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Release Date: 1981 Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Tom Atkins, Isaac Hayes, Frank Doubleday, Joe Unger, Adrienne Barbeau, Season Hubley Categories: Movies, Escape Film, Thriller, Action/Adventure, Doomsday Film, Crime, Western, Science Fiction, Action, Indie, Dystopia Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film directed and scored by John Carpenter. He co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Castle. The film is set in the near future in a crime-ridden United States that has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into a maximum security prison. Ex-soldier Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is given 24 hours to find the President of the United States, who has been captured after the crash of Air Force One. Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s as a reaction to the Watergate scandal, but proved incapable of articulating how the film... MORE |
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- Directed by: John CarpenterWith: Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac HayesA disgraced war hero attempts an impossible mission to rescue the president who is being held hostage in America's worst prison...
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- Escape from New York (1981) - You Gonna Kill Me Now, Snake? - Hauk (Lee Van Cleef) offers Snake (Kurt Russell) another job, only to get a reply of “the name’s Plissken.”
- Escape from New York (1981) - I Heard You Were Dead - The Duke (Isaac Hayes) captures Snake (Kurt Russell) while trying to rescue the President (Donald Pleasence).
- Escape from New York (1981) - Chock Full O' Nuts - Snake (Kurt Russell) meets a girl in Chock Full O’Nuts (Season Hubley) while on his search for the President, before she falls through the floor.
- Escape from New York (1981) - Snake Meets Brain - A bitter Snake (Kurt Russell) aims a gun at an old friend Brain (Harold Dean Stanton), and demands to know where the President is.
- Escape from New York (1981) - Find the President - Hauk (Lee Van Cleef) offers Snake (Kurt Russell) a pardon for the crimes he’s been convicted of if he does one thing — find the President.










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