Your email address will not be published. 1 (Updated with post script), Montana Rail Link paints veterans commemorative locomotive, News Photos: Indonesian EMDs begin voyage home after repairs, News Photo: CN heritage units on the move, North County Transportation District buys more Chargers, helping Siemens reach milestone, CSX earnings fall, but executives praise railroad's handling of historic swings in volume, Locomotive profile: EMD SD70 series locomotives, Locomotive profile: Gas-electric turbine locomotives. There are also civilian passengers on the train in the rear luxurious private car – Nevada Governor Fairchild (Richard Crenna) and his fiancée Marica (Jill Ireland), the daughter of the fort's commander. Also used (and actually wrecked) were some NP wooden boxcars and an NP wooden caboose. Because his house appears in film shots, the movie company repaneled part of the exterior free of charge.
Fairchild's fiancée (Jill Ireland) in the final snowy scene, as frontier army colonel and commander at Fort Humboldt reunites with his daughter. [10], Lewiston realtor Irv Falling, a retired U.S. Army colonel, played a cameo role as the father of Marica, Gov. [5][7] Bronson and Ireland arrived in Lewiston for filming in early March 1975 and stayed at 322 Stewart Avenue. During filming, Bronson discovered the script had been changed again to reveal his character was a detective early. The script called for 70 cavalry soldiers to fall to their deaths when three freight cars plunged off the track into the canyon. Breakheart Pass is a 1975 American western adventure film that stars Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, and Jill Ireland. Ralph Blumenthal Special to The New York Times.
The hire of the train (Great Western Railway steam locomotive #75)[14] carriages and track cost $500,000 (approximately $2,376,000 today). He played the brakeman on the mythical Wasatch & Nevada Railroad.
[7][12] The Native American extras were Nez Perce, mostly from Lapwai.[11].
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When a film comes to town, the crews need food. [10] While Charles Bronson who is being paid $1‐million plus 10 per cent of the gross for his starring role—panned the Clearwater River for gold during lulls in the filming (he has only found a few worthless flakes, he says), local folk found a mother lode of their own in the United Artists production company. The most dramatic moment in “Breakheart Pass” involves the uncoupling of three cars filled with 70 soldiers —actually mannequins—that plunge 200 feet off a mountain to crash on the valley floor.
The train was full of dummies in 1880 U.S. Cavalry uniforms. A special express train is heading up into the remote mountain ranges towards the fort filled with reinforcements and medical supplies.
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Six cameras were used to film the cars that fell 200 feet into the canyon.
It was filmed on a couple of the Camas Prairie Railroad's branches in Idaho.
There is more money in stunts than in rodeo, he told the Tribune. A limited edition (3,000 run) CD soundtrack of Breakheart Pass, highlighting the original music of Jerry Goldsmith, was released by La-La Land Records. “We've just had a ball,” he said with a gap‐toothed grin in his small kitchen. Most of the people on the train, including Governor Fairchild and Marshal Pearce, are Calhoun's partners in crime, and those innocents who discover the evidence for his sinister plot are eliminated.
[15] Six cameras filmed the cars falling 200 ft (61 m) into the canyon, however, the dummies (representing the soldiers) failed to fall out during the crash. [16] Canutt oversaw the scene where the caboose and troop carriages crashed off the rail line into a ravine. [ Reply To This Message ] [ Quote ] By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our, Get our weekly newsletter delivered to your inbox, BNSF reports lower revenue and earnings, but operating ratio improves to 59.7%, North County Transit District asks STB to delay action on Del Mar dispute, Digest: Sinkhole swallows rail line, cutting off Cape Cod service, Onboard analysis: Scheduling logistics, limited help hobble 'Zephyr', Digest: STB receives more filings on Del Mar Bluffs, Pennsylvania short line disputes, Digest: Report says New Jersey congressman to seek chair of railroad subcommittee, Metra debuts new bike car, will allow bicycles on all trains, Trains magazine celebrates its 80th year with Soo Line No.
Most of the people on the train, including Governor Fairchild and Marshal Pearce, are Calhoun's partners in crime, and those innocents who discover the evidence for his sinister plot are eliminated. “What we didn't know,” he said, “is it's $1,634 each time we traverse it.” The film company used the track mainly on weekends when no regular trains run. Nothing has quite been the same here in the bare brown Idaho hills near Lewiston since United Artists moved in to shoot a mystery‐Western, “Breakheart Pass,” more than two months ago. Charles Bronson on the set of "Breakheart Pass" outside Lewiston, Idaho. In fact, many residents offered to work free as extras or assist in other ways just for the thrill of working on a movie. Bill Klem, trainmaster for the small Camas Prairie Railroad, hasn't been riding the freight line for a while. A handful of locals got bit parts in “Breakheart Pass.”. The film begins with a card shark played by Bronson being arrested by a marshal played by Ben Johnson, who’d won a 1971 Academy Award for “The Last Picture Show.” The two embark on a harrowing train trip with a sensational conclusion. In the course of the film, the Governor, who is also traveling on the train in his own private railroad car—an actual restored 1880 Kansas Pacific wood coach now used by Camas Railroad officials —is exposed as a smuggler of arms to the Indians while Charles Bronson also turns out to be other than what he seemed.
For “Breakheart Pass,” Canutt helped construct a train derailment at Halfmoon Trestle.
Deakin, who is actually an undercover U.S. Secret Service agent, uncovers en route that the "epidemic" at the outpost is actually a conspiracy between a group of killers led by the notorious outlaw Levi Calhoun (Robert Tessier), and a tribe of Indians under Chief White Hand (Eddie Little Sky).
Photo by Barry Kough.
Fairchild when he threatens Marica, but the governor is then in turn cut down by Major Claremont.
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Even now that the filming is all over with, things will never return to normal for Marcia Williams and Peter McWhorter. The second unit director was famed rodeo rider and stuntman Yakima Canutt, who was born near Colfax in 1896, according to his 1986 obituary that ran in newspapers nationwide. Admission: Free
Did they wreck a real caboose and cars or were they props ?
Alternating shots of clear and overcast skies are present in the final climactic scenes. 13, Iss. The movie itself, produced by Jerry Gershwin and based on an Alistair MacLean nov el, tells the story of an apparent outlaw, Charles Bronson, who is picked up for murder in Myrtle in the eighteen‐nineties and held on a train ferrying Army troops to a fort under Indian siege.
In April 1975, newspaper headlines reported the first planes full of Vietnam War orphans landing in the U.S.
Charlton Heston said that after Canutt, “It’s no longer an idiot undertaking.”.
At one point Nathan Pierce refers to Maj. Claremont as Colonel, to which Claremont replies, "Major." Mr. Gries, an exuberant man with a shaven head who directed another recently completed Bronson film, “Breakout,” neatly set him, self up when he introduced Mr. Welle as a local antiques dealer who provided many of the Western props for the film. In addition to the 100 actors and technicians imported from Hollywood, the unit hired about 20 local extras, including a number of Nez Perce Indians and another 80 area residents for the production crew. But as the journey goes on through the beautiful snowy mountain scenery, several train passengers, including most of the train's soldier escort, are mysteriously killed or go missing. Kino Video released "Breakheart Pass" for the first time on Blu-ray on August 12, 2014. [11], Some exteriors were filmed in Pierce and Reubens in northern Idaho. Breakheart Pass is a 1975 American western adventure film that stars Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, and Jill Ireland. SECOND ANNUAL GROSSES GLOSS Byron, Stuart.
At the end of the battle, Deakin intercepts Marshal Pearce and shoots him when the corrupt lawman decides to go down fighting. When: Dusk Friday He also appeared in the 1937 film “Come and Get It” shot near Headquarters and the 1940s film “Unconquered,” which starred Gary Cooper and was shot outside Ashton, Idaho.
Puzzling to me, Breakheart Pass winded up on the 10 worst list. Edit.
Where: Pioneer Park, Lewiston Bronson demanded it be changed to the way it was in the original story and this was done. Tom Kiiskila, a 63-year-old Orofino construction worker, was one of the character extras. This may have been discussed before but where was Breakheart Pass filmed and with what equipment?
Film Comment; New York Vol. Deakin and Major Claremont use dynamite to blow up and break the track rails, grounding the train before it reaches the fort; and while Deakin runs interference, Claremont rushes ahead to Fort Humboldt to free the soldiers imprisoned by Calhoun's gang.
Instead of medical supplies, the train's boxcars are transporting a large secret shipment of weapons, rifles, ammunition and dynamite stolen from U.S. arms manufacturers for sale to the Indians, in return for allowing Calhoun and his men to mine and smuggle gold from their lands.
if you go It was a departure for MacLean in that, despite the thriller novel plot, the setting is essentially that of a western novel, set in the western ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of the Rocky Mountains in the Western United States in the late 19th century.
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The game drew an overflow crowd of more than 2,000 to the now-demolished Warrior Gym at LCSC. Lawrence Welle hasn't been tending his antiques these days; he was too busy standing around in a frayed tan frock coat as an extra in the movie.
The country was chosen partly for its concentration of 250 classic matchstick Camas Railroad trestles, some over 100 feet high, that span the snowy hills. The movie was based on the 1974 novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean (1922–1987), of the same title,[4] and was filmed in north central Idaho.[5][6][7][8][9]. She is the editor of Inland 360, a weekly culture magazine for north Idaho and eastern Washington that prints in the Lewiston Tribune and Moscow-Pullman Daily News.