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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
Themes
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- espionage
- locomotive
- cold war
- kgb
- secret agent
- double agent
- mole
- alps mountains
- avalanche
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- Duration
- 88
- FilmAffinity ID
- 455838
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- publication date
- 1981-01-30
- title
- Avalanche Express
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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 avalanchesFilms about bioterrorismFilms about railway accidents and incidentsFilms about terrorism in EuropeFilms based on British novelsFilms based on thriller novelsFilms directed by Mark RobsonFilms scored by Allyn FergusonFilms set in AmsterdamFilms set in BelgiumFilms set in ItalyFilms set in MilanFilms set in Switzerland