Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

mark.waltz From "The Lady Vanishes" to "Murder on the Orient Express", heck even "The Cassandra Crossing". There's something about hearing a train whistle, the sound of the wheels rolling over the track, smoke coming out, and the country side flying by. As long as the train isn't heading to a concentration camp, I am in heaven by the visuals of trains in the movies, even lavish toy train sets.For this movie, it's basically just an o.k. action film, but for a Charles Bronson movie, it's an above action movie as he's out to find a killer and avoid becoming a victim, after being exposed as a fraud wanted for billing gamblers out of their money by using a crooked deck of cards. Along the way, he meets up with pretty Jill Ireland, a young woman involved with a crooked governor (Richard Crenna), and she agrees to help him when he reveals his real identity, and it's as much a surprise for the audience as it is for her. The conflict erupts between Bronson and marshal Ben Johnson who has some shady activities going on as well. The scenery and action sequences are fantastic, with a runaway train sliding off the tracks over a huge cliff, and continuously sliding down the embankment as you hear the people inside screaming. A fight between Bronson and another man on top of the train as it passes over a very high snowy train trestle is quite intense. An OK script slugs along here and there, but there are moments of excitement that will have your eyes glued to the screen. I can see young boys fascinated with trains loving this, not for the story by Alistair MacLean, but for everything that happens when those wheels rolling along the tracks take over the screen.

JasparLamarCrabb 95 minutes of action packed excitement. A train traveling through the Pacific northwest heading to a diphtheria ridden military outpost is full of characters who are never what they first appear to be. Wanted man Charles Bronson is being escorted by ornery lawman Ben Johnson. Governor Richard Crenna is bringing gal-pal Jill Ireland to see her father and soldier Ed Lauter is suspicious of everyone. None of these people turn out to be what you think they are and that's the fun of this tightly wound Alistair MacLean thriller. Bronson, steely eyed and ever intense turns out to the hero while most of the remaining cast turn out to be ruthless criminals. Directed by the ever efficient Tom Gries and featuring an appropriately rousing Jerry Goldsmith score. The supporting cast also includes Charles Durning, Archie Moore and David Huddleston.

Maziun The biggest problem with this movie is the rather uninteresting beginning. The movie doesn't introduce us to the characters in the interesting way. It simply lacks hook for the first twenty minutes. Thankfully with time the movie slowly gets more and more interesting. It's not strange , because the story is an interesting mix of western , thriller and action.There are some nice dialogues here and plenty of action in the last 30 minutes. There is also quite many twists and nice mystery along the way. Good old Alistair MacLean. "Breakheart pass" feels like a book , although I'm not sure if there was a book under the same title.Charles Bronson ("Death wish") is a typical silent bad ass hero that is easy to like. I was delighted to see Richard Crenna ("Rambo : First blood") as the governor. Other actors are OK.Action scenes feel real. The special effects are sometimes a little outdated. The music by Jerry Goldsmith is really nice.Good and underrated western. I give it 7/10.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Action adventure super star Charles Bronson doesn't disappoint his fans in the movie "Breakheart Pass" as the wanted for arson murder cheating in poker and not paying his dues desperado Deakin. On the lamb from the law Deakin who after purposely getting himself arrested reveals the true reason for his very uncivil behavior. Deakin is actually a top US Government Secret Agent, with a medical degree to boot, working undercover. It's Deakins job to uncover a plot to arm a band of rebellious Indians, who are off the reservation, with 400 the latest Winchesters 73's rifles to do in the local white settlers and the US Calvary!After winning the confidence of his captor, with his keen and incisive knowledge of infectious diseases, Marshal Pearce played by Ben Johnson Deakin is allowed to roam freely on the train that's on a mission of mercy to get desperately needed medical supply to Fort Humboltd that's in the mist of suffering from an out of control diphtheria epidemic! With all the so-called accidents that Engine #9 suffers on its trip to Fort Hhmboldt with it losing more then half of its crew and passengers, that included a full company of US troops, the very observant Deakin smells that something isn't exactly kosher on the train! And it isn't the pork chops that the cook Carlos played by former Light heavyweight Champion of the world Archie Moore is grilling! In fact it's later in the movie both Deakin & Carlos, or their stunt doubles, are involved in one of the most unbelievable life and death slug-fest ever filmed on top of the train going 50 miles an hours in the middle of a snowstorm!We and Deakin soon find out that it's the crooked and corrupt Governor of the Nevada Territory Richard Fairchild,Richard Cranne,and his band of motley underlings that includes the vicious murderous and mentally unstable hillbilly Levi Calhoun, Robert Tessier, who sold out their country to the Indians lead by Chief White Hand, Eddie Little Sky, for 30 or 300 or even 3,000, go pick a number, pieces of silver and gold that White Hand offered them for the guns camouflaged as medical supplies that the train is carrying!Of course it wouldn't be a Charles Bronson movie without his pretty English wife actress Jill Ireland, who unfortunately steals ever scenes that she's in with her husband, in it who plays Fraichild's lover Monica. It's Monica's father who's the commander of Fort Humboltd and, she's made to believe, is together with his men on the brink of death if the medical supplies doesn't get their in time!****SPOILERS**** You've just got to love this movie despite its skimpy and filled with plot holes storyline in it with a hard as a rock Charles Bronson playing a James Bond type character some 80 years before Bond ever came on the scene or in books and in the movies and amazingly be able to pull it off! As well as save the day with the help of about 200 members of the US Army Calvery who were supposed to be dead or dying from diphtheria coming to both his and Monica's as well as about the only good guy, besides Deakin & Monica, still alive on the train Maj. Claramont, Ed Leuter, rescue. It was Maj. Claramont who went out on his own, before the Indians attacked, to far off Fort Humboldt in order for him to fetch them.