Word: breakheart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BREAKHEART PASS...
...Breakheart Pass has the trappings of a classic western: a fine old steam train carrying a detachment of soldiers makes its way through picturesque but hostile country. Everyone aboard is fearful of Indian attack, yet bravely determined to relieve an isolated garrison whose force has been decimated by disease. From these elements one might well fashion an outdoor drama of stark simplicity, a clean-lined action picture of the sort no one seems to make any more. The trouble is that Writer Mac-Lean, adapting his own novel, is at heart a puzzlemaker, not a picturemaker. So all that nice...
...star was going to fight personally, then I was going to do the same." Moore, 61, probably regretted his decision during four hours atop a moving railroad car with stone-faced Actor Charles Branson. The fight scene, shot in a snowstorm in the Idaho Rockies, was filmed for Breakheart Pass, a western based on a novel by Adventure Author Alistair Maclean. At one point in the action, both men hung by their hands from the train roof and struggled to pull themselves back on board. "I pulled myself up with both arms, but I saw Bronson...
...Breakheart Pass, Maclean...
...BREAKHEART PASS by ALISTAIR MACLEAN 178 pages. Doubleday...