Top billed cast

1. 

   Lee Marvin

   Harry Wargrave

2. 

   Robert Shaw

   General Markenkov

3. 

   Linda Evans

   Else Lang

4. 

   Maximilian Schell

   Colonel Nikolai Bunin

5. 

   Joe Namath

   Leroy

6. 

   Horst Buchholz

   Scholten

7. 

   Mike Connors

   Haller

8. 

   Claudio Cassinelli

   Molinari

9. 

   Kristina Nel

   Helga Mann

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2014-09-26

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 homeland's biological weapons programme in the process. Basically putting himself up as bait to flesh out the baddies, Marenkov is being protected by Lee Marvin's CIA agent Harry Wargrave and his pals. ...read the rest

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12. Super 867%
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19. Spectre66%
20. The Bourne Ultimatum74%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• central intelligence agency (cia)
• espionage
• locomotive
• cold war
• kgb
• secret agent
• double agent
• mole
• alps mountains
• avalanche
• spy thriller
• soviet defector
• passenger train
• soviet agent