Horror Express (1972) on Netflix
In 1906, Professor Sir Alexander Saxton takes frozen remains of a primitive humanoid found in a Manchurian cave aboard the Trans-Siberian Express to Europe. Mysterious deaths follow.
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Professor Sir Alexander Saxton, an anthropologist from Britain, is traveling home to Europe from Shanghai aboard the Trans-Siberian Express in 1906. His crate holds the frozen body of a primitive humanoid that he came across in a cave in Manchuria and thinks could be the missing link in human evolution. Also on the train is Doctor Wells, a colleague and friendly rival of his at the Geological Society, along with Polish Count Maryan Petrovski and Countess Irina, their spiritual adviser Father Pujardov, Inspector Mirov and a squad of soldiers. Father Pujardov tells Saxton that what lies inside the crate is evil. Saxton guards his discovery, and Wells grows suspicious, paying a porter to look inside. Mysterious deaths then begin among those aboard.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Horror Express (1972)
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- Peter Cushing arrived in Madrid to make Horror Express still grieving over his wife's recent death and told producer Bernard Gordon he could not do the film; Christopher Lee talked to his old friend about their earlier work together and Cushing changed his mind and stayed on.
- Producer Bernard Gordon said the train carriage mock-up was built for Pancho Villa (1972), not the rumored Doctor Zhivago, and served as the interior of every car in Horror Express; with no stage space left, each car's scenes were shot consecutively before the set was modified for the next.
- Horror Express gave American musician John Cacavas his first film score; he had met Telly Savalas in London in the early 1970s, and the friendship led Savalas to help him move into film and television scoring, including Savalas's series Kojak.
- Like other Spanish and Italian films of the period, Horror Express was shot mostly without sound, with voices and effects dubbed in later; Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas all provided their own voices for the English version.
