I can only echo what so many have already said, this is by far Bronson's best. I just want to give a nod to the fine supporting performances that help to elevate this film to the status of B-movie classic. Robert Terrier, always the tough guy, fits the role of "the one to beat" to a tee. (Terrier was actually a decorated Korean war vet who was also an accomplished furinture maker.) And while James Coburn does a fine turn as the slick fight promoter, it is Stother Martin who steals the show as Bronson's corner man, Poe. No one could have delivered the line, "In my third year of medical school a dark cloud appeared over campus and I left under it," quite like Martin.