Breakheart Pass
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At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered! Their only hope is John Deakin (Bronson) a mysterious man, who is being transported unexpectedly to face trial for murder. Can Deakin uncover the truth before only the murderer remains, or the train reaches it's secret destination? Based on the novel by Alistair MacLean.
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For once, I find the Norwegian title to be better than the original (Man, I could give you some stupid examples there), but Breakheart Pass? Really? It sounds like some kind of surgery, or at best a love story. No, this film is nothing but The Train to Fort Humbolt. As simple as that.
Ok, so I like these types of films from that period. They remind me of the time when I starting visiting the theaters on my own, during the film I even wondered if I had seen this one before. It might have happened. It could also be because I one summer read all of Alistair MacLean's novels, they're perfect holiday literature. And, some of them has…
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This is one of those movies where you can sit through an average story because you get to watch Charles Bronson for 90 minutes. Trapping a bunch of characters on a train is always pretty entertaining and that's the case here, but it's only Bronson who's interesting. The winter setting works too and this builds into a strong finish with lots of good stuntwork. At heart, it's an old-fashioned Western with a touch of 70's violence. Another great Bronson role.
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Breakheart Pass is a pretty difficult film to categorise. It's probably best described as a western mystery adventure, and it's certainly one of the more offbeat films of Charles Bronson's career, a career at the point of the release of this film that had more or less moved wholesale into the crime thrillers that he became best known for.
So moving back into a western must have been regarded as a surprise in some quarters back in 1975, but as I've already mentioned this is not your average western - and as difficult as it is to categorise, it's also quite difficult to succinctly pin down its story. Essentially it's the story of a small US Army unit that is…
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One of my favorites since back in the day. Murder on the Orient Express in the Old West with a pretty fair cast of character actors. And since it's an Alistair MacLean novel/screenplay, there's a fair piece of espionage thrown in for good measure. Charles Bronson is, of course, playing standard '70s Charles Bronson. Interesting side note: Yakima Canutt's last film.
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This is one of those movies where you can sit through an average story because you get to watch Charles Bronson for 90 minutes. Trapping a bunch of characters on a train is always pretty entertaining and that's the case here, but it's only Bronson who's interesting. The winter setting works too and this builds into a strong finish with lots of good stuntwork. At heart, it's an old-fashioned Western with a touch of 70's violence. Another great Bronson role.
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For once, I find the Norwegian title to be better than the original (Man, I could give you some stupid examples there), but Breakheart Pass? Really? It sounds like some kind of surgery, or at best a love story. No, this film is nothing but The Train to Fort Humbolt. As simple as that.
Ok, so I like these types of films from that period. They remind me of the time when I starting visiting the theaters on my own, during the film I even wondered if I had seen this one before. It might have happened. It could also be because I one summer read all of Alistair MacLean's novels, they're perfect holiday literature. And, some of them has…
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Great Bronson flick.
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Breakheart Pass is a pretty difficult film to categorise. It's probably best described as a western mystery adventure, and it's certainly one of the more offbeat films of Charles Bronson's career, a career at the point of the release of this film that had more or less moved wholesale into the crime thrillers that he became best known for.
So moving back into a western must have been regarded as a surprise in some quarters back in 1975, but as I've already mentioned this is not your average western - and as difficult as it is to categorise, it's also quite difficult to succinctly pin down its story. Essentially it's the story of a small US Army unit that is…
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Decent mystery thriller. Not a bad effort on Bronson's part. I enjoyed it.
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Enjoyable western murder mystery.