The Cassandra Crossing Train Crash and Ending

[brentv64]

The engine is still under theleg of the bridge not in the water at 2:25

[TheWeepingCorpse]

When I watched this on UK TV a few years back they had superimposed blood splats on the screen as the people died, they are not present in this clip!!!

[DrMarcusKane]

1.36 LMFAO the bloke getting impaled by the bridge beam! Ace model train crash!!

[mrspivvy]

I liked the part when the train crashed

[anivillechris]

I read a wiki, I know what happens. Sucks

[anivillechris]

k so, a guy lets everyone die so the last like 5 coaches can live?

i have not seen he movie, someone plz explain what happens here, ya old bridge, all gonna fall, why he let only half of train survive?

[shortround551]

@anivillechris ill tell you later

[JBofBrisbane]

Forgot the continuous automatic train brakes - someone had to wind a handbrake on, for crying out loud!

[Purplecatsoup30]

hahaha there were survivors you stupid american douche too bad for you!

[kmothersil]

Moral of this story is don't operate trains on poorly maintained bridges. What happened between 1:23-2:35 will be the result.

[hefley4]

Wow. Allowing for multiple shots of the same coaches leaving the bridge deck and then crashing into the girders below, I counted at least nine (9) full size coaches go over the edge and crash. There were at least three more that braked to safety and did not crash -- that's 12 coaches minimum. a single little wimpy diesel as the one portrayed could never pull that many cars at passenger train speeds, in mountains no less. And... It must have cause model-train builder Marklin a fortune!!

[moonspots01]

What crap. I can't believe I liked this.

Of course I was 13 at the time.

[atyxyt]

whoa

[music4ismylife8]

Ouch

[MsKeith1969]

i wish i was sophia loren's character in the movie!

[ualien42]

can someone please explain to me why the train had infected people on it, cause I only clicked this so I could see the train crash

[Verbeke7]

@ualien42

Terrorists sneaked some sort of stolen bio-weapon onboard, and the U.S. government let the train crash purposely to hide the evidence.

[MooMooCowc4]

how come it was traviling tawords the bridge anyways?

[Nessiechan]

Is it bad I laughed the entire time? xD

[ualien42]

@Nessiechan nope, cause I laughed too

[Snipercakeman]

Seeing the old lady scream and die at 1:52 was quite horrific for me 0.o

But still, it all happens.

[DC322]

@MrMariofan7 Bridge wasn't maintained.

[billjoe39]

The crash sequence made this the most shocking disaster movie of the seventies - appropriately R rated. The Italians pulled no punches with their endings.

[Silvershadow196]

Gosh, that ending-scene made my hair stand as I saw the film for the first time and still does!

How gruesome!!!

I even would not cross that bridge by foot!

[superrezekiel]

1:28

[mikesway23]

after watching this film when I was a kid, I always went to the back every time I travelled on a train lol

[CFodderESG]

Remember catching bits of this film on TV once. Got me interested, I must say. Pity about the Garabit Viaduct, though!

[coyoteatquiznos]

@MrMariofan7 The railroad branch the train was travelling on was out of use. Earlier in the film there was a debate between the officials over whether the bridge was safe to cross for a train.

[vtorrieri]

stupid film

[DisasterFlicks]

@vtorrieri stupid comment :)

[mistresspat7]

Ah Richard Harris and Sophia Loren together in a movie, he really knew how to get the ladies RIP Richard Harris.

[Aquarius199]

1:53 LOL at the screaming old lady!

[UFOSPACE1999]

wow..this is truly a suck ass flic...bad visuals..lt truly looked like a toy train on a toy bridge....bad shit...way to go Jerry accepting another bad ass flic....

[Shinkansen1966]

I want Cassandra Crossing II - so we can do the follow up story on the survivors. 

[nladisha]

those are some ugly actors!!!

[motorniczy1989]

znam ten film, w TV Poland bardzo rzadko go widzę..

greeting from POLAND

[SloterMFmeyer]

I used to have a train like that!

[Jerraph]

I got this on DVD the other day, and watched it yesterday. I remembered it from my childhood. Great film!

For some reason, I seemed to remember the bit where they seal the train as being the ending of the film, which of course it isn't.

The train crash bit is pretty gruesome to watch even today.

[zaniac100]

Wow it is like 12 carriages go over - there must have been a huge death toll.

Excellent model.

[OsamaBinfatman]

this was one of my favorite O.J. movies

[KlunkerRider]

Sorry, but one of the worst cheesemaster grade Z movies ever made, would relish seeing what MST3K could have done to this one...nice models though ;)

[AM429]

why didn't they steal the white suits of the guys they killed and gain access to the front that way?

[yogafan6500]

Great thriller from the 1970's Both Richard Harris and Sophia Loren are great in The Cassandra Crossing a suspense actioner directed by the late George P. Cosmatos who later directed Rambo: First Blood PT.2 & Tombstone. I wish there ought to be a remake of that classic. Imagine Brendan Fraser & Kate Beckinsale in that movie it'll be so cool.

[Rollman1]

@yogafan6500 Good idea. I like this movie

This time theres got to be more then one black man besides OJ

[Silvershadow196]

That bridge is so spooky.

I saw that film maybe five times and still get my hair standing at the end scene!

[AlexMuzika]

Yes, i very like this great film too!!!!!

[darkyoda]

There's actually a blooper in this movie here. When the train was transfered to a diesel locomotive in the early part of the movie, take note. They never uncoupled the electric locomotive. The diesel was just "tacked" onto the end of it. However in the accident, there's no electric engine.

[natman77]

Dont remember it being that bad.

[ocamico]

It would be a hell of a lot bigger splash than that

[LDG10k]

The real moral of this story is, is that first class passengers are upper-class filth who must be destroyed at any cost! It's the class war gone mad.

[GodsStyleGirl]

What are a few compared to the many. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. For the greater good. Might makes right. Voluntary compulsion is necessary. Terrorism is justified.

Or so we are told.

[Trainbrain1949]

Weak bridge and plot!

[templedread]

The Bridge is Gustav Eifel's style...

[BVictor21]

Well, Eifel did design it.

Garabit Viaduct.

[templedread]

Thank you for your response. I only said that was Eifel's style because I was not quite shure if the bridge was real... Here in Porto we have a similar bridge design by Eifel: Ponte D. Maria.

[switchstand]

Looks like a model train

[templedread]

It surelly is...

[ACLTony]

@switchstand - it was a scale model train, bridge, and scenery.

[VideoEnthusiast1]

The train falling off the bridge was really cool.

[BirdieDoDoProduction]

Why on Earth would the Americans arrange to send a train load of plague carriers into Poland and the Eastern block? I would figure the last thing they would want is for a potential enemy to get their hands on a disease like that.

And of coarse, why would any country allow such a potential threat into their borders?

[leavenworthkd]

My question is, where the people in the front infected? and the ones in the back healthy o.o?

[DisasterFlicks]

No. By the time the train reached the bridge almost all of the passengers were cured by the pure oxygen that was generated throughout the train. They just split the train into two pieces because half a train would have a better chance of making it across because the weight would be much lighter.

[leavenworthkd]

Okay, but could they stop the train before they got on the bridge?

[Watcher3223]

Probably not.

A fully loaded locomotive requires a few miles before the cars can come to a complete stop.

Of course, there must also be reason why they couldn't stop well before they would get to the bridge.

That's a good reason why we'd have to see the whole movie to see exactly why.

[BVictor21]

Only a few people know of the deteriorated state of the bridge.

[DisasterFlicks]

No because armed guards that were put aboard were preventing them from stopping the train.

[kabukikitsune]

@DisasterFlicks Reason they split the train in half was because they knew (the old guy who blew up the diner car at least) that the whole train would NEVER make it over. However the only place they could uncouple was at the diner car. Ironic it may be, but by pulling that cut off he should have caused the WHOLE train to go into emergency brake and stop well before the bridge.

[ScottCrick27]

This movie game me nightmares as a kid. The creepy music, the light that goes out on the train board, the Nazi death camp angle. Funny that I still find it creepy 30-some years later.

[Watcher3223]

Well, well. I guess International Rescue missed that emergency call!

[DC322]

Well, the Tracys are too busy fighting the fires of the whole entire city.

[Watcher3223]

And avoiding people trying to take pictures of their equipment and vehicles.

[tuttt99]

Thunderbirds are G-

nevermind!

[ScreamingScallop]

Beautiful Jerry Goldsmith score, at least. The crash scene is ruined by lack of continuity and Tonka toy-train effects.

[Watcher3223]

Pyrotechnics courtesy of Black Cat Firecrackers and Marathon gasolines.

[seanomiochain]

1.53 to 1.55 is a bit creepy.....

[IAmAVeryFatMan]

i'd imagine that this would be a begining to a Final Destination movie. *shiver* those movies creep me out!

[DC322]

Sucks for them in the front half of the train. lol.

[DisasterFlicks]

Yaeh, and the survivors don't seem to care that 500 people were just killed. They're just happy they're alive.