The Cassandra Crossing

**madeleymade** · 02-04-2012, 03:55 PM

Anyone like this film? Expensive Eurotrash that because it is funded by Lew Grade and ITC, feels as if it is happening in Birmingham. Richard Harris plays it well. Burt Lnacatser and Ava Gardner look flummoxed. Look- its Ray Lovelock from the Manchester Morgue having to listen to the awful singing voice of Ann Turkel. A toy train falls of a bridge. And there's a cracking score by Jerry Goldsmith.

**thehamish** · 03-04-2012, 12:11 PM

Love this, along with Avalanche Express. Source Code was plop, we need a new train-set thriller!!
And lets not forget Martin Sheen's junkie gigolo!!! Sweaty & fidgety aint a sexy look......

**TheRoadWarrior** · 07-04-2012, 01:39 PM

It's ages since I saw this, had to look at Youtube to get an angle on it.

Yes, I like this film, Burt Lancaster is a fav'. (THE TRAIN is a great movie, one of the best I've seen and in my top 10 of all time) , watched Richard Harris in Cromwell recently, put these two dudes in a film and it's hard to imagine it failing.

But damn, I know I've seen this, and despite the Youtube clips, it's largely a blank. Oh well, it''ll turn up on TV and the memories will come flooding back.

**madeleymade** · 07-04-2012, 02:55 PM

It is very strange . There's something oddlhy British about it, despite only one halfbritish cast member Lovelock and a British resident in the otherwise Irish Harris. The Itc backing, the grim Sunday morning trip to Nans in Solihull look of it, everything

**Ninja Dixon** · 07-04-2012, 08:11 PM

Excellent - in it's own way. I love the casting, the semi-depressive ending and that fact that it's Swedish terrorists causing all the problems. I would use the word "underrated" for this kinda forgotten disaster-thriller.

**madeleymade** · 08-04-2012, 03:25 PM

Exactly, I wish there were morre films like it. Juggernaut also with Harris is much more British, with a cast of people like a young Anthony Hopkisn, Freddie Jones Julian Glover roy kinnear and, well pretty much every actor in Britain, it seems.

**thehamish** · 09-04-2012, 01:26 PM

It turns up every 2 months it seems at the moment (on TV...) so it's always worth waiting. My favourite "disaster movie" really.

**thehamish** · 20-04-2012, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by thehamish

It turns up every 2 months it seems at the moment (on TV...) so it's always worth waiting. My favourite "disaster movie" really.

ahem, as promised............... tis on 5US tomorrow (Saturday 21st) at 15.10 GMT, let the train take the strain....

**TheRoadWarrior** · 20-04-2012, 06:57 PM

... still switching channels trying to catch this~

**thehamish** · 23-04-2012, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by TheRoadWarrior

... still switching channels trying to catch this~

Never thought, twas repeated the day after at 12.10 GMT as well. Still an odd watch really....

**Oscar Deutsch** · 23-04-2012, 05:43 PM

Caught this the other afternoon too. Was cut to buggery - almost of all the fairly mild carnage shots from the interior of the train during the crash were deleted. Boo!

**anyendup** · 23-04-2012, 05:50 PM

LOVE THIS film.

love any disaster related film be it trains etc.

it has a pretty good cast to boot.

trashy i like trashy.

Originally Posted by madeleymade

Anyone like this film? Expensive Eurotrash that because it is funded by Lew Grade and ITC, feels as if it is happening in Birmingham. Richard Harris plays it well. Burt Lnacatser and Ava Gardner look flummoxed. Look- its Ray Lovelock from the Manchester Morgue having to listen to the awful singing voice of Ann Turkel. A toy train falls of a bridge. And there's a cracking score by Jerry Goldsmith.