The Fear Is Spreading
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Sep 20216/10
_**The Horror Express**_ A passenger train traveling from Geneva, Switzerland, to Stockholm, Sweden, is infected by a strain of pneumonic plague via a terrorist. Under questionable orders, the US Colonel in charge of the situation (Burt Lancaster) reroutes the train to Poland where it has to cross a long defunct steel arch bridge. “The Cassandra Crossing” (1976) is a disaster thriller that’s part train movie and part plague flick. It’s not great like the later “Runaway Train” (1985) nor as good as “Outbreak” (1995), but it’s almost on par with “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory” (1995). Besides Lancaster as the Colonel, the impressive cast includes: Ingrid Thulin as the doctor the Colonel contends with; Richard Harris as a famous neurologist; Sophia Loren his ex-wife; Lee Strasberg a Holocaust survivor; Ava Gardner a wealthy aging lady; Martin Sheen her dubious boy toy; OJ Simpson a “priest”; Ann Turkel a hippie-ish musician; and John Phillip Law the Colonel’s subordinate. Comparing this to the highest standard of 70’s disaster flicks, “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972), it’s just not as compelling because “Poseidon” has superior human interest, a more remarkable challenge and better wome
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Cast
- Sophia LorenJennifer Rispoli Chamberlain
- Richard HarrisDr. Jonathan Chamberlain
- Martin SheenRobby Navarro
- O. J. SimpsonHaley
- Ava GardnerNicole Dressler
- Burt LancasterCol. Stephen Mackenzie
- Lionel StanderMax, the Train Conductor
- Ann TurkelSusan
- Ingrid ThulinDr. Elena Stradner
- Lee StrasbergHerman Kaplan
Crew
- George P. CosmatosDirector
- Tom MankiewiczScreenplay
- George P. CosmatosScreenplay
- Robert KatzScreenplay
- Ennio GuarnieriDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Roberto SilviEditor
- Françoise BonnotEditor
- Carlo PontiProducer
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