Main Cast: Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Michael Connors
Release Year: 1979
Country: US
Run Time: 89 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
Lee Marvin plays a CIA agent who lures a Soviet biological warfare expert aboard a European train in the hopes of murdering the expert, thus eliminating a world threat. Things go awry when the train is caught in an avalanche. ~ All Movie Guide
Joe Namath - Leroy; Horst Buchholz - Scholten; David Hess - Geiger; Arthur Brauss - Neckermann; Kristina Nel - Helga Mann; Sylvia Langova - Olga; Günter Meisner - Muehier
Credit
Lynn H. Guthrie - Associate Producer, Michey Shirard - Costume Designer, Wieland Liebske - First Assistant Director, Mark Robson - Director, Garth Craven - Editor, Allyn Ferguson - Composer (Music Score), Fred Tuch - Production Designer, Jack Cardiff - Cinematographer, Mark Robson - Producer, John Dykstra - Special Effects, Abraham Polonsky - Screenwriter, Colin Forbes - Book Author
A cold war adventure thriller about a defecting Russian scientist, the film is remembered for the deaths of its main principals during production: director (Robson) and co-leading actor (Shaw).
During production, co-star Robert Shaw was driving with his wife when he started having chest pains and died of a heart attack. Most of his lines were dubbed as his voice was ailing and declining rapidly during the production. Director Mark Robson also died suddenly of a heart attack several months earlier. It is thought that Monte Hellman took over the directorial reins after Robson's death; Hellman, however, is not credited in the film.
