The Cassandra Crossing
The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 disaster thriller movie directed by George Pan Cosmatos, produced by Carlo Ponti and starring his wife Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg and O. J. Simpson. The movie is about a disease-infected Swedish terrorist who infects a train's passengers with the pneumonic plague as they travel across Europe and head to a crumbling arch bridge.
| The Cassandra Crossing | |
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| Directed by | George Pan Cosmatos |
| Screenplay by | Tom Mankiewicz Robert Katz George Pan Cosmatos |
| Story by | Robert Katz George Pan Cosmatos |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti Lew Grade |
| Starring | Sophia Loren Richard Harris Burt Lancaster Ava Gardner Martin Sheen O. J. Simpson Lee Strasberg |
| Cinematography | Ennio Guarnieri |
| Edited by | Roberto Silvi Françoise Bonnot |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
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| Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
Release date | 18 December 1976 (Italy & Japan) / 9 February 1977 (USA) / 31 March 1977 (UK) |
Running time | 129 Minutes |
| Countries | Italy United Kingdom West Germany |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million[1] or $6 million[2] |
| Box office | $15,300,000 (Japan) SEK 152,111 (Sweden) |
The reviews from the movie critics were very negative. In the movie-review website Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a low score of 30% based on ten reviews.[3]
The Cassandra Crossing, however, still made money at the box office, which was more than the movie budget. The producers claimed that they covered the production costs of the movie out of Japan alone.[1][4]
The movie was shot in Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and France.
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change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Walker 1985, p. 197.
- ↑ Tuohy, William. "Ava Gardner: Still that certain something." Los Angeles Times, 9 May 1976, p. s1.
- ↑ "The Cassandra Crossing". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ↑ Grade 1987, p. 246.
