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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Cassandra Crossing, it turns a possible contagion into coolly procedural, escalating suspense, following experts racing to understand a threat contained behind institutional walls.
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Why this pick
Its tense disaster-thriller machinery, corporate-military evasions, and mounting sense that officials are concealing a catastrophic risk closely fit Cassandra Crossing’s paranoid urgency.
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Why this pick
A large ensemble trapped aboard a threatened ocean liner gives it the same old-school all-star disaster tension, with authority figures forced into fraught decisions under a ticking clock.
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Why this pick
This British thriller shares the grim 1970s atmosphere, institutional unease, and steadily widening dread of a disaster that powerful people struggle to control.
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Why this pick
Another expansive 1970s disaster thriller, it combines a prestigious international cast, confined travel setting, suspicious authorities, and ominous inevitability.
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01 / THE STORY
When the existence of a strain of plague (disease) (vaguely identified as pneumonic plague) is revealed at the US mission at the International Health Organization, three terrorists seek to blow up the US mission. Two of them are shot, one mortally, by security personnel but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalised and quarantined and identified as Sweden. Dr. Elena Stradner (Ingrid Thulin) and US Colonel Stephen Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) (Military Intelligence assigned to the IHO) argue over the nature of the strain, which Stradner suspects is a biological weapon but which Colonel Mackenzie claims was in the process of being destroyed.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain
Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain
Col. Stephen Mackenzie
Dr. Elena Stradner
Major Stark
Haley
Nicole Dressler
Robby Navarro
