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