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The Cassandra Crossing (DVD, 2002)
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Leading Role: Sophia Loren
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Apr 2002
Format: DVD
UPC: 012236125501
Product ID: EPID3409051
Description: This exciting disaster/thriller features an all-star cast, including Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster and O.J. Simpson. A thousand passengers traveling from Geneva to Stockholm on a luxury express t...
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Childhood FaveReview created: 04/09/09
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I'm biased. I have always liked this movie. I am an incredible fan of the seventies disaster movies as well, but this one, which apparently was Italian made, is wholly unique from the Irwin Allen lot.
I would say fans of the 80s Hart to Hart show would get a kick out of this, but who nowadays is nostalgic for Hart to Hart?
Cassandra Crossing became, in my area, one of those weekend vinyl siding movies.
There was a steady rotation of the same half dozen movies every weekend, aired on Saturday or Sunday afternoon, and were sponsored by the local vinyl siding company (being from Mississippi, we got natives like Jerry Clower and eventually Tom Lester of Green Acres to host these things, much to our bemusement).
The cast alone is beyond colorful and international. Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, Lee Strasberg, OJ Simpson, Ava Gardner, Martin Sheen, Lionel Stander, Ann Turkel, Burt Lanchaster and the most delightful Swedish actress virtually unknown to America who locked horns with Lanchaster.
Simpson, Sheen, Gardner and Strasberg contribute to the story, but the entire show is Harris and Loren's as ex-spouses named Jonathan and Jennifer (with Stander named Max, which was his name on Hart to Hart. There ya go).
The plot?
A plague carrier has boarded a train and exposed the passengers to the deadly disease. The plan is to carry the passengers to an isolated location in communist territory, but unbeknownst to the passengers, the bridge they will cross, the Cassandra Crossing, is not believed to be sturdy enough to support the train and could be dangerous.
Yes, the trains change in and out, from cabled to no cables, but it never mattered to me. I have always enjoyed this movie.
When I watched it on disk, I could tell where mere seconds had always been edited from tv airing (Turkel's entire song never aired), but other than that, I practically knew every turn a person would make.
I don't think Lanchaster's line about military figures being popular aired. I didn't recognize it, but never mind.
This is the train movie, to Airport's plane movies, Poseidon's ship movie, Earthquake, Towering Inferno's building movie.
I would say fans of the 80s Hart to Hart show would get a kick out of this, but who nowadays is nostalgic for Hart to Hart?
Cassandra Crossing became, in my area, one of those weekend vinyl siding movies.
There was a steady rotation of the same half dozen movies every weekend, aired on Saturday or Sunday afternoon, and were sponsored by the local vinyl siding company (being from Mississippi, we got natives like Jerry Clower and eventually Tom Lester of Green Acres to host these things, much to our bemusement).
The cast alone is beyond colorful and international. Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, Lee Strasberg, OJ Simpson, Ava Gardner, Martin Sheen, Lionel Stander, Ann Turkel, Burt Lanchaster and the most delightful Swedish actress virtually unknown to America who locked horns with Lanchaster.
Simpson, Sheen, Gardner and Strasberg contribute to the story, but the entire show is Harris and Loren's as ex-spouses named Jonathan and Jennifer (with Stander named Max, which was his name on Hart to Hart. There ya go).
The plot?
A plague carrier has boarded a train and exposed the passengers to the deadly disease. The plan is to carry the passengers to an isolated location in communist territory, but unbeknownst to the passengers, the bridge they will cross, the Cassandra Crossing, is not believed to be sturdy enough to support the train and could be dangerous.
Yes, the trains change in and out, from cabled to no cables, but it never mattered to me. I have always enjoyed this movie.
When I watched it on disk, I could tell where mere seconds had always been edited from tv airing (Turkel's entire song never aired), but other than that, I practically knew every turn a person would make.
I don't think Lanchaster's line about military figures being popular aired. I didn't recognize it, but never mind.
This is the train movie, to Airport's plane movies, Poseidon's ship movie, Earthquake, Towering Inferno's building movie.
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The Cassandra Crossing (2002, DVD, VHS Originally 1976)Review created: 11/30/08
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I purchased this movie because I thought it would be a good suspense movie dealing with a cross-country train from Switzerland bound for Sweden. The movie starts out with action when an ambulance rushes into a specially secure hospital/miltary complex (europes version of the U.S.'s CDC complex) with what appears to be a virus victim, but turn out to be terrorists raiding the complex for a special virus the kills people and has no known antidote. One of the terrorists escapes the complex and finds his way to a train that happens to be traveling across europe to sweden with a thousand passengers abroad the train. This movie has a lot of action in it and I found it to be entertaining for a mid 1970's disaster movie envolving a train going across country (or several european countries in this case)with a deadly passenger spreading a deadly virus to other passengers abroad the train, and how the train officials and U.S. Millitary officials must stop the train by sending the Cassandra Crossing in Poland, an old collapsing steel bridge near an old World War Two concentration camp, where the passengers can be taken until a cure is found for the virus.
I gave this movie an average movie because it had too many slow parts in regarding love stories between certain passengers and I believe the movie's pace could have moved along a bit faster without so much of the love interests.
I believe it could have been a good to excellent movie without the slow love interest points in the movie!
I gave this movie an average movie because it had too many slow parts in regarding love stories between certain passengers and I believe the movie's pace could have moved along a bit faster without so much of the love interests.
I believe it could have been a good to excellent movie without the slow love interest points in the movie!
Review ID: 10000000009546664
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