Escape from New York

• Movie

  Type

• 1981

  Year

• 1h 39m

  Runtime

• ★ 7.1

  Rating

• Science Fiction / Action

  Genre

In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash lands on the island, the authorities turn to a former soldier and current convict, Snake Plissken, to rescue him.

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Cast

Kurt Russell

Snake Plissken

Lee Van Cleef

Police Commissioner Bob Hauk

Donald Pleasence

President of the United States

Adrienne Barbeau

Maggie

Harry Dean Stanton

Harold 'Brain' Helman

Ernest Borgnine

Cabbie

Isaac Hayes

The Duke of New York

Frank Doubleday

Romero

Tom Atkins

Rehme

Charles Cyphers

Secretary of State

Season Hubley

Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts

John Strobel

Cronenberg