Disaster on the Coastliner
- IMDb link: 0079056
- IMDb rating: 5.8 (742 votes) Search
- Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
- Director: Richard C. Sarafian, Robert Milicevic
- Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle and others
- Release date: 28 Oct 1979
- Release year: 1979
- Runtime: 97 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: train, railway, train movie, runaway train, disaster film, live action, amtrak, track, computer, collision
Plot
Storyline
A vengeful employee of a computer-controlled railway arranges a head-on collision of passenger trains. Can it be stopped?
Victor Prescott, who's real name is Jim Waterman, modifies the computer controlling the railroad track (signals, switches, alarms) between San Francisco and Los Angeles in such a way that two trains are heading towards each other on the same track without anyone being able to prevent the disaster. He wants the railroad company to confess that there was criminal negligence involved in an accident some years before during which a derail caused several fatalities - including Waterman's wife and kids.
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