I love this movie!!! One of Bronsons best, because of its credibility. As much as this is, based on a true story, there has to be a few fictionous scenes in it.
When Carl weathers hurls the grenade over Johnsons cabin, and it blows up, how does Johnson survive. The only way he'd survive is if he dug a hole so deep that went through under the wall, and he was outside while it exploded. I'm sorry, but this scene sought of spoiled it for me.
Oddly enough, that's one of the few things in the movie that is actually true to the real life story. The mounties did string a few sticks of dynamite together, after first warming them so as they would work in the cold conditions (I believe they thawed them in their coats rather than by a fire though), and then proceeded to blow up Johnson's cabin. Albert Johnson survived the explosion because he had taken refuge is a small foxhole that he had dug into the floor, which had protected him from the explosion and the collapse of what was left of the cabin. So as far as the film goes, I just assume that Bronson did the same.
It is kinda funny that one of the parts of the story that the film is actually true to appears to be one that most people have the hardest time believing...
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