In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness. On a freezing day of December in 1931, the greyed recluse and well-experienced fur trapper, Albert Johnson, while descending to town to get provisions, he interrupts an organised dogfight to save a mortally wounded canine. Disgraced before his comrades, the dog breeder demands that Johnson be arrested for manslaughter, forcing the hardened man of the law, the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant, Edgar Millen, to hesitantly bring an armed-to-the-teeth posse on his doorstep. Under those circumstances, Johnson will attempt to flee to the sanctuary of the Alaskan borders through the rugged and snow-capped landscape; however, the trigger-happy executors are within a hair's breadth of taking him down. Will the killings in the name vengeance ever stop? In the proud tradition of "Chino" and "Chato's Land" Bronson takes on a frenzied mob of gun toting, kill happy slugs and a huge exchange of lead takes place. There's plenty of action for even the most diehard of high energy flic lovers, a good story to boot, and the landscape is to die for. Thumbs up! Charles Bronson is an ex-patriot of the United States who travels to the Yukon to escape his past. He gets on the bad side of a group of trappers, kills one of them in self-defense, and is wrongfully accused of murder. Lee Marvin as a veteran Mountie, Carl Weathers, and fresh from training Mountie Andrew Stevens set out to track Bronson down as he tries to escape into Alaska.<br/><br/>The acting in this film is sensational, the settings are true to life, and the story is riveting. A must see!
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