This is when film scores were the emotional underpinning for movies and not relegated to soundtracks right behind the sound effects. One of Goldsmiths best.
Stirring theme from Goldsmith who captured the essence and sweeping grandeur of the old West like Morricone did with the Dollars Trilogy. Nothing today can approach the enlivening power and magnitude of the classics.
Saw this at a drive-in with my family in '75. The theme's been stuck in my head ever since. Every single time i see a steam train, it's there. Everywhere, even theme parks, it's THE theme for an 1800's train.
@@fredwincarr942 yep, the fruits and nuts in Hollywood today wouldn’t have been able to even be an extra for movies like this…. They required real mean.
His sound was rarely as familiar as John Williams' symphonic 'romantic' or Henry Mancini's 'popular' styles--not as instantly comfortable for the average listener. But Goldsmith's ability to work WITH THE MOVIE was second to none.
What I love about Breakheart Pass was it was a western that had mystery, suspense and action. Jerry Goldsmith’s score, Charles Bronson’s performance and Alistair MacClean’s screenplay and the locations were tightly woven together into a very great film.
Can't help feeling that the films of that era had such a real masculine edge compared to our times dye to the hard times so many actors and crew had as kids & young men - the Depression, WW2 & national service: eg: Durning WW2 infantryman in ETO, Crenna WW2 RTO infantry in Italy, Branson WW2 combat aircrew. The list goes on. Before the wars men still lived in a very tough world married young & grew up very quickly. Much the same for most women.
Probably Charles Bronson's finest movie, and an excellent and exciting sound track. Most people are probably not aware of these very fine and different western movie!
There are some amazing set pieces in this film. The fist fight on top of the train while it passes over the enormous wooden bridge. The reverse runaway train. Bronson and Lautner were enjoyable to watch. Goldsmith's theme energises the film.
Two of Charles best movies came out in 1975 Breakheart Pass and Hard Times,no actor today can compare To the great Charles Bronson which is why I watch his movies all the time
Videoed this film from tv in the 70s great film & a great score ....sadly some of the people who helped make this a great film are no longer with us but their memroy will live on through this picture & soundtrack ......Happy times now just a distant past tense........
I noticed that the music is very close to the music he did for First Blood 1982 with Stallone. Seven years apart. Goldsmith was amazing. He did a huge number of soundtracks during his life.
They played the movie on the THIS TV network a week ago...may not have done well at the box office in 1975-76 but it is one my favs...and the music isn't bad either...
There's Elmer Bernstein; there's Ennio Morricone. And then there's Jerry Goldsmith. He can perfectly encapsulates Bernstein & Morricone, even on the same score!
Mr.Aabavaanan One of the Finest Film Directors in South India got inspired by this Best Sound Track and used in his Movie "Inaindha Kaigal" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaindha_Kaigal) for the scene before Intermission, CHERRY ON THE CAKE. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ykCWpGYJVYU.html) - BGM 3:09 - 3:48. COMPOSER JERRY GOLDSMITH, THE GREAT MASTER FOREVER.
Deacon; "Don't do it. Don't make me the first man to kill somebody with a Winchester". Alistair MacLean, one of the great overlooked authors of the 20th Century.
@@tweedlebong3933 "The Guns of Navarone", "Ice Station Zebra", "Night Without End", "Fear Is the Key", "South by Java Head", "The Secret Ways", "The Satan Bug", "Golden Rendezvous", and his first novel "HMS Ulysses". The list goes on and on. Read the arctic blizzard chapter in "Ice Station Zebra" during summer weather and you will be reaching for a sweater; I did.
My all time favorite Charles Bronson films 1.all 5 Death Wish movies 2.Death Hunt 3.Messenger of Death 4.Breakheart Pass 5.Red Sun 6.White Buffalo 7.From Noon Till Three 8.Once Upon a Time in the West 9.Chino 10.Chato's Land 11.Assassination 12.Kinjite 13.The Evil That Men Do 14.Murphy's Law 15.10 to Midnight 16.Love & Bullets 17.This Property is Condemned 18.Breakout 19.The Mechanic 20.Telefon 21.Meanest Men in the West 22.Hot Lead (aka Bull of the West) 23.Machine Gun Kelly 24.Someone Behind the Door 25.Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus 26.Duel at Diablo 27.The Stone Killer 28.St. Ives 29.the Family of Cops movies 30.The Sea Wolf (1993) 31.X-15 32.Hard Times 33.Mr. Majestyk 34.The Valachi Papers 35.Borderline 36.Jubal
@@bobcastro9386 you are right. I also forgot "Battle of the Bulge". Little trivia if you didn't already know. Chuck was a coal miner in his pre acting career. So he knew how to play the tunnel king. What an actor, in my top five action stars of all time.
Am Ende des Filmes ist die Handlung unlogisch. Woher kommen die Soldaten am Ende, wenn das Fort doch besetzt und diese gefangen waren? Und wenn die Verbrecher stark genug waren die Besatzung des Forts zu überwältigen, warum schaffen sie es dann am Ende nicht gegen eine Schwadron anzukommen?
Eine solche Frage sollte nicht gestellt werden!Sie lassen sich von Action umgeben! ist eine filmische Droge. ob es dir gefällt oder nicht. und so weiter. Kinder, die 1975 10 Jahre alt waren, stellten solche Fragen nicht. Gesundheit.
Easy, watch it again. They blow the whistle on the Train and the captures go to the train leaving the soldiers locked up in the Fort. Bronson starts leaving the dynamite around and the major lays one dynamite charge on the tracks and then goes and released the troops from the jail at the prison.
@@Dottydawes Woher haben die Soldaten die Waffen? Sie wurden ja entwaffnet. Auch wenn sie befreit wurden, so waren die Verbrecher ja bewaffnet. Wer wäre so blöd und lässt eine volle Waffenkammer in der Nähe von gefangenen Soldaten. Außerdem hätten die Waffen der Soldaten ja schon an die Indianer übergeben werden müssen. Die konnten es doch kaum abwarten in den Besitz von Waffen zu kommen. Und wer lässt nicht eine Wache zurück bei den gefangenen Soldaten? Ich kenne leider nur wenige Filme, wo der Böse auch schlau ist und dadurch gewinnt.
