Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York (1981)


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Cast & Crew.

Kurt Russell
Snake Plissken

Lee Van Cleef
Police Commissioner Bob Hauk

Ernest Borgnine
Cabbie

Donald Pleasence
President of the United States

Isaac Hayes
The Duke of New York

Season Hubley
Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts

Harry Dean Stanton
Harold 'Brain' Helman

Adrienne Barbeau
Maggie

Tom Atkins
Rehme

Charles Cyphers
Secretary of State

Frank Doubleday
Romero

John Strobel
Cronenberg

George Buck Flower
Drunk

John Cothran
Gypsy #1

Nancy Stephens
Stewardess

Steven Ford
Secret Service #2

John Carpenter
Secret Service #2 / Helicopter Pilot / Violin Player / Director / Screenplay / Original Music Composer

Jamie Lee Curtis
Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)

Nick Castle
Pianist / Screenplay

Debra Hill
Computer (voice) / Producer

Ox Baker
Slag

Joe Unger
Taylor

Garrett Bergfeld
Gypsy #2

Wally Taylor
Controller

Rodger Bumpass
Dancer

John Diehl
Punk

Cloudia Rebar
Set Decoration

Stephen Loomis
Costume Design

Larry Franco
Producer / First Assistant Director

Alan Howarth
Original Music Composer / Sound Effects

Joe Alves
Production Design

Todd C. Ramsay
Editor

Dean Cundey
Director of Photography

Ken Chase
Makeup Supervisor

Serge Genitempo
Standby Painter

Don Sutton
Leadman

Carl Fischer
Boom Operator

David Ritscher
Assistant Sound Editor

Lee B. Drygas
Swing

Nicholas James
Foley Editor

Benjamin Douglas
Makeup Artist

Jeffrey Chernov
Second Assistant Director

Michael W. Moore
Propmaker

Jake Eberts
Executive Producer

Barry Bernardi
Associate Producer

Jim Lucas
Second Unit Director of Photography

Alan Levine
Production Manager

Frankie Bergman
Hairstylist

Mike May
Property Master

Gregg Landaker
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

David Lewis Yewdall
Sound Editor

Mark Mangini
Dialogue Editor

Roy Arbogast
Special Effects Supervisor / Special Effects Coordinator

Steve Rice
Dialogue Editor

Kevin Pike
Special Effects

Eddie Surkin
Special Effects

Bill Varney
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Arthur Gelb
Graphic Designer

Chris Horner
Assistant Art Director

Ed Zingel
Painter

Sol Aquino
Carpenter

Joseph F. Brennan
Boom Operator

Steve Maslow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Warren Hamilton Jr.
Sound Editor

Joseph C. Fama
Propmaker

Marvin Salsberg
Construction Foreman

Brian Bevis
Special Effects

Gary Zink
Special Effects

Pat Patterson
Special Effects

Eugene Booth
Assistant Property Master

Thomas Causey
Sound Mixer

Mike Johnson
Stunts

David Cronenberg
Thanks

Roydon Clark
Stunts

Buff Brady
Stunts

Mags Kavanaugh
Stunts

Fred Lerner
Stunts

Glory Fioramonti
Stunts

Bill Hart
Stunts

Kent Hays
Stunts

Harvey Parry
Stunts

Jack Tyree
Stunts

Jack Verbois
Stunts

John Moio
Stunts

George Sawaya
Stunts

George P. Wilbur
Stunts

Jesse Wayne
Stunt Double / Stunts

William T. Lane
Stunts
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Details.
Release DateMay 23, 1981
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Budget$6,000,000
Box Office$50,244,700
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This Movie Is About.
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Escape from New York is a 1981 American independent science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau and Harry Dean Stanton.
The film, set in the near-future world of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country's sole maximum security prison. Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents who deliberately crash it into the walled borough. Former Special Forces and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Russell) is given just 24 hours to go in and rescue the President of the United States, after which, if successful, he will be pardoned.
Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s in reaction to the Watergate scandal. After the success of Halloween (1978), he had enough influence to begin production and filmed it mainly in St. Louis, Missouri, on an estimated budget of $6 million. Debra Hill and Larry J. Franco served as the producers. The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who played Michael Myers in Halloween.
Released in the United States on July 10, 1981, the film received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing more than $50 million at the box office. The film was nominated for four Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Direction. The film became a cult classic and was followed by a sequel, Escape from L.A. (1996), which was also directed and written by Carpenter and starred Russell.
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