Avalanche Express
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4.8CIA 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.
Released: 1979-09-2785 minDir: Mark RobsonAction, Thriller
Cast
- Lee Marvin as Harry Wargrave
- Robert Shaw as General Markenkov
- Linda Evans as Else Lang
- Maximilian Schell as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
- Joe Namath as Leroy
- Horst Buchholz as Scholten
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Key dates
- Published
- 30 January 1981
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- disaster film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Alps
- Director
- Monte Hellman
- Screenwriter
- Abraham Polonsky
- Cast member
- Robert Riettii
- Composer
- Allyn Ferguson
- Producer
- Mark Robson
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1970s action thriller films1970s spy thriller films1979 American films1979 English-language films1979 filmsAmerican action thriller filmsAmerican disaster filmsAmerican spy thriller filmsCold War spy filmsEnglish-language action thriller filmsEnglish-language spy thriller filmsFilms about avalanches