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 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.

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.Grade 1987, p. 246.

The movie was shot in Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and France.

250px|right|thumb|The Garabit Viaduct railway arch bridge in southern France that was designed by Gustave Eiffel, was used to represent the fictional "Cassandra Crossing" bridge in Poland which collapses.

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