Ingrid Thulin

Terrifying odyssey of 1,000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train, as it speeds across Europe to the Cassandra Crossing - and certain death. Fleeing from the police, a plague-infested terrorist boards the Geneva to Stockholm Express, and exposes its passengers to the deadly virus. Colonel MacKenzie is called in to handle the situation and contacts a doctor aboard the train, Jonathan Chamberlain who finds the sick man. However, Chamberlain and his wife are unable to get the sick man into a hovering helicopter and he dies. To make sure the plague spreads no further, MacKenzie decides to re-route the train via the Cassandra Crossing, where it will plunge into oblivion. At Nuremburg, the train is completely sealed and pumped with oxygen. The passengers who had contracted the plague suddenly begin to recover as the bacteria is killed by the enriched air. Since the patients are recovering, Dr. Chamberlain argues that there is no need to continue the train's journey to the deadly Cassandra Crossing, but MacKenzie refuses to change the route. Chamberlain races against time to disconnect the cars. He succeeds, but dies as he tries to leap to safety. Seconds later, the Cassandra Crossing bridge collapses and only the disconnected cars remain safe. But now the question is whether any of the bacteria survived?

This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train who are infected with a viral plague by a group of terrorists. Burt Lancaster plays military man Mackenzie, who wants to send the train across a rickety bridge so all the passengers will die, with Mackenzie reasoning the tragedy will give the terrorist movement a bad name. Among the passengers on the train trying to build up antibodies are Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain (Sophia Loren); Nicole (Ava Gardner), who is embroiled in an affair with a younger man named Robby Navarro (Martin Sheen); and Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain (Richard Harris), a physician who wants to save the passengers but ends up duking it out with the terrorists.

Nessa is an archeologist at odds with the establishment and haunted by violent dreams of Celtic sacrifices. She undertakes an adventure by trying to find an ancient relic called "The Danu Amulet."

The lazy son of an Argentinean beef tycoon becomes a heroic soldier while fighting for the French resistance during WWII. Sweeping epic stars Glenn Ford ("The Big Heat," "Blackboard Jungle"), Oscar-winners Charles Boyer ("Gaslight"), Lee J. Cobb ("How the West Was Won," "The Brothers Karamazov") and Paul Lukas ("Watch on the Rhine," "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"). Directed by the brilliant Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli ("Gigi," "An American in Paris"). With internationally-acclaimed stars Ingrid Thulin ("The Silence," "The Damned") and Paul Henreid ("Casablanca").