8 Best Snowy Westerns Ever
5. Breakheart Pass (1972)
Starring Charles Bronson (Death Wish) and based on the novel by Alistair MacLean, a train carries an assortment of passengers through America's frontier mountains towards a remote army outpost sometime during the 1870s. With the passengers including an accused arsonist and thief, a corrupt US Marshall and a territorial governor, tensions and paranoia reach breaking point when a murder is committed on the train with each of the passengers becoming a suspect.
Less acclaimed by critics at the time but loved by genre fans, the title refers to a location in Nevada's Rocky Mountains which trains pass in order to reach the destination of Fort Humboldt, Nevada. One famous scene involves a fight on top of the moving train between Bronson and former prizefighter boxing champ Archie Moore which was filmed without stunt doubles.