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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Casablanca Express<br />
| image = Casablanca express.jpg<br />
| caption = Italian theatrical release poster <br />
| director = [[Sergio Martino]]<br />
| producer = [[Pietro Innocenzi]]<br />[[Umberto Innocenzi]]<br />
| writer = [[Roberto Leoni]]<br />[[Ernesto Gastaldi]]<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[Jason Connery]]<br>[[Glenn Ford]]<br>[[Donald Pleasence]]<br>[[Francesco Quinn]]<br />
| music = [[Luigi Ceccarelli]]<br />
| cinematography =<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = December 22, 1989<br />
| runtime = 84 minutes<br />
| country = [[Italy]]<br />
| language = [[English language|English]]<br />
| budget =<br />
}}<br />
'''''Casablanca Express''''' is a 1989 [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[action film|action]] [[war film]] starring [[Jason Connery]] and [[Francisco Quinn]] that was filmed in Morocco. It was produced by [[Pietro Innocenzi]] and [[Umberto Innocenzi]] and directed by [[Sergio Martino]]. The film was later featured in an episode of ''[[Cinema Insomnia]]''.<ref name="CinemaInsomnia.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.cinemainsomnia.com/show.php |title=Cinema Insomnia, with your Horror Host, Mister Lobo! - SHOW INFORMATION |accessdate=20 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328140102/http://www.cinemainsomnia.com/show.php |archivedate=28 March 2010 }}</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
In 1942 [[Winston Churchill]] arrives in [[Algiers]]. He plans to travel on to [[Casablanca]] where he will meet [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] for the [[Casablanca Conference]]. His aides and army commanders strongly advise against travelling by train, but Churchill is adamant.<br />
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Intelligence discovers that Churchill's presence is known to the Germans, and they fear a killing or [[kidnapping]] may be attempted. An especially secure carriage is attached to a train (The Casablanca Express) and a unit of American [[commando]] troops assigned to travel with him. Three intelligence agents, Alan Cooper, Captain Franchetti and Lt. Lorna Fisher are assigned as bodyguards, but Cooper is held back after he chases and kills a French [[double agent]].<br />
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The train proceeds on its way, but a German agent, Otto von Tiblis, is amongst the passengers in disguise. He is detected by Franchetti and a fight on the coach roof ensues. Now revealed, von Tiblis opens fire on the passengers and takes over the engine at gunpoint. The train comes to a halt, and a unit of [[Fallschirmjäger (World War II)|German paratroopers]], awaiting this moment, attack the train. They kill nearly all the American soldiers and wound and kill many passengers.<br />
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Back in Algiers, Allied intelligence learn of the attempted kidnap and Cooper volunteers for a dangerous mission. He travels alone by [[camel]] and sneaks up on the train. The coaches have all been wired with explosives in case of attack, but he gets a badly wounded Franchetti to crawl under the coaches and cut the wires connecting the explosives and the [[detonator]]. Cooper, Fisher and Franchetti open fire on the Germans; Fisher is able to send an emergency radio signal to Algiers, at which point a trainload of heavily armed [[United States Marine Corps|US Marines]] leaves to intercept the Express.<br />
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All the Germans have been killed, but von Tiblis manages to get the train going. He soon comes face to face with the Marines, who shoot up the train and kill him.<br />
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Franchetti dies, but Cooper and Fisher, badly wounded, return to Algiers. They learn that the 'Churchill' they battled to protect was actually a decoy, and the real Churchill has travelled to Casablanca by plane.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Jason Connery]] as Alan Cooper<br />
* [[Francesco Quinn]] as Captain Franchetti<br />
* [[Jinny Steffan]] as Lieutenant Lorna Fisher<br />
* [[Manfred Lehmann]] as Otto Von Tiblis<br />
* [[Jean Sorel]] as Major Valmore<br />
* [[Donald Pleasence]] as Colonel Bats<br />
* [[Glenn Ford]] as Maj. Gen. Williams<br />
* [[Luisa Maneri]] as Nanny<br />
* [[Horst Schön]] as Priest (as Horst Schon)<br />
* [[David Brandon (actor)|David Brandon]] as Jason Lloyd<br />
* John Evans as [[Winston Churchill]]<br />
* [[Marina Viro]] as Olga<br />
* [[Giulia Urso]] as Liz<br />
* [[Giovanni Tamberi]] as Julian<br />
* [[Augusto Poderosi]] as Barry<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (film)|The Eagle Has Landed]]'', a British film featuring a similar fictitious German attempt to kidnap Churchill.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|id=0094843|title=Casablanca Express}}<br />
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{{Sergio Martino}}<br />
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[[Category:1989 films]]<br />
[[Category:1980s English-language films]]<br />
[[Category:English-language Italian films]]<br />
[[Category:Italian World War II films]]<br />
[[Category:Macaroni Combat films]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Algeria]]<br />
[[Category:North African campaign films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Sergio Martino]]<br />
[[Category:Rail transport films]]<br />
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill]]<br />
[[Category:1980s Italian films]]</div>Bot