The Cassandra Crossing -- Disaster

[DrMarcusKane]

1.42 LMFAO - that guy getting skewered by that steel beam was epic!

Total unadulterated train disaster porn! Love this movie!!

[DaveyC95]

Ironically I believe the French authorities had to close at first and then restrict trains crossing the Viaduct de Garabit (that served as The Cassandra Crossing), in recent years for safety reasons due to structural weakening..Now that is creepy.

[vincentyeo88]

@DaveyC95

oh i see, and thank you for this interesting information.

if the French authorities has to close the Viaduct de Garabit for safety reasons, i hope they would conserve that area and rail-tracks as a national heritage site.

[DaveyC95]

@vincentyeo88 Well when they discovered the problem it was closed for a bit, it only had about 1 passenger train PER DAY crossing the single line, more freight trains I would imagine, It has reopened round about now...But it is a really old, because the architect was Eiffel who built the famous tower in Paris...It has been painted red since the film was made and the Garabit valley is very windy..Sorry it is Viaduc de Garabit in France or Garabit viaduct to the British.

[vincentyeo88]

@DaveyC95

thank you very much for sharing this interesting information with the viewers.

[DaveyC95]

@vincentyeo88 You,re very welcome. :-)

[DaveyC95]

All in all the film is good and entertaining, Ava Gardner playing the spoilt rich-bitch diva is funny and Burt Lancaster plays the typical American army general who is a complete, amoral, uncompromising b*****d who believes that European lives are expendable for the greater good to great effect..The only thing that I think is really tasteless is that they decided to send the train to a former Nazi death camp in Poland and the jewish stereotyping must have hit a nerve at the time.

[DaveyC95]

I saw this in the late-80s as a young child and I thought it was scary... It is hammy in some parts, I am typing this as the film is being shown on Film4 at this moment in time, but I don't think it is as bad as a lot of disaster movies and does not deserve the panning it got by the critics..One of them described it as "A movie for cash-strapped over the hill old Hollywood stars" Well I don't call a 41/42 year old Sophia Loren OLD!! or a young Martin Sheen and the legend Richard Harris.

[vincentyeo88]

@DaveyC95

as like you, i'd first watched this excellent movie in a Singapore cinema in the late 1970s when i was young.

well, younger viewers then had mistakenly thought that Burt Lancaster, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, and Sophia Loren were old in this movie.

the young Martin Sheen in this movie later became a great actor when he'd reached middle age.

[DaveyC95]

@vincentyeo88 Yes, I would have thought that back in 1989 when I was 6 probably..Children think that about all adults though, I know I did.

[ExMachina70]

It's safe to assume that OJ caused the death of all those people.

[melkmeisje1973]

Viaduc de Garabit in France ten south east of Saint Flour.Look the pictures and see.

[vincentyeo88]

@melkmeisje1973

thank you for your information.

[GrandeurFrancaise]

the producers of this movie are Lew Grade England and Carlo Ponti, husband of Sophia Loren, Italy. The film begins with images from the station of Basel in Switzerland (not Geneva), the German station of Nuremberg is played in Italy, You Can See the Italian overhead wires, the locomotive is an Italian FS E646 disguised like a Swiss Re 4 / 4 II, The restaurant wagon and the CIWIL are 2 italian BZ 50000 repainted, the bridge is viaduct de Garabit France and the diesel loco is a French BB 66000

[vincentyeo88]

@GrandeurFrancaise

informations intéressantes!

thank you for sharing this interesting information with the viewers.

[Nessiechan]

I cracked up so hard the first time I saw this... I'm not sadistic, I just loved the cheapness of it all xD

[BLGLV]

eh i was watching this movie today on SHO Extreme and i was like, Holy shit.... i would jumo off the damn train when i had a chance... if i could

[karrochan83]

This scene scared me big time as a kid...

[hosdo]

@karrochan83 Me too :D :D

[fourtoeight]

@karrochan83 Hell yeah!! The very reason I looked it up today, just to see if it's still as diabolic as then. It actually is.

[Silvershadow196]

@outatime1955

Me neither!!!

[Sniffy066]

LOL

[alphamone]

1:43

uhhh

thats gotta hurt.

[wladislaw79]

THE TYPE OF ELECTRIFIED CATENARY LINE REMINDS TO ME TO Ligne des Causses, in France

[kanervatie]

I was looking for this film! :) Remember the railroad going trough a man..Yes, this is it.

[YoshiFan300]

All I got to say is this...Cheap Bridge.

[TheNYCDestroyed]

The sound is not in sync.

[TheNYCDestroyed]

One of the best films ever!

[jojostudrock]

lost my virginity at this movie at a drive-in January 28,1977. :)

[pennypay1]

I saw this movie for the first time last week. So suspensful! Awful, crazy fall off that bridge.

[ACLTony]

The train appears to be HO or N scale. It's so ironic that Burt Lancaster was in this film as he was in the classic film "The Train" which was excellent.

[Silvershadow196]

I don't wanna cross that bridge even by foot!!

[Silvershadow196]

I saw that film many times but this endscene still makes my hair stand again and again!

[vincentyeo88]

heck, i won't even want to step my foot on it!

[chrigel1234]

Swiss railroad cars. French bridge. British maintenance. ;-)

[solidsnake2234]

so you are saying that the Brits dont do a good job keeping things together?

[chrigel1234]

When it comes to railroads then it seems...NO. Since the railroads have been privatized, many unnecessary accidents happened.

[Skandinaviaman]

@chrigel1234 i tell that Irony! swiss, french, british is like: good - bad - bullshit

[bermudarailway]

That's British Rail for you !

[wetspandexwoman38]

This film is a classic. A germ infested guy gets on, contaminates the train, the train gets quarrantined by the the World Health Orginization, they all get welded inside and the train and it is sent to any unsafe bridge for derailment. Its a total Classic, if you haven't seen it, watch it in it's entirety. it's good. Sort of a prelude to a film called Outbreak.

[TheNYCDestroyed]

@wetspandexwoman38 Indeed, it is one of the best films ever!

[xwingclass]

@wetspandexwoman38 oh yeah outbreak. it is the old saying you've seen one you've seen them all.

[UFOSPACE1999]

Well i thought The Swarm had visuals but this shit takes the cake.

[vincentyeo88]

ain't need no shit for this movie to beat The Swarm anytime!

[KaTzaNdSTuFf]

wats tis movie about???

[vincentyeo88]

this movie is about a wanted man who has contacted a deadly virus and riding this ill-fated train.

to cut the long story short, this train has to be diverted to a no-man's land and its infected passengers quarantined from civilization. as it turns out, those passengers might be heading to a place of no return.

[keevanhotshot]

reminds me of Derailed.

[vincentyeo88]

thank you for the info. i will try to watch this movie.

[keevanhotshot]

carefull, there are two derailed movies. The one I'm talking about is really old.

[chowspam]

Me too!!

[arrowunderworld]

Damn !! I remember I saw this movie when I was like 10 yars old, so shocking !!

Good, thanks for the upload.

[Roso019]

whow...

[Bellwestern80]

Ooh... Nice