Avalanche Express
- IMDb link: 0078812
- IMDb rating: 4.9 (1,982 votes)
- Genres: Action, Thriller
- Director: Monte Hellman, Maximilian Schell, Mark Robson
- Cast: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans and others
- Release date: 19 Oct 1979
- Release year: 1979
- Runtime: 88 minutes
- Country: Ireland, United States
- Keywords: russian abroad, british actor playing foreigner, cia central intelligence agency, reference to joseph stalin, train, secret agent, terrorist, biological weapon, cia agent, avalanche
Plot:
When senior Russian official Gen. Marenkov decides to defect to the West, CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to lead the team to get him out. Malenkov reveals that the Russians are trying to develop biological weapons. Wargrave decides that Malenkov should travel across Europe by train, on the "Atlantic Express", in an attempt to lure the Russians into attacking the train so that they can discover who the Russian secret agents in Europe are. During the journey they must survive a terrorist attack and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin. A tape gets decoded and Harry hands it over when he boards the jet plane with Elsa.