Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- governor
- army
- prisoner
- u.s. marshal
- train
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Archie Moore — Carlos
- Sally Kirkland — Jane-Marie
- Directed
- Tom Gries
- Written
- Alistair MacLean
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 234 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists, Jerry Gershwin Productions, Elliott Kastner Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
