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Avalanche Express

The Fast Track For All-Star Adventure.

4.8(49)19791h 25m2

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
EN
  • central intelligence agency (cia)
  • espionage
  • locomotive
  • cold war
  • kgb
  • secret agent
  • double agent
  • mole
  • alps mountains
  • avalanche
  • spy thriller
  • soviet defector

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Behind the camera

Director

Mark Robson

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG29 Sept 1979
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1227 Sept 1979
  • IrelandIE

    • TheatricalPG27 Sept 1979

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Avalanche Express was released on 27 September 1979.

Audience reviews

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    John Chard

    9/26/2014

    3.5/10

    Stop the train, I want to get off. Awful attempt at blending a political thriller with disaster movie shenanigans, Avalanche Express is also a sad end to the careers of Robert Shaw (Jaws/The Sting) and Mark Robson (The Seventh Victim/Bedlam). Both of whom died during the production. Plot essentially sees Shaw's Soviet official, Marenkov, defecting to the west whilst aiming to kill off his homeland's biological …

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