Movie starts out with a fairly standard, violent train robbery starring Charles Bronson. But wait, is that super-handsome Alain Delon in the black hat?
Now right there you've probably got enough manliness to carry a movie.
But who's stashed away in the one train car the robbers haven't investigated yet? None other than Toshiro Mifune as the Japanese ambassador's personal security detail. Pay attention to his first closeup. Boom. There's your movie star. And I mean Capital S-T-A-R.
They say Mifune's dialogue was always dubbed in his English-language movies. Who cares. Just watch the guy's face. He could have been a silent movie star or been dubbed in French. He'd still be the greatest.
As events have it, Bronson and Mifune team up in what amounts to a western-comedy buddy pic to get revenge on Delon and grab the stolen loot.
Bronson plays his character with a nice comedic touch, which is a perfect balance to Mifune's smoldering intensity.
We are truly living in the golden age of television when I can plug in my pirate stick and find a movie from a half-century ago that I had never head of, with this cast (I haven't even mentioned Ursula Andress and Capucine), and it exceeds expectations so entertainingly.
Now right there you've probably got enough manliness to carry a movie.
But who's stashed away in the one train car the robbers haven't investigated yet? None other than Toshiro Mifune as the Japanese ambassador's personal security detail. Pay attention to his first closeup. Boom. There's your movie star. And I mean Capital S-T-A-R.
They say Mifune's dialogue was always dubbed in his English-language movies. Who cares. Just watch the guy's face. He could have been a silent movie star or been dubbed in French. He'd still be the greatest.
As events have it, Bronson and Mifune team up in what amounts to a western-comedy buddy pic to get revenge on Delon and grab the stolen loot.
Bronson plays his character with a nice comedic touch, which is a perfect balance to Mifune's smoldering intensity.
We are truly living in the golden age of television when I can plug in my pirate stick and find a movie from a half-century ago that I had never head of, with this cast (I haven't even mentioned Ursula Andress and Capucine), and it exceeds expectations so entertainingly.