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CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
- 4.7
- 1979
- Released
- 1h 25m
Lee Marvin
Harry Wargrave
Robert Shaw
General Markenkov
Linda Evans
Else Lang
Maximilian Schell
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Joe Namath
Leroy
Horst Buchholz
Scholten
Mike Connors
Haller
Claudio Cassinelli
Molinari
Kristina Nel
Helga Mann
David Hess
Geiger
Günter Meisner
Rudi Muehler
Sylva Langová
Olga
Cyril Shaps
Sedov
Vladek Sheybal
Zannbin
Arthur Brauss
Neckermann
Sky du Mont
Philip John
Richard Marner
PrachkoArnold Drummond
Commissar
Paul Glawion
Alfredo
Dan van Husen
BernardoRainer Steffen
1st Policeman
Dieter Groest
2nd PolicemanHans-Jürgen Leuthen
Dutch Customs ManMaximilian Wolters
Swiss Officer
Gudo Hoegel
Adjutant of Molinari
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
1st Signal ManErland Erlandsen
2nd Signal ManWalter Kraus
EngineerOsman Ragheb
Security Agent
Robert Rietti
Marenkov (voice)
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Stop the train, I want to get off. Awful attempt at blending a political thriller with disaster movie shenanigans, Avalanche Express is also a sad end to the careers of Robert Shaw (Jaws/The Sting) and Mark Robson (The Seventh Victim/Bedlam). Both of whom died during the production. Plot essentially sees Shaw's Soviet official, Marenkov, defecting to the west whilst aiming to kill off his ho