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Released
1979 · FILM

Disaster on the Coastliner

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Runtime
89 min
ActionThrillerTV Movie

Synopsis

A vengeful engineer, driven to madness by the deaths of his wife and daughter, deliberately sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man William Shatner risks his life to prevent the disaster.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert FlorioShot by Fred J KoenekampScored by Gerald Fried

Also known as

  • Die Weiche steht auf Todde
  • La muerte viene al encuentroes

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