Avalanche Express (1979)
1h 25m
Running Time
September 27, 1979Release Date
Avalanche Express (1979)
1h 25m
Running Time
September 27, 1979Release Date
Network & Production Companies


Plot.
CIA 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.
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Cast & Crew.

Lee Marvin
Harry Wargrave

Robert Shaw
General Markenkov

Linda Evans
Else Lang

Maximilian Schell
Colonel Nikolai Bunin

Joe Namath
Leroy

Horst Buchholz
Scholten

Mike Connors
Haller

Claudio Cassinelli
Molinari

Kristina Nel
Helga Mann

David Hess
Geiger

Günter Meisner
Rudi Muehler

Sylva Langová
Olga

Cyril Shaps
Sedov

Vladek Sheybal
Zannbin

Arthur Brauss
Neckermann

Sky du Mont
Philip John

Richard Marner
Prachko

Arnold Drummond
Commissar

Paul Glawion
Alfredo

Dan van Husen
Bernardo

Rainer Steffen
1st Policeman

Dieter Groest
2nd Policeman

Hans-Jürgen Leuthen
Dutch Customs Man

Maximilian Wolters
Swiss Officer

Gudo Hoegel
Adjutant of Molinari

Rudolf Waldemar Brem
1st Signal Man

Erland Erlandsen
2nd Signal Man

Walter Kraus
Engineer

Osman Ragheb
Security Agent

Robert Rietti
Marenkov (voice)

Mark Robson
Producer / Director

Colin Forbes
Novel

Jack Cardiff
Director of Photography

Allyn Ferguson
Original Music Composer

Garth Craven
Editor

John Dykstra
Special Effects

Willy Egger
Production Manager

Abraham Polonsky
Screenplay

Jeannie Epper
Stunts

Federico Del Zoppo
Additional Photography / Assistant Camera

Howard A. Anderson
Special Effects

Elke Etzold
Set Decoration

Travis Nixon
Set Decoration

Mickey Sherrard
Costume Design

Monte Hellman
Editor

Jack English
Location Manager

Lynn Guthrie
Associate Producer / Production Manager

Fred Tuch
Production Design

Ago von Sperl
Makeup Artist

Rüdiger von Sperl
Makeup Artist

Harry Caplan
Unit Production Manager

Rudolf Geiger
Production Supervisor

Peter Naguschewski
Second Unit Location Manager

Stefan Zürcher
Production Manager

Don French
Second Assistant Director

Alan Gibbs
Assistant Director

Wieland Liebske
Assistant Director

Jon Paré
Second Assistant Director

Gerald Walsh
Assistant Director

Ralph Aubert
Property Master

Sam Gordon
Property Master

Ed Graves
Art Direction

Eberhard Schwartz
Property Buyer

Wayne Artman
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Tom Beckert
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Fred J. Brown
Sound Effects

Michael Jiron
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Charlie McFadden
Boom Operator

Michele Sharp
Sound Effects

George Stephenson
Sound Mixer

Caryl Wickman
Sound Effects

Jeff Clifford
Special Effects

Peter Dawson
Special Effects

Ross Hahn
Special Effects

Richard O. Helmer
Special Effects

Bill Nipper
Special Effects Assistant

Kevin Pike
Special Effects

Dragomir Stanojević
Special Effects / Stunts

Kit West
Special Effects

Wayne Beauchamp
Special Effects Coordinator

Karl-Heinz Bochnig
Special Effects

Ted Koerner
Special Effects

Tom Lupo
Stunt Coordinator / Stunts

Miomir Radević 'Pigi'
Stunts

Jack Cooper
Stunt Coordinator

Jean Coulter
Stunts

Richard Epper
Stunts

Dean Raphael Ferrandini
Stunts

Dorothy Ford
Stunts

Whitey Hughes
Stunts

Howard A. Anderson III
Director of Photography

Terry Bowen
First Assistant Camera

Brink Brydon
Gaffer

John Cardiff
Assistant Camera

Dick Deats
Grip

Jerry Deats
Grip

Frank Heeney
Gaffer

W.C. 'Chunky' Huse
Grip

Alec Mills
Camera Operator

Barry Peake
Still Photographer

Miki Thomas
Assistant Camera

Michael Waldleitner
Clapper Loader

Renate Arbes
Casting

Anton Eder
Wardrobe Master

Friedel Schröder
Wardrobe Master

Angela Allen
Script Supervisor

Betty Levin
Script Supervisor

Trudy von Trotha
Script Supervisor
Media.




Details.
Release DateSeptember 27, 1979
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
Content RatingPG
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
cia
kgb
avalanche
spying
locomotive
cold war
secret agent
double agent
mole
alps
spy thriller
soviet defector
passenger train
soviet agent
Wiki.
Avalanche Express is a 1979 adventure thriller film starring Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Maximilian Schell and Linda Evans, and produced and directed by Mark Robson. The plot is about the struggle over a defecting Soviet general. The screenplay by Abraham Polonsky was based on a 1977 novel by Colin Forbes. It was the last film for Shaw and Robson, who both died during production in 1978.
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