The Cassandra Crossing
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| Directed by | George Pan Cosmatos |
| Produced by |
Carlo Ponti G. Pettini (executive) Sir Lew Grade (uncredited) |
| Screenplay by |
Tom Mankiewicz Robert Katz George Pan Cosmatos |
| Story by |
Robert Katz George Pan Cosmatos |
| Starring |
Sophia Loren Richard Harris Burt Lancaster Martin Sheen O.J. Simpson Lee Strasberg Ava Gardner |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Ennio Guarnieri |
| Edited by |
Roberto Silvi Françoise Bonnot |
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| Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
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Release date
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8 October 1976 |
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Running time
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129 Minutes |
| Country | Italy United Kingdom West Germany |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million or $6 million |
The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 Technicolor Italian-British disaster/thriller film in Panavision directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg, Ava Gardner and O. J. Simpson about an infected Swedish terrorist who plagues a train's passengers as they head to a derelict arch bridge.
With the backing of the European media tycoon Sir Lew Grade (the head of the British broadcast network ATV) and the Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the international all-star cast was expected to attract a widespread audience, with rights sold prior to filming, to both British and American distributors. Ponti also saw the production as a showcase for his wife, Sophia Loren.
When the existence of a strain of plague (vaguely identified as pneumonic) is revealed at the U.S. mission at the International Health Organization, three terrorists seek to blow up the U.S. mission. Two of them are shot, one mortally, by security personnel but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalized and quarantined and identified as Swedish. Dr. Elena Stradner (Ingrid Thulin) and U.S. Colonel Stephen Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) (Military Intelligence assigned to the IHO) argue over the nature of the strain, which Stradner suspects is a biological weapon but which Colonel Mackenzie claims was in the process of being destroyed.
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