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This exciting disaster/thriller features an all-star cast. A thousand passengers traveling from Geneva to Stockholm on a luxury express train, learn that there's a terrorist on board carrying a highly infectious plague virus. Read more

Starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson
Director George Pan Cosmatos
Genres Drama

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The Cassandra Crossing

This exciting disaster/thriller features an all-star cast. A thousand passengers traveling from Geneva to Stockholm on a luxury express train, learn that there's a terrorist on board carrying a highly infectious plague virus.

Starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson, Ava Gardner, Lionel Stander, Lee Strasberg, Ingrid Thulin, Ann Turkel, Alida Valli, Burt Lancaster, John Phillip Law
Director George Pan Cosmatos
Studio ITV DVD
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 3 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate PG.gif
Genres Drama
Language English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles None
Released DVD: 28 Feb 2000
Production year: 1976
Format DVD

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  • 1 stars out of 5

    Oh, dear! A terrorist has passed on a deadly plague to the passengers of a luxury express train, which has to be rerouted across a rickety bridge to a deserted concentration camp in order to prevent a worldwide epidemic. Burt Lancaster, the mastermind behind this cunning diversion, had the right idea when he suggested blowing the train to smithereens — ideally with the film inside. There were better effects and more thrills in Gromit's train chase with the penguin in The Wrong Trousers. Like Lancaster, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ingrid Thulin and Ava Gardner should have known better.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Dire thriller about the dangers of bacteriological research, with an international rag-bag of stars mouthing dialogue... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    So kitsch and so good !

    This film is probably one of the worst films ever produced on Earth.

    That might be why I so like it.

    It'over the top from Scene 1 to the end, it looks very old fashioned in any way but still it's one of my favorite disaster movie ever.

    If you don't like this kind of film, watch it anyway, at least you will laugh !!

      • A customer from Reading, England
      • Posted 13 Apr 2005 12:40

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    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    All Star Cast Disaster Movie!!

    This wonderfully kitsch film is as creaky as the bridge over the Cassandra Crossing of the title. A host of famous stars - all with the usual disaster movie hang-ups - gather together on a 'luxury' train with an unwelcome guest in the form of a terrorist carrying a biological weapon of mass destruction. The film was pretty mediocre back in 1976 and age has not improved it. That said, it's fun to watch Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster ham it up for all its worth and the 'hero double act' of Sophia Loren and Richard Harris. Martin Sheen and OJ Simpson give the old-timers able support - and there's a cute dog too. One for the pizza and beer and nothing else to do brigade...

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