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• Genre: Thriller
• Movie Type: Disaster Film, Action Thriller
• Themes: Race Against Time, Train Rides, Terrorism
• Director: George Pan Cosmatos
• Main Cast: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen
• Release Year: 1976
• Country: IT/WG/US
• Run Time: 126 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train who are infected with a viral plague by a group of terrorists. Burt Lancaster plays military man Mackenzie, who wants to send the train across a rickety bridge so all the passengers will die, with Mackenzie reasoning the tragedy will give the terrorist movement a bad name. Among the passengers on the train trying to build up antibodies are Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain (Sophia Loren); Nicole (Ava Gardner), who is embroiled in an affair with a younger man named Robby Navarro (Martin Sheen); and Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain (Richard Harris), a physician who wants to save the passengers but ends up duking it out with the terrorists. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Sophia Loren - Jennifer
• Richard Harris - Chamberlain
• Ava Gardner - Nicole
• Burt Lancaster - MacKenzie
• Martin Sheen - Navarro

Ingrid Thulin - Elena; Lee Strasberg - Kaplan; John Phillip Law - Stack; Ann Turkel - Susan; O.J. Simpson - Father Haley; Lionel Stander - Conductor; Raymond Lovelock - Tom; Alida Valli - Mrs. Chadwick; Lou Castel - Driver; Stefano Patrizi - Attendant; Fausta Avelli - Katherine; Candice Bergen; Carlo de Mejo - Patient; Thomas Hunter - Capt. Scott

Credit

Giuseppe Banchelli - Makeup; Adrianna Berselli - Costume Designer; Françoise Bonnot - Editor; George Pan Cosmatos - Director; George Pan Cosmatos - Screenwriter; Aurelio Crugnola - Art Director; Aldo Gasparri - Special Effects; Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score); Lew Grade - Producer; Ennio Guarnieri - Cinematographer; Tom Mankiewicz - Screenwriter; Carlo Ponti - Producer; Tazio Secciaroli - Camera Operator; Tazio Secciaroli - Special Effects; Roberto Silvi - Editor; Jean Pieuchot - Production Manager; Antonio Gabrielli - First Assistant Director; Tony Brandt - First Assistant Director; Mario Van Riel - Makeup; Carlo Palmieri - Sound/Sound Designer; Robert Katz - Screenwriter

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