The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster/thriller film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg, Ava Gardner and O. J. Simpson. With the backing of European media tycoon Sir Lew Grade and Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the international all-star cast was expected to attract a widespread audience, with rights sold prior to filming, to both British and American distributors. Ponti also saw the production as a showcase for his wife, Sophia Loren. When the existence of a strain of plague is revealed at... the U.S. mission at the International Health Organization, three terrorists seek to blow up the U.S. mission. Two of them are shot, one mortally, by security personnel but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalized and quarantined and identified as Swedish. Dr. Elena Stradner and U.S.
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| Release date: | 1976 |
| Directed by: | George Pan Cosmatos |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 129 Minutes |
| Producer: | Lew Grade, Carlo Ponti |
| Editor: | Roberto Silvi, Françoise Bonnot |
| Music by: | John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography: | Ennio Guarnieri |
| Screenplay by: | George Pan Cosmatos, Robert Katz |
| Genre: | Disaster, Thriller, Adventure, Action |