Runaway Train (1985)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Andrei Konchalovsky

Writers:

Djordje Milicevic (screenplay) &
Paul Zindel (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

17 January 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Once it starts, nothing can stop it!

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Train | Prisoner | Escape | Heart Attack

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Jon Voight	...	Manny
Eric Roberts	...	Buck
Rebecca De Mornay	...	Sara
Kyle T. Heffner	...	Frank Barstow
John P. Ryan	...	Ranken
T.K. Carter	...	Dave Prince
Kenneth McMillan	...	Eddie MacDonald
Stacey Pickren	...	Ruby
Walter Wyatt	...	Conlan
Edward Bunker	...	Jonah
Reid Cruickshanks	...	Al Turner (as Reid Cruikshanks)
Dan Wray	...	Fat Con
Michael Lee Gogin	...	Short Con
John Bloom	...	Tall Con
Hank Worden	...	Old Con (as Norton E. 'Hank' Warden)

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

USA | Israel

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Rankcolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Canada:18A (Ontario) | Iceland:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-18 | Norway:16 (cut) | Norway:18 | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Montana, USA

Company:

Golan-Globus Productions

Trivia:

Cannon's U.S. trailer used Henry Mancini's score from Lifeforce (1985), an earlier big budget Cannon production which they released six months earlier.

Goofs:

Continuity: The close-up shots of Manny's grip on the coupling show him holding on by just his finger tips, but in the longer shots the positioning of the fingers is different and you see that his whole hand is on top of the coupling.

Quotes:

[Ranken and his team are about to pursue Manny]
Ranken: God, don't kill him. Let me do it.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Con Express (2002) (V)

Soundtrack:

'Gloria' in D Major by Vivaldi

One of my alltime favourites.

This movie is just brilliant. The Oscar Mannheimer character has to be one of the hardest moviecharacters of alltime. I love the way Voight turns mental on numerous occasions, he's doing one hell of a job. Arguably his best ever role. Eric Roberts is almost as brilliant in portraying Buck. I find myself laughing at so many times during the course of this movie. It's not only funny though, it's also a movie of high suspense and some action. 10 out of 10. I say YEAH!