the cassandra crossing - the bridge scene (III)

[MsKeith1969]

that train ALMOST made it over the bridge - or, as harry doyle/bob ueker said in major league: "juuuuuuuuuuuust a bit outside!" is it just me or do the guys in the hazmat suits look somewhat like muno on yo gabba gabba!?

[MsKeith1969]

i want to be either sophia loren or the female doctor in the movie!

[spraymalathionjerry]

This was one of the better disaster movies. Great shots of the bridge and music - they really did that very well back in the 1970's; much better than now.

[Nigel16032009]

Had me on the edge of my seat as a kid. Looking at it again more closely there's a shot where you see a rusting track leading on to a steel bridge with some kind of warning sign. At the end when the train is about to cross it the track has a good shine to it! Also, was the driver brainwashed somehow into driving this train over a death trap of a bridge. I know the real one is still standing to this day and is an engineering masterpiece. Who would knowingly drive a train over an unsafe bridge????

[DrMarcusKane]

@Nigel16032009 I think the driver might have been a part of the military who boarded the train when it was being sealed up with the shutters and welders and maybe he had been ordered just to drive the train to the quarantine camp in Poland.I've been over the real bridge, which is actually the Garabit viaduct in France, years ago when I was Inter Railing there - I did spot the mistakes with the track though, among many errors this movie has, but it's great to watch anyway!!

[Taff11171]

LOL! Why do most of think the old lady scene at 1.52 is quite funny. Looks like shes trying to push one out...

[seediermedia2]

As a young kid, I was terrified by:

.....the ugliness of: 1:39

.....the horror of: 1:49

.....and I just thought: 1:52 was quite funny.

Still a great film. Thanks for posting.

[mounir00015]

it's a great movie

[hughie522]

"Nobody wants to waste their time watching has-beens and never-will-bes crying and overacting. They want to see hot, model train plummeting action!"

[codeinestation]

The way all those poor bastards die... it's like they were asking for it!

[baneskrbic]

Man,that spooky music still kinda scares me...

[uckadalma]

@baneskrbic ........Incredable ! It still creaps me now like 30 years ago !

An unforgettable cult movie !!

[Nigo82]

Nigo82

A great movie indeed!! Teriffic suspense!! and an excellent disaster sequence at the end. Deffinately could have done without that shot at 01:52.

The bits of this sequence that I always remembere are at: 01:07, 01:21, 01:27 and from 01:34 to 01:51. Always remeber that shot when the two side of the compartment come together at 01:49.

[OldMovieDude]

I liked this crash in '76. Surprising how fake it looks now. Even the Swarm did this better.

[ManenQ]

when you see clips in the movie from the bridge, it always freaking me out

[brushstrokesrock]

Why? What's so freaky about a bridge? :-D

[heene]

The film is on More 4 now. but it's lunchtime & the last time it was on they heavily edited this scene. Sensible for the time of day I suppose, but it spoils the film & they shouldn't show it at this time of day for that reason.

[ScreamingScallop]

Insanely cheesy. The way the sequence is edited, it looks like (1) upwards of ten or eleven cars are involved in the collapse--how long IS this train?--and (2) the passengers inside remain calmly seated, reading their papers as the cars plummet to the ground. (And then there's Bloody Face Senior. Yeeeesh.)

Only the gorgeous Jerry Goldsmith score makes this thing tolerable for me...well, that and my love of bad movies. (Although the Jean-Claude Van Damme rip-off "Derailed" is even worse.)

[BVictor21]

That's because the scene was cut that way. It's really not a mistake though. There was one engine, 2 baggage cars, 3 passenger carriages and the diner car.

Remember this was 1976.

[BVictor21]

1 engine,

1 bagage car (2nd one is added after the train is sealed)

3 passenger coaches

1 dining car

3 or 4 more passenger coaches after the dining car.

When the train first leaves the station, there is 1 passenger coach and 1 baggage care after the dining car.

[Bellwestern80]

I saw this movie on TCM. I thought it was really intense during the shooting scene. A really good movie for someone who wants thrills. (Check out that screaming old bag at 1:51, kind of funny/insane looking!)

[tojour]

I have been looking for this film for a while!!! Where can I find it. Thank you for sharing it.

Tojour SD/Mex

[gpwerner]

The best part of the movie. They could cut out all the crappy subplots with Martin Sheen, Ava Gardner, their dog, Lionel Stander and the post-hippie folk singers sleeping around and have made a very suspenseful actioner...barely an hour long. lol

And when this was shot in 1976, the disaster movie had already become cliche with Irwin Allen's big-bucks films already down the pipe. A lot of this was just piling onto the genre.

[markymint]

freaks me out every time

[Perranporth]

I haven't seen this since I was a child. Great action scenes for a youngster. But doesn't it also contain every single cliche in the book?

[openmind1969]

Probably, but then again when this was shot, they weren't cliches yet.

[LAboy456]

A great movie... I saw it first when it was shown on TV in Portugal, in the late 90's (it repeated two more times, the last one being in 2002/2003, I guess)... ;)