

Avalanche Express
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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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- 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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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
1- J3.5/10
John Chard
9/26/2014
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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