Watch The Cassandra Crossing (1976) Free Online

Release Date: 1976

Cast: Sophia Loren, Ray Lovelock, John Phillip Law, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris, Ingrid Thulin, O. J. Simpson, Martin Sheen, Alida Valli, Lee Strasberg, Burt Lancaster, Lou Castel

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Action/Adventure, Adventure, World cinema, Action, Action Thrillers, Suspense, Disaster

The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster/thriller film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg, Ava Gardner and O. J. Simpson. With the backing of European media tycoon Sir Lew Grade (the head of the British broadcast network ATV) and Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the international all-star cast was expected to attract a widespread audience, with rights sold prior to filming, to both British and American distributors. Ponti also saw the production as a showcase for his wife, Sophia Loren. When... MORE

The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster/thriller film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg, Ava Gardner and O. J. Simpson. With the backing of European media tycoon Sir Lew Grade (the head of the British broadcast network ATV) and Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the international all-star cast was expected to attract a widespread audience, with rights sold prior to filming, to both British and American distributors. Ponti also saw the production as a showcase for his wife, Sophia Loren. When the existence of a strain of plague (vaguely identified as pneumonic) is revealed at the U.S. mission at the International Health Organization, three terrorists seek to blow up the U.S. mission. Two of them are shot, one mortally, by security personnel but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalized and quarantined and identified as Swedish. Dr. Elena Stradner (Ingrid Thulin) and U.S. Colonel Stephen Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) (Military Intelligence assigned to the IHO) argue over the nature of the strain, which Stradner suspects is a biological weapon but which Colonel Mackenzie claims was LESS