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Avalanche Express is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Monte Hellman released in USA on 29 september 1979 with Lee Marvin
Avalanche Express (1979)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 29 september 1979
Length 1h28
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Rating49%
Avalanche Express is a 1979 cold war adventure thriller film produced and directed by Mark Robson, about the struggle over a defecting Russian general. It starred Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw (in his last performance), Maximilian Schell, and Linda Evans. The screenplay by Abraham Polonsky was based on the novel by Colin Forbes. Both Shaw and Robson died near the end of shooting.
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Russian general Marenkov (Robert Shaw) decides to defect to the West, and CIA agent Harry Wargrave (Lee Marvin) leads the team that is to get him out. Wargrave decides that Marenkov should travel across Europe by train, on the fictional "Avalanche Express". The idea is to lure the Russians into attacking the train, and thus discover who their secret agents in Europe are. Consequently, during the train journey they must survive both a terrorist attack and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin (Maximilian Schell).Actors
Lee Marvin
(Harry Wargrave)
Robert Shaw
(General Markenkov)
Linda Evans
(Else Lang)
Maximilian Schell
(Colonel Nikolai Bunin)
Horst Buchholz
(Scholten)
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