Runaway Train

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

• Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:106 minutes

Cast

Jon Voight : Manny
Eric Roberts : Buck
Rebecca De Mornay: Sara
Kyle T. Heffner : Frank Barstow
John P. Ryan : Ranken

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 compels Manny’s nemesis, Stonehaven’s vindictive Associate Warden Ranken (John P. Ryan), to release him back into the general prison population, at which point Manny sets his next escape plan into action. Buck (Eric Roberts) is another convict (convicted of statutory rape) who due to his position in the prison’s laundry room is recruited to smuggle Manny out in a laundry trolley. Somewhat naive and unintelligent, Buck decides to escape with Manny (who reluctantly allows Buck to join him) and after a freezing cross-country hike (involving a 300 ft drop into a river and subsequent swim) the two hop on board a consist of four locomotives at a remote Alaskan rail yard.

Just as the train is set in motion however, the elderly engineer suffers a heart attack. In attempting to stop the train and get off, the engineer does not close the throttle, instead pulling on the conductor’s emergency brake lever, before collapsing off the still-moving train. Consequently, although the brakes apply, the locomotives overpower them, and the brake shoes burn off, making it now impossible to stop the train. Neither the two convicts nor the only railway worker left on the train, a locomotive hostler named Sara (Rebecca De Mornay), are aware of their situation (the convicts due to taking refuge inside the 4th engine’s toilet compartment, Sara due to being asleep in the 2nd engine). Read more

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