Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 2 wins & 8 nominations total
- Al Turner
- (as Reid Cruikshanks)
- Old Con
- (as Norton E. 'Hank' Warden)
Storyline
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- TriviaDanny Trejo was visiting a friend who was working as a production assistant on the set when he was offered a job as an extra. Edward Bunker recognized Trejo because they served time in San Quentin State Prison together. Bunker helped Trejo get hired as Eric Roberts' boxing coach. Director Andrey Konchalovskiy was so impressed with Trejo that he gave him a small role. Trejo later stated that he was staggered to find out that the coaching job earned him $320 per day, which was more than he had ever gotten from a robbery.
- GoofsDuring the rail yard shots it is clearly visible that the last two locomotives (EMD GP7s) have Blomberg B type trucks. Later in the movie the trucks of the two locomotives change to AAR type B, which reveals that the locomotives are different. Yard shots were made at the BA&P Railway yard in Anaconda, Montana using local locomotives, which had Blomberg B trucks. Later filming was done on the Alaska Railroad, whose GP7s had AAR type B trucks. Furthermore, as the train starts accelerating in the yard, a close up of an AAR type B truck is shown, which reveals that the shot was made later in Alaska and not in Montana as the other yard shots.
- Quotes
Manny: [after listening to Buck's dream] That's bullshit. You're not gonna do nothin' like that. I'll tell you what you gonna do. You gonna get a job. That's what you gonna do. You're gonna get a little job. Some job a convict can get, like scraping off trays in a cafeteria. Or cleaning out toilets. And you're gonna hold onto that job like gold. Because it is gold. Let me tell you, Jack, that is gold. You listenin' to me? And when that man walks in at the end of the day. And he comes to see how you done, you ain't gonna look in his eyes. You gonna look at the floor. Because you don't want to see that fear in his eyes when you jump up & grab his face, and slam him to the floor, and make him scream & cry for his life. So you look right at the floor, Jack. Pay attention to what I'm sayin', motherfucker! And then he's gonna look around the room - see how you done. And he's gonna say "Oh, you missed a little spot over there. Jeez, you didn't get this one here. What about this little bitty spot?" And you're gonna suck all that pain inside you, and you're gonna clean that spot. And you're gonna clean that spot. Until you get that shiny clean. And on Friday, you pick up your paycheck. And if you could do that, if you could do that, you could be president of Chase Manhattan... corporations! If you could do that.
Buck: Not me, man! I wouldn't do that kind of shit. I'd rather be in fuckin' jail.
Manny: More's the pity, youngster. More's the pity.
Buck: Could you do that kind of shit?
Manny: I wish I could.
- Crazy credits"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity." "But I know none, and therefore am no beast." Richard III - William Shakespeare
- Alternate versionsThe DVD mysteriously edits out the shot of the first helicopter policeman being run over by the wheels of the train. You see him crash into the train windshield and see him fall off, but then you see just a plain shot of the wheels. In all other versions of the film on video and laserdisc have a shot of this man's face coming right at the camera as his body is run over by the wheels of the train. Even the US TV version has a brief shot of this. This shot is present in the UK Arrow Films DVD release.
- ConnectionsEdited into Con Express (2002)
- SoundtracksGloria in D Major
by Antonio Vivaldi (as Vivaldi)
Performed by The USSR Academic Russian Chorus and the Moscow Conservatoire Students Orchestra
Roberts is a younger convict who idolizes Manny and helps him escape from the Alaskan prison where they both reside. they end up on a train barrelling down the tracks at 90mph with no conductor and no way to stop it. The film is based on a screenplay by the legendary Akira Kurasawa.
Great action scenes. Muscular film-making. It just seems they don't make films like this anymore. Films that aren't trying to pander to a certain demographic. This is lean, mean action all the way.
And that "little biddy spot" monologue Voight has halfway through the film is really breathtaking. He should have won an Oscar for that alone.
- tbyrne4
- Dec 13, 2007
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Express in die Hölle
- Filming locations
- Anaconda, Montana, USA(Railroad Yard)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,683,620
- Gross worldwide
- $7,683,620
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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