Top Billed Cast

Lee Marvin
Harry Wargrave
Robert Shaw
General Markenkov
Linda Evans
Else Lang
Maximilian Schell
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Joe Namath
Leroy
Horst Buchholz
Scholten
Mike Connors
Haller
Claudio Cassinelli
Molinari
Kristina Nel
Helga Mann
David Hess
Geiger
Günter Meisner
Rudi Muehler
Sylva Langová
Olga
Cyril Shaps
Sedov
Vladek Sheybal
Zannbin
Arthur Brauss
Neckermann
Sky du Mont
Philip John
Richard Marner
Prachko
Arnold Drummond
Commissar
Paul Glawion
Alfredo
Dan van Husen
Bernardo
Rainer Steffen
1st Policeman
Dieter Groest
2nd Policeman
Hans-Jürgen Leuthen
Dutch Customs Man
Maximilian Wolters
Swiss Officer
Gudo Hoegel
Adjutant of Molinari
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
1st Signal Man
Erland Erlandsen
2nd Signal Man
Walter Kraus
Engineer
Osman Ragheb
Security Agent
Robert Rietti
Marenkov (voice)

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A review by John Chard

3.5

Written by John Chard on Fri Sep 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 weapons programme in the process. Basically putting himself up as bait to flesh out the baddies, Marenkov is being protected by Lee Marvin's CIA agent Harry Wargrave and his pals. C...