{"id":36815,"date":"2024-09-15T07:35:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T11:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36815"},"modified":"2024-09-15T07:35:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T11:35:04","slug":"36815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36815","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Breakheart Pass&#8221; (1975) starring Charles Bronson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091524zview_breakheartpass.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"762\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>Breakheart Pass<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1975)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Tom Gries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Alistair MacLean;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ZjFZKa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BREAKHEART PASS<\/a> by Alistair MacLean<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson<\/strong><strong>, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter, Bill McKinney, David Huddleston, Roy Jenson, Rayford Barnes, Scott Newman, Robert Tessier, Joe Kapp, Sally Kirkland, Eddie Little Sky, Paul Frees <\/strong>(voice) and <strong>Archie Moore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Death rode the express to Breakheart Pass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A train is heading to Fort Humbold, a remote frontier outpost.\u00a0 The soldiers at the fort have reported a diphtheria outbreak.\u00a0 The train carries medical supplies, replacement soldiers, and civilians including Governor Fairchild (Crenna) and his fianc\u00e9e Marica (Ireland), the daughter of the fort&#8217;s commander.\u00a0 Also on board are U.S. Marshal Pearce (Johnson) and his prisoner, John Deakin (Bronson).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the train gets further from civilization, people started turning up murdered.\u00a0 There is a killer or killers on board.\u00a0 To complicate matters, outlaw Levi Calhoun (Tessier) has joined with Chief White Hand (Little Sky) to rob the train of the weapons being taken to the fort.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows who can be trusted.\u00a0 As the bodies pile up, secrets are revealed and a conspiracy unfolds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Breakheart Pass is a real location in Nevada&#8217;s Rocky Mountains.\u00a0 And yes, trains pass through it.<\/p>\n<p>The railroad cars that go off track and are destroyed weren&#8217;t miniatures.\u00a0 They were actual full-sized train cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Archie Moore, the longest fighter to hold the light heavyweight title, has a featured role.\u00a0 Moore fought in three weight divisions over his career.\u00a0 He held the light heavyweight title for ten years!\u00a0 His boxing record was 186 &#8211; 23.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breakheart Pass<\/em> is an under-rated Charles Bronson film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>Breakheart Pass<\/b><\/i> (1975)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091524zview_breakheartpass2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakheart Pass (1975) Director: Tom Gries Screenplay:\u00a0 Alistair MacLean;\u00a0based on BREAKHEART PASS by Alistair MacLean Stars: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36843,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36815\/revisions\/36843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}