Review of The Cassandra Crossing (1976) by Adam B — 23 Jun 2008
Quite a slow burner this one. It starts very slowly with a plague victim infecting a trainload of passengers on their way through Switzerland. Cue onboard doctor Richard Harris who becomes the only person to help the fated passengers.
Beutifully shot and directed, The Cassandra Crossing is a bit of a lost classic. You could easily dismiss it as just another 70's disaster movie with an eclectic cast like Meteor or The Poseidon Adventure, but its much more than that. Yes its got the strange guest cast (OJ and Martin Sheen?) but it also has adecent storyline.
The final 10 minutes are quite shocking as well if you're not quite ready for it, because when the train goes over the bridge into the ravine, bodies are dismembered and people are crushed in quite a brutal fashion. The sight of bodies floating in the river is also quite gruesome if you're not quite ready for it!
This review of The Cassandra Crossing (1976) was written by Adam B on 23 Jun 2008.
The Cassandra Crossing has generally received mixed reviews.
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