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Release Date: 1979

Cast: Lee Marvin, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Robert Shaw

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Action, Action Thrillers, Disaster, Spy

Avalanche Express is a cold war adventure thriller about a defecting Russian general, released in 1979. It starred Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw (in his last performance), Maximilian Schell, and Linda Evans, and was directed by Mark Robson and Monte Hellman. It is based on a novel by Colin Forbes. Russian general Marenkov (Robert Shaw) decides to defect to the West, and CIA agent Harry Wargrave (Lee Marvin) leads the team that is to get him out. Wargrave decides that Marenkov should travel across Europe by train, on the "Atlantic Express". The idea is to lure the Russians into attacking the... MORE

Avalanche Express is a cold war adventure thriller about a defecting Russian general, released in 1979. It starred Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw (in his last performance), Maximilian Schell, and Linda Evans, and was directed by Mark Robson and Monte Hellman. It is based on a novel by Colin Forbes. Russian general Marenkov (Robert Shaw) decides to defect to the West, and CIA agent Harry Wargrave (Lee Marvin) leads the team that is to get him out. Wargrave decides that Marenkov should travel across Europe by train, on the "Atlantic Express". The idea is to lure the Russians into attacking the train, and thus discover who their secret agents in Europe are. Consequently, during the train journey they must survive both a terrorist attack and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin (Maximilian Schell). During production in Ireland, both director Mark Robson and starring actor Robert Shaw died of heart attacks within weeks of each other. Monte Hellman was brought in to finish the direction, and Gene Corman (Roger Corman's brother) was called in to take over Robson's line producer functions. Robert Rietty was hired to re-voice Robert Shaw's dialogue in the opening scene, LESS