At noon on October 25th, the Transcontinental Express left Geneva Station with almost one thousand people aboard. Their destination: Basel, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. No one arrived.
A man infected with a US-made biological weapon escapes onto a train bound for Sweden – a train occupied by a famous neurologist, his author ex-wife, a Holocaust survivor, the wife of a German arms dealer, the young heroin trafficker with whom she’s having an affair, and the undercover Interpol agent pursuing him. But with the US government desperate to stop the spread of the virus as well as cover up its own scandal, the lives of everyone on board the train may need to be sacrificed.
From director George P. Cosmatos (Tombstone) and legendary producers Carlo Ponti (Doctor Zhivago) and Lord Lew Grade (The Eagle Has Landed) comes an all-star disaster movie featuring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen, Lee Strasberg, OJ Simpson, and Ava Gardner, a thrilling score by Oscar-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith, and breathtaking images of the European vistas by cinematographer Ennio Guarnieri.
1500 copies only.
Special Features & Technical Specs:
1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
NEW The Entertainer: The films of George P. Cosmatos - video essay by film historian and author Jeremy Smith
NEW Infectious Narratives - interview with University of Hull doctoral researcher and host of Pandemic Pages podcast Lucyl Harrison on pandemics in cinema
Theatrical Trailers
Archival behind-the-scenes featurette
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
Optional English HOH Subtitles