The Bounty Hunter is a 1954 American western film directed by Andre DeToth and starring Randolph Scott, Marie Windsor and Dolores Dorn.

It was the last of six Randolph Scott westerns with DeToth and the first film to feature a bounty hunter as its hero.

[1] Portions of the film were shot on location in California at Red Rock Canyon and the Mojave Desert.

Kipp, who has the reputation that he will do anything for money, is offered a huge reward if he can capture the culprits dead or alive.

A limping man named Bill Rachin, who works at the hotel, draws Kipp's suspicion.

[3] Critics responded favorably to DeToth's skills as a director, especially his ability to seamlessly integrate 3-D effects into the picture as well as for his long tracking shots filmed on location.

[4] Winston Miller's screenplay included notable dialog such as Kipp explaining that as a lawman without a badge, he could enforce the law but "not wanting to break up fights or throw drunks in jail."

[5] Another scene features Julie, whose father is a doctor, criticizing Kipp's gun in comparison to her father’s medical instruments, saying it’s not a “stethoscope”, causing Kipp to caustically remark, “No, but properly used it can be very good for the human race.”[6] Near the movie's conclusion, Julie and Alice fight over a gun.

Although much of the fight was omitted from the film's final edit, pre-release publicity described it as "...blonde Delores Dorn and brunette Marie Windsor stage their own hair-pulling, scratching, swinging scrimmage.

"[7] DeToth allegedly filmed the scene in one take, without a rehearsal, and encouraged the women to actually fight each other.

[9] Contemporary critics have pointed out that Kipp's marriage to Julie, played by Dolores Dorn who was 36 years his junior, seems unusual to current movie audiences.