Avalanche Express is a product of a cold war era, lively based on Colin Forbes novel, about a defector Gen. Marenkov (Robert Shaw) who are the most powerful Soviet General on URSS until now, the CIA wants got information of Marenkov concerning the Russian project of biological devices on western Europe, thru the spies on both sides this info was leaked in KGB and the project's direction as well, the CIA's assignment is bring Marenkov safely to America, the whole operation will be in charge of CIA's veteran Wargrave (Lee Marvin) through a many trains connections since Zurich until Holland seashore, then thru US's airplane toward somewhere in America.
Sadly during the shooting Robert Shaw already ill gonna die early, putting the producers in dire straits, henceforth all Shaw scenes was shot behind using a stunt or long shots as well in order to conceal the character, aside that the screenplay is too complex, somehow puzzling too much the audience, further the massive use of miniatures on train sequence and avalanche neither whereof easily perceived by a blind eye spoils deeply the odd offering, worst during the chase there so many contrived sequences, the robust and stelar casting relief slight the mess, having Maximillian Schell, Linda Evans, Claudio Cassinelli, Horst Buchholtz and the everlasting branded German evil character Gunter Meismer gave a trueness of the cold war strain between two opposites agencies.
Actually the picture wasn't so bad as mostly of the reviewers want imply, there are enough fine pieces that hold us at chair indeed, I'd realized that has a certain grudging concerning the picture on lowest rating gave by them, the last watching on Youtube I'd found a restored print, thus the question needs an answer, who would restore something really bad anyway?
Thanks for reading
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First watch: 1984 / How many: 5 / Source: TV-DVD-Youtube / Rating: 6.5.
Sadly during the shooting Robert Shaw already ill gonna die early, putting the producers in dire straits, henceforth all Shaw scenes was shot behind using a stunt or long shots as well in order to conceal the character, aside that the screenplay is too complex, somehow puzzling too much the audience, further the massive use of miniatures on train sequence and avalanche neither whereof easily perceived by a blind eye spoils deeply the odd offering, worst during the chase there so many contrived sequences, the robust and stelar casting relief slight the mess, having Maximillian Schell, Linda Evans, Claudio Cassinelli, Horst Buchholtz and the everlasting branded German evil character Gunter Meismer gave a trueness of the cold war strain between two opposites agencies.
Actually the picture wasn't so bad as mostly of the reviewers want imply, there are enough fine pieces that hold us at chair indeed, I'd realized that has a certain grudging concerning the picture on lowest rating gave by them, the last watching on Youtube I'd found a restored print, thus the question needs an answer, who would restore something really bad anyway?
Thanks for reading
Resume:
First watch: 1984 / How many: 5 / Source: TV-DVD-Youtube / Rating: 6.5.