Runaway Train (film)

Runaway Train is a 1985 American survivalthriller film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay and John P. Ryan. The screenplay by Djordje Milicevic, Paul Zindel and Edward Bunker was based on an original screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, with uncredited contributions by frequent Kurosawa collaborators Hideo Oguni and Ryuzo Kikushima. The film was also the feature debuts of Danny Trejo and Tommy Tiny Lister, who both proceeded to successful careers as tough guy character actors.

The story follows the escape of two men from an Alaska prison, the efforts of a railroad dispatch office to safely stop the outofcontrol train they are on, and the hunt by their warden to recapture them. Oscar Manny Manheim is a ruthless bank robber and hero to the convicts of Stonehaven Maximum Security Prison. After two previous escape attempts the doors to Mannys cell have been welded shut for three years. A court order compels Mannys nemesis, the vindictive and sadistic Associate Warden Ranken, to release him back into the general prison population. Manny intends to break out a third time with his older brother Jonah Manheim, but is forced to set his escape plan into action in the middle of winter. Ranken employs a serial killer to give Manny the incentive, by stabbing him grievously through his left hand. Jonah fatally stabs the serial killer to death in retaliation, and in turn is severely beaten by the prison guard, leaving him in a highsecurity hospital wing.Manny has to leave his brother behind as a result. He recruits Buck McGeehy, another convict convicted of statutory rape, due to his position in the prisons laundry room to smuggle him out in a trolley. Buck decides to join Manny in the escape, the latter not caring for company. After a freezing crosscountry hike involving a 300ft drop into a river and subsequent swim the two hop on board a train consisting of four locomotives at a remote Alaskan rail yard. ........

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