As we all know there are only seven basic plots so every now and again you need to merge a couple to come up with something new. Alas, it's not as easy as blending two colours to make a third. In this case they took a look at Panic In The Streets in which a hood, infected with plague is loose on the streets of New Orleans and doctor Richard Widmark has to track him down and/or contain the disease and avoid widespread panic and fused it with one of those people in danger in a confined space entries a la The Towering Inferno and what they came up with was a hood infected with plague attempting to escape via a crowded train - okay, a snake on a train if you must. Actually it's not that bad, very watchable and any movie that features not one, not two, but THREE gorgeous gals, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren and Alida Valli, albeit all homing in on their sell-by date, can't be all bad.
Review of The Cassandra Crossing
