AVCO Embassy Pictures
Directed by George Pan Cosmatos
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Timeless Media Group)
A terrorist exposed to the plague stows away on a train traveling across Europe. Burt Lancaster is an American military leader assigned to stop the train at all costs. It is diverted to an abandoned rail line which will take it across an old bridge and likely plunge into the river below. The passengers are at first oblivious to their predicament, until they start getting sick and the train is boarded by men in plastic suits carrying machine guns. Richard Harris is the doctor on board who becomes the leader of the passengers and orchestrates their takeover of the train. Sophia Loren is his ex-wife and love interest. Formulaic 70s disaster plot, complete with model train crash for the big ending, but redeemed somewhat by European location shooting and Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack.
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