Francesco De Masi.

1 Taglines
2 Plot Summary
3 Production Notes
4 Cast
5 External links

[edit] Taglines

A "Mad Dog" criminal. A "Lone Wolf" lawman. The ultimate showdown.
He's deadly with his gun...and deadlier with his black belt!

[edit] Plot Summary

The main character, J.J. McQuade, is a Texas Ranger who prefers to work alone. He lives in a dirty home in the middle of nowhere with a pet wolf. He has a teenage daughter who came from a past marriage and is still on relatively good terms with his former wife.

The movie opens with McQuade involved in an intense battle with stereotypical Mexican-bandits--a gang of horse thieves--from which he emerges unscathed. Shaking off the dust, McQuade returns to El Paso, Texas to attend the retirement ceremony of his fellow Ranger and close friend Dakota. After the party, his commander attempts to curb his "lone wolf" attitude by insisting he work with local deputy Kayo Ramos, a tough but clean-cut and polite Latino. We meet McQuade's ex-wife and daughter, who is engaged to a young soldier. When McQuade's daughter is injured (and her fiancé is killed) after witnessing the hijacking of an Army convoy (one of the hijackers is driving a Dodge Aspen which pushes her fiancé's car over an embankment), McQuade more readily works with Kayo to find out who did this to his little girl: Kayo's computer skills allow him to track the errant convoy. At an illegal garment factory, they pick up a young delinquent named Snow, who is reluctant to talk until Dakota points a Mac-10 in his general direction and empties the clip.

As the story progresses, they are joined by Federal Agent Jackson. The trail leads them to arms merchant Rawley Wilkes, who is hijacking U.S. arms shipments for his illicit weapons deals. Wilkes is trained in martial arts and often gives free demonstrations at county fairs.

[edit] Production Notes

David Carradine and Chuck Norris refused to use stunt doubles for their climactic fight scene, despite strong reservations from the producers.
Norris credits this movie as a leading inspiration for his hit TV series, Walker, Texas Ranger, which premiered a decade later. Yet the pilot had to be rewritten, and the characters' names changed, since "all things McQuade" were copyrighted by Orion Pictures.
An uncredited John Milius helped write the screenplay.