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Tom Gries has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s.
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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.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland
When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war against the Yaqui Indians. When Lyedecker attempts to intervene, he is thrown into prison as well. Working together, the two escape and take refuge in the hills, where Lyedecker meets beautiful Yaqui freedom fighter Sarita and begins to question his allegiances.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds