Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled, Sensormatic
Editor's Note
Two convicts in an Alaskan prison escape their inhumane jailers, trek across the icy Northeast wilderness, and board a speeding freight train. Unfortunately, the train's conductor dies suddenly of a heart attack, and the convicts face certain death unless they can find some way to stop it. Based on a screenplay by none other than Akira Kurosawa. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Actor--Jon Voight.
Plot Summary
An existential action thriller about two escaped convicts -- Manny, a hardened lifer, and Buck, a petty criminal -- who jump a four-engine work train, hoping to ride it to freedom. When the engineer is killed, the convicts find themselves aboard a runaway train hurtling through the frozen Alaskan wilderness. Pursued by a brutal prison warden who will stop at nothing until they're caught, Manny and Buck, with the help of female railroad worker, struggle to bring the train under control before it crashes.
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