Directed by Tom Gries
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM)
Bronson is a wanted man arrested in a remote mountain town for cheating in a poker game. He is taken aboard a train bound for a military fort, along with a governor and the daughter of the fort commander. Supposedly the fort is in the midst of an epidemic and the train is carrying medical supplies. However, it's all just a set up, as just about every character turns out to be someone different and the train is really carrying guns and ammunition for Indians. Bronson is not a criminal but an undercover government agent. He single-handedly destroys the train, kills all of the bad guys and gets the girl. A fight between Bronson and boxing champ Archie Moore on top of the moving train is marred by use of an obvious stunt double for Bronson. The tired screenplay by Alistair MacLean relies on predictable plot twists, punctuated by explicit violence.
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