The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg and O. J. Simpson.
Passengers aboard a European transcontinental train bound from Geneva to Stockholm are infected with a bacterial plague from a Swedish terrorist, who is fleeing a botched attack on the U.S. mission at the fictional International Health Organiza...
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The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg and O. J. Simpson.
Passengers aboard a European transcontinental train bound from Geneva to Stockholm are infected with a bacterial plague from a Swedish terrorist, who is fleeing a botched attack on the U.S. mission at the fictional International Health Organization.
U.S. Colonel Stephen Mackenzie wants to send the train across an abandoned ex-Nazi railroad line to a quarantine camp in Janov, Poland. The twist, however, is that the line crosses a dangerously unsound steel arch bridge known as the Cassandra Crossing. Mackenzie understands that the bridge might collapse as the train passes over it. He reasons that, if the train does not make it across the bridge, he can lay the blame for the situation on the terrorists.
The passengers include Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain and his ex-wife Jennifer Rispoli...
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