Runaway Train is a 1985 film which tells the story of two escaped convicts and a female train worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. It stars Jon Voight as Oscar "Manny" Manheim, Eric Roberts as Buck, John P. Ryan as Associate Warden Ranken and Rebecca De Mornay as Sara.
The movie was written by Edward Bunker, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Djordje Milicevic, Hideo Oguni and Paul Zindel. It was dire...
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Runaway Train is a 1985 film which tells the story of two escaped convicts and a female train worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. It stars Jon Voight as Oscar "Manny" Manheim, Eric Roberts as Buck, John P. Ryan as Associate Warden Ranken and Rebecca De Mornay as Sara.
The movie was written by Edward Bunker, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Djordje Milicevic, Hideo Oguni and Paul Zindel. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
The film simultaneously follows the escape of two prisoners, the efforts of a train dispatching office to safely stop the out-of-control train they are on, and the hunt by their warden to recapture them.
Jon Voight plays Oscar Manheim (a.k.a. Manny), a convicted bank robber and hero to the convicts of 'Stonehaven Maximum Security Prison', Alaska, USA. Driven and highly aggressive, after two previous escape attempts the doors to Manny's cell have been welded shut for three years. As the film begins a court order...
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