10 Dumbest Decisions In Disaster Movies

5. The Cassandra Crossing (1976) - Not Stopping The Train

In order to contain a deadly virus, extreme and freedom-restricting measures sometimes have to be taken including, in this instance, imprisoning passengers onboard an intercontinental train so that the contagion cannot spread.

However, the U.S. military is also keen to contain the idea that the virus ever existed, since the government created it. A host of soldiers therefore board the train at Nuremberg to escort it into Poland across a rusting, dilapidated bridge - the Cassandra Crossing - exposing themselves to danger as well.

Even though brilliant neurosurgeon, Jonathan Chamberlain (Richard Harris) discovers that the pure oxygen that the army pumped into the train in Nuremberg is actually killing the virus, the army officials still refuse to stop the train as it trundles along towards the unstable bridge.

Although this leads to an entertainingly desperate climactic gunfight onboard the train, the army officials are sent to their doom as well, begging the question of why they even boarded the train in the first place.