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Bookmark this pageThe Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
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From Time Out Film Guide
Dire thriller about the dangers of bacteriological research, with an international rag-bag of stars mouthing dialogue of supreme banality as an intercontinental express is summarily rerouted to a former concentration camp after passengers are exposed to a deadly pneumonic plague virus as a result of an abortive terrorist raid on the International Health Organisation in Geneva. Naturally a bridge en route is crumbling, and just to add a turn of the screw to the histrionics, one of the passengers happens to be an ex-inmate of the concentration camp. Unbelievable tosh.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Producer: Lew Grade, Carlo Ponti
Cast: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen, Ingrid Thulin, Lee Strasberg, John Phillip Law, Lionel Stander full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 129 mins
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