Robsons last film was avalanche express 1979, a cold war thriller that. During the journey they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by russian spycatcher nikolai bunin. Slight edge wear, some wrinkling throughout, slight creasing in corners, slight scuffing and lower borders, singlesided. One of those awful defectoronthetrain movies that are so bad that they are watchable. If you like avalanche express you are looking for exciting, rough and serious movies about with espionage, train, cia, kgb, avalanche, heroes and secret agents themes of action and thriller genre shot in ireland or usa. Aug 01, 2019 my plan is to force bunin to destroy himself. Avalanche express 1979 soviet kgb general marenkov defects to the americans and together with his cia handler harry wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the kgb agents in europe.
Avalanche express 1979, avalanche express, disaster film. His voice was so weak and his delivery was so shaky because of his illness that his voice was dubbed by robert rietty, although rich little also dubbed three words near the end of the picture harry, come on and six words in shaws own voice were deemed usable too hot in that train and harry. Starring lee marvin, robert shaw, linda evans, and maximilian schell. Robsons last film was avalanche express 1979, a cold war thriller that starred lee marvin and robert shaw. Display as images display as list make and model make and year year category importancerole date added new ones first episode appearance ep.
Avalanche express 1979 movie posters, original movie. Avalanche express original theatrical trailer youtube. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across europe, the atlantic express. This movie hit the screens on october 19 1979 starring lee marvin as col harry wargrave, robert shaw as general marenkov and linda evans as elsa lang. Robert shaw, a russian agent, defects and hops onto a dutch train aided by a team of american agents led by lee marvin. Robert shaw the jaws stars final film is the calculating, freedombound marenkov.
A highly talented actor and writer was lost during the filming of avalanche express. Avalanche express 1979 ganzer film deutsch hd filme online. On a lifeordeath mission, an elite team of espionage agents musttransport a russian defector, while enemy spies, double agent and forcesof nature conspire to kill the man as they speed across a frozen europeaboard a train dubbed the avalanche express. Avalanche express 1979 directed by mark robson, monte. But with lee marvin aboard the avalanche express you can be certain that the entertainment and the thrills are guaranteed. Avalanche express the 1979 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. During the journey they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by russian spy. Avalanche express 1979 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of. Lee marvin, who stars in the movie, is mentioned in the novel the movie is based on. If you like avalanche express you are looking for exciting, rough and serious movies about with espionage, train, cia, kgb, avalanche, heroes and secret agents. Slight edge wear, some wrinkling throughout, slight creasing in corners, slight scuffing and. Avalanche express 1979 film complet en francais a 201709t02.
If you watch avalanche express then, stylistically at least, youve seen every thriller ever made. Avalanche express, movie, 1979 pictures provided by. Avalanche express on dvd 883316342916 from warner bros. Official theatrical movie poster for avalanche express 1979. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. Lee marvin leads the squad in a lethal locomotive actioner. Allstar thrillercumsemidisaster movie avalanche express turned into something of a reallife disaster when director mark robson and costar robert shaw died during production, leaving monte hellman and gene corman to finish the film and robert rietty and, for three words, rich little dubbing robert shaw, whose voice was so weak during production only six words were usable. Avalanche express 1979 stream and watch online moviefone. Avalanche express is a film directed by mark robson, monte hellman with lee marvin, robert shaw, linda evans, maximilian schell, year. Avalanche express is a 1979 cold war adventure thriller film produced and directed by mark robson and starring lee marvin, robert shaw, maximilian schell, and linda evans. An original onesheet movie poster 27 x 41 from 1979 for avalanche express. The idea is to lure the russians into attacking the train and thus discover who their secret agents in europe are. Robert shaw passed away before the film was released. Marenkov, decides to defect to the west, cia agent harry wargrave is sent to lead the team to get him out.
The fast track for allstar adventure cia agent harry wargrave marvin is sent to aid gen. Avalanche express, movie, 1979 internet movie cars database. Commandos are out to stop harry and a new weapon may be deployed in this patriot game. I really enjoyed avalanche express, for one its got great acting by some great actors who were, by this point, a little past their time,lee marvin,robert shaw, but thats a good thing, because it shows that out of date actors can act. Starring lee marvin, robert shaw, linda evans, joe namath. When the head of the kgb,general marenkov robert shaw, defects to the westwith informationabout soviet biological weaponscia agent harry. Malenkov reveals that the russians are trying to develop. Overview of avalanche express, 1979, directed by mark robson, with lee marvin, robert shaw, linda evans, at turner classic movies. Russian general marenkov robert shaw decides to defect to the west and cia agent harry wargrave lee marvin leads the team that is to get him out. Avalanche express movie posters from movie poster shop. Indeed, though the abe polonsky screenplay is based on a. Its hard to define whats specifically bad about it.
Avalanche express 1979 film complet en francais film. Avalanche express is a film directed by mark robson, monte hellman and starring lee marvin, robert shaw, linda evans. Senior russian official general malenkov wants to defect to the western part of russia. A cia operative sent in to intercept a russian defector races back across europe with deadly soviet agents in hot pursuit. All avalanche express movie posters,high res movie posters image for avalanche express. Just log on to your verizon account and watch the latest shows online. Avalanche express dvd 1979 region 1 us import ntsc. Avalanche express 1979 vintage original movie poster u. Academy award winner lee marvin plays dutiful, cynical. Buy avalanche express movie posters from movie poster shop. It has good action scenes, especially the avalanche although it looks phony by todays standards.
Malenkov reveals that the russians are trying to develop biological weapons. The screenplay by abraham polonsky was based on a 1977 novel by colin forbes. Released 1979, avalanche express stars robert shaw, lee marvin, linda evans, maximilian schell the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 28 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. Avalanche express 1979 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Avalanche express is a 1979 action thriller directed by mark robson. Avalanche express buy, rent or watch on fandangonow. Avalanche express 1979 avalanche express 1979 user. As junk movie melodramas go, avalanche express is of a notquiteallstar tackiness that should make sir lew grade furious with envy. Oct 19, 1979 as junk movie melodramas go, avalanche express is of a notquiteallstar tackiness that should make sir lew grade furious with envy. Robert shaw was very ill during filming and died during its production. A wouldbe epic cold war actioner, avalanche express is one of those all starcast 70s disasterstyle movies. Awful attempt at blending a political thriller with disaster movie shenanigans, avalanche express is also a sad end to the careers of robert shaw jawsthe sting and mark robson the seventh victimbedlam. Avalanche express 1979 original onesheet movie poster. During postproduction work on the movie, robson suffered a fatal heart attack.
Avalanche express is a 1979 cold war adventure thriller film produced and directed by mark robson and starring lee marvin, robert shaw, maximilian schell. Lee marvin plays a cia agent who lures a soviet biological warfare expert aboard a european train in the hopes of murdering the expert, thus eliminating a world threat. But with lee marvin aboard the avalanche express you can be certain that the entertainment and the. Other articles where avalanche express is discussed. Sent to retrieve a russian defector robert shaw at the height of the cold war, cia agent harry wargrave marvin is stunned by the. Wargrave decides that marenkov should travel across europe by train, on the fictional avalanche express. The plot is about the struggle over a defecting russian general.
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