Considering the strength of its cast, this is a disappointingly passionless account of an infamous true-life case in which an official of America's United Mine Workers put his life in danger by challenging for its presidency. Granite-faced Charles Bronson, a former Pennsylvania mine-worker himself, is ideally cast in the lead, and writer Scott Spencer (working from Trevor Armbrister's book) plays a cameo role as a minister. Directed on location in Pittsburgh and Toronto by Britain's John Mackenzie, who also made 'The Long Good Friday'.


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