Nevada Pass
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Nevada Pass |
| Original title | Breakheart Pass |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom Gries |
| script | Alistair MacLean |
| production |
Jerry Gershwin Elliott Kastner |
| music | Jerry Goldsmith |
| camera | Lucien Ballard |
| cut | Byron Brandt |
| occupation | |
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Nevada Pass (also Nevada Pass , Breakheart Pass ) is an American western and action film directed by Tom Gries from 1975. The screenplay was written by Alistair MacLean based on his own novel of the same name from 1974.
action
United States, 1873: In Myrtle City, a lonely Rocky Mountains town in the state of Nevada , a WASATCH & NEVADA RAILROAD (W. & NRR) train stops with a US Army transport . He is on his way to the Fort Humboldt base with supplies, as diphtheria is said to have broken out there. Myrtle also the local dive Marshal Nathan Pearce on which the saloon arresting the wanted criminals and cheats John Deakin. Since the latter is said to be responsible for an attack on an army transport, Pearce goes on board the train with Deakin, despite the disapproval of the chief officer Major Claremont, to bring him to a military tribunal.
In addition to the military, there are also the governor of Nevada, Richard Fairchild, the doctor Molyneux, the Reverend Peabody and Marica Scoville, the daughter of the commandant of Fort Humboldt, on the train. Strange incidents increase: two officers are missing, the telegraph connection to Myrtle breaks down on the way, and Doctor Molyneux dies. When the stoker falls off the train and the accompanying soldiers fall victim to an attack, Deakin, who has medical knowledge, steps in. It soon becomes clear to him: Molyneux was killed, there is a murderer on the train.
Deakin begins - eyeing suspiciously as a murderer - to search the train for clues. In addition to more and more murder victims, he finds a large load of weapons and dynamite . He informs his only two confidants, Marica and Claremont, of this and finally confides in them that he is indeed a government agent and has been on the trail of the stolen weapons for some time. His partner was the Reverend Peabody, who was also murdered. The mastermind behind the company is Fairchild, who wants to pay Indians with the arms delivery . These have taken the fort with the crook Calhoun and faked the epidemic. With the help of the Indians, Fairchild wants a warehouse that houses the gold and silver yields from all of Nevada to be raided and the stocks of precious metals stolen.
Fairchild is also in cahoots with the train driver, O'Brien and Marshall Pearce. The meeting with Calhoun and the Indians is to take place at the Nevada Pass. However, Deakin and Claremont can sabotage the track using the dynamite and bring the train to a standstill. Major Claremont now brings in military support and, together with Deakin, can overwhelm and kill the conspirators.
Reviews
Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times on May 6, 1976 that either the Charles Bronson films had gotten better or he had given up the resistance. The film is a "very effective entertainment" ("highly efficient entertainment").
"Visually effective, moderately exciting mixture of western and crime film."
“Tricky thriller based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, well filmed. Conclusion: Agatha Christie crime thriller in the Wild West. "
“Tom Gries, who managed the last Bronson vehicle, The Man Without Nerves, with routine disinterest, wasted the talent of one of the best American cameramen: the dull pictures of Lucien Ballard rarely suggest that they are of the same man who photographed some of the most beautiful westerns by Budd Boetticher and Sam Peckinpah . "
backgrounds
At the locations counted Lewiston ( Idaho ).
Web links
- Breakheart Pass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nevada Pass at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Nevada Pass in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vincent Canby : Criticism ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: New York Times
- ^ Nevada Pass. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Nevada Pass on cinema.de
- ↑ Film tips . In: Die Zeit , No. 12/1976
