Am I the only person who has purchased "The Silver Collection" version of "The Cassandra Crossing" released by Carlton? It states the train is going from Stockholm to Geneva! Good grief! Have they watched the film? And to add to this, if you follow the web link you end up at www.itv.com and no mention of Carlton! Even Carlton Visual seems to have disappeared!
shareI dunno if you know this but ITV used to be made up of many different companies like Anglean,LWT,Granada,Thames, Carlton etc. Anyway i think 2 of these companies became the most succesful and eventually bought out the others. I think Carlton was the only truely independant one left recently until it went bust. Thats what we dont have Carlton Cinema on cable anymore. and why the webpage will go straight to itv.com
Doyle:Come on in darling the doors open
Bodie:Anything you say sweetheart:)
The other goof as well as the Carlton one is that the picture on the DVD cover(UK version) seems to be of an American type diesel loco as opposed to the Swiss electric class Re4/4 used in the movie, which as I learned from the movie, can run without overhead power lines. And the driver must have had some route knowledge for the detour to Nuremburg . . .
But this movie is still way better than some recent similar action flicks like UNDER SIEGE 2 and EXECUTIVE DECISION - and of course, the awful Van Damme semi-remake of this called DERAILED with the toy trains!
SIGNATURE DELETED BY ADMINISTRATOR DUE TO MISUSE, HEE HEE!
And the driver must have had some route knowledge for the detour to Nuremburg . . .
It's clearly shown, that the signalmen change the rails and the direction of the train.
"And the driver must have had some route knowledge for the detour to Nuremburg . . .
It's clearly shown, that the signalmen change the rails and the direction of the train. "
No, n-forbeswarren is quite right: this is one of very many holes that show the truly Emmental nature of this film: a driver who doesn't "sign" every route the train is going to cover (that is, have intimate knowledge of all its characteristics) could not drive it - this applies basically on every railway in the world. Unless of course the Swiss driver had a local conductor to guide him... and said conductor would of course by definition also then be condemned to death in this movie!
In any event, for many reasons a Swiss locomotive could not travel to Poland (European international trains until very recently almost always changed locomotives at the border): apart from the above issue of route knowledge, issues of electricity supply voltage, signalling types and differing safety procedures make it impossible - until very, very recently.
Anyway, if you wanted to kill all the "infected" passengers to get rid of the disease, sending them over an iffy bridge is hard likely to be a sure-fire way of despatching them - even if you could be certain the bridge would collapse (e.g. if it had been sabotaged to that end):
1. Even if a train plummets 100m off a bridge into a gorge, it's exceptionally unlikely that everybody would be killed: some probably would be, but railway carriages are 30-40 tonnes of steel and extremely strong structurally, which is why rail crashes are far more "survivable" than accidents in road or air transport.
2. Even if they were all killed, surely there'd be infected and decaying corpses floating down the river which we are told forms the border with Poland - not a terribly effective way of containing an epidemic which we are told the authorities still believe to be virulent, one might think?
And I'm managing not to mention the old Hollywood-based standby of uncoupling two parts of the train and this miraculously not applying the brakes, and of course the climax involving the least convincing model railway "effects" since the opening of Hitchcock's (otherwise excellent) "The Lady Vanishes"...!
All good fun!
Carlton didn't go bust. It merged with Granada and became ITV plc; hence the web page link.
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