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Release Date: 1976

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

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

The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg and O. J. Simpson. The plot hinges on two conflicts. The first concerns the existence of a strain of plague (vaguely identified as pneumonic) at the U.S. mission at the International Health Organization (based on the World Health Organization). Three terrorists seek to blow up the U.S. mission; two are shot, one mortally, by security personnel but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalized and... MORE

The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg and O. J. Simpson. The plot hinges on two conflicts. The first concerns the existence of a strain of plague (vaguely identified as pneumonic) at the U.S. mission at the International Health Organization (based on the World Health Organization). Three terrorists seek to blow up the U.S. mission; two are shot, one mortally, by security personnel but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalized and quarentined 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 in the process of being destroyed. The third terrorist escapes and stows away on a transcontinental train bound from Geneva to Stockholm. Dr. Stradner believes that the train should be stopped so that the terrorist can be removed and quarantined, but Col. Mackenzie is concerned that all of the passengers on the LESS