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The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

R 12/18/1976 Action, Thriller 2h 9m
63%
User
Score
6.3/10
42%
30/100

The Fear Is Spreading

Overview

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

George P. Cosmatos

Director

Tom Mankiewicz

Screenplay

Robert Katz

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren

Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain

Richard Harris

Richard Harris

Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen

Robby Navarro

O. J. Simpson

O. J. Simpson

Haley

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner

Nicole Dressler

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster

Col. Stephen Mackenzie

Lionel Stander

Lionel Stander

Max, the Train Conductor

Ann Turkel

Ann Turkel

Susan

Ingrid Thulin

Ingrid Thulin

Dr. Elena Stradner

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Media

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written on September 27, 2021

_**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 hi...

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