THE CASSANDRA CROSSING (EL PUENTE DE CASANDRA - 1976)
(EN CASTELLANO DEBAJO) For those of you who think that the present pandemic of COVID-19 was generated in a secret lab in Wuhan, where an experiment went awry and an elaborated cover up has been set up since then, this is the kind of movie you will enjoy. It was a thriller turned in 1976 with an all-star cast, that included some famous Hollywood names with Richard Harris and Sophia Loren at the top billing. Though it looked like an American or Hollywood blockbuster, in fact it was a European movie produced by Carlo Ponti, Sophia Loren´s husband. Some people in the web have qualified it as a “disaster movie”, but I’m against this definition because usually “disaster movies” (like, for instance, “The Poseidon adventure”, 1972, “Earthquake”, 1974, “The Towering Inferno”, 1974) introduced some characters whose lives were turned upside down due to a natural disaster. With hindsight, one would think that Hitchcock’s masterpiece, “The Birds” (1963), set the pattern for “disaster mo...