Runaway Train (film)
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| Directed by | Andrei Konchalovsky |
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Menahem Golan Yoram Globus |
| Screenplay by | Djordje Milicevic Paul Zindel Edward Bunker |
| Story by | Akira Kurosawa |
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| Music by | Trevor Jones |
| Cinematography | Alan Hume |
| Edited by | Henry Richardson |
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Northbrook Films
Golan-Globus Productions |
| Distributed by | The Cannon Group, Inc. |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $7.7 million (US) |
Runaway Train is a 1985 American thriller drama 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 concerns two escaped convicts and a female railroad worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. Voight and Roberts were both nominated for Academy Awards for their respective roles.
The story follows the escape of two men from an Alaska prison, the efforts of a railroad dispatch office to safely stop the out-of-control 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 Manny's cell were welded shut for three years. A court order compels Manny's 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, but he is forced to set his escape plan into action in the middle of winter after Ranken employs a serial killer to stab him. Jonah stabs his attacker to death in retaliation and in turn is severely beaten by a prison guard, leaving him in a high-security hospital wing.
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