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
Wargrave
Robert Shaw
Marenkov
Linda Evans
Elsa 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
Mark Robson
Director
Sylva Langová
Olga
Abraham Polonsky
Writer
Cyril Shaps
Sedov
Colin Forbes
Writer
Vladek Sheybal
Zannbin
Arthur Brauss
Neckermann
Sky du Mont
Philip John
Allyn Ferguson
Composer
Richard Marner
Prachko
Garth Craven
Editor
Fred Tuch
ProductionDesigner
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)
Jack Cardiff
Director of Photography
John Dykstra
Special Effects
Willy Egger
Production Manager
Jeannie Epper
Stunts
Federico Del Zoppo
Additional Photography / Assistant Camera
Howard A. Anderson
Special Effects
Monte Hellman
Editor
Elke Etzold
Set Decoration
Mickey Sherrard
Costume Design
Travis Nixon
Set Decoration
Jack English
Location Manager
Lynn Guthrie
Associate Producer / Production Manager
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
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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