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, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.
Practical Effects
Real train stunts on actual moving locomotives through Colorado.
Acting
Bronson's minimalist menace against Crenna's sweating desperation.
Direction
Tight confined spaces that never let you breathe.
Director
Tom Gries
Charles Bronson
John Deakin
Ben Johnson
Deputy U.S. Marshal Nathan Pearce
Richard Crenna
Gov. Richard Fairchild
Jill Ireland
Marica Scoville
Charles Durning
Frank O'Brien
Ed Lauter
Major Claremont
Bill McKinney
Reverend Peabody
David Huddleston
Dr. Molyneux
Rayford Barnes
Sgt. Bellew
Scott Newman
Rafferty
Roy Jenson
Chris Banion
Robert Tessier
Levi Calhoun
Joe Kapp
Henry
Sally Kirkland
Jane-Marie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alastair MacLean wrote the novel after his success with 'The Guns of Navarone,' recycling his favorite formula: isolated location + ticking clock + traitor in plain sight.
This was Bronson and director Tom Gries' second collaboration that year after 'Breakout,' cementing Bronson's 70s reign as the era's most bankable minimalist action star.
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