by Phillip Erlewine
synopsis
Lee Marvin plays a CIA agent who lures a Soviet biological warfare expert aboard a European train in the hopes of murdering the expert, thus eliminating a world threat. Things go awry when the train is caught in an avalanche.
characteristics
- Assassination Plots
- Intrigue
- On-the-run
- Train [locomotive]
- Espionage
- Defector
- Avalanche
- Biological-warfare
- Defection
