[Inspector Abberline]

Chuck Bronson takes a break from killing street scum in Manhattan and is now a notorious villain John Deakin or is he...Well, seeing as this is an Alistair MacLean story, and he pretty much throws everything bar the kitchen sink into this tale, it's hardly surprising that no one appears to be what they seem, (remember Where Eagles Dare) its a little like an Agatha Christie, in fact, its a lot like Murder on the Orient Express, except substitute posh Euro-trash for gruff burly Cowboys and you kind of get the idea. What is great about Breakheart Pass is that pretty much the whole supporting cast is a who's who of character actors and gnarly 1970's villain, I'm pretty sure most of them have been beaten up numerous times by the likes of Clint and Bronson during their heydays in the mid-1970s. Of course, no Bronson film is complete without Jill Ireland, she doesn't actually do a lot but it's nice to have her around anyway. Overall it's a fairly entertaining old-school action film, with plenty of middle-aged men whacking seven bells out of each other on the top of railway carriages. In fact, Bronson's demeanour in this film is slightly less curmudgeonly than normal, mainly because he gets out curmudgeon by Ben Johnson who was the world record holder....