The convicts finally realize something is wrong. The collision badly damages the cab of the lead locomotive and jams the front door of the second engine, an old inoperable EMD F-unit, or "A-liner". ![]() Unfortunately, the runaway smashes the caboose of another train pulling onto a siding. ![]() Barstow allows the train to reach onto the mainline, whilst trying to keep the tracks farther down the line clear. As the unmanned train accelerates, dispatchers Dave Prince and Frank Barstow are alerted to the situation. He manages to apply the brakes, but the locomotives overpower them resulting in the brake shoes burning off. The elderly railroad engineer, Al, has a fatal heart attack after starting the train and falls off the lead locomotive. After stealing some railroad clothing, they hop on board a train, consisting only of four locomotives. After escaping from the prison via a sewer tunnel that opens out above a freezing river, and an arduous cross-country hike, the two arrive at a switchyard. Manny recruits young prisoner Buck McGeehy to help in the complicated plan. Planning a third break out, Manny is forced to advance his plan to mid-winter after he is stabbed. A court order compels sadistic Associate Warden Ranken to release him from solitary. After two previous escape attempts, Manny is put in solitary confinement for three years. Oscar "Manny" Manheim (Voight) is a ruthless bank robber and hero to the convicts of Alaska's Stonehaven Maximum Security Prison. Kurosawa intended the original screenplay to be his first color film following Red Beard, but difficulties with the American financial backers led to its being shelved. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Voight and Roberts were both nominated for Academy Awards for their respective roles. ![]() The story concerns two escaped convicts and a female assistant locomotive driver who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. The film was also the feature debut of both Danny Trejo and Tommy "Tiny" Lister, who both proceeded to successful careers as "tough guy" character actors. The screenplay by Djordje Milicevic, Paul Zindel and Edward Bunker was based on an original 1960s screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, with uncredited contributions by frequent Kurosawa collaborators Hideo Oguni and Ryūzō Kikushima. Runaway Train is a 1985 American action thriller film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay and John P.
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