For a short time in the late 1960s, after several seasons of starring in summer stock and dinner theater in shows such as "Bye Bye Birdie", "The Tender Trap", "Under the Yum Yum Tree", and "West Side Story" with some of the New York cast, Hunter settled in the south of France, where he acted in Spaghetti Westerns, including "Vengeance Is My Forgiveness" (1968), "The Last Chance" (1968), and "Bridge over the Elbe" (1969).