Runaway Train is a 1985 film which tells the story of two escaped convicts and a female train conductor who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. The movie has a gritty, uninviting atmosphere. It stars Jon Voight as Oscar "Manny" Manheim, Eric Roberts as Buck and Rebecca De Mornay as Sara. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... In rail transport, a train consists of a single or several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to another along a planned route. ... A passanger train conductor is a person who sells and checks tickets on a bus, tram or train. ... A runaway train is a train which is unable to stop or be stopped. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ... Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight Jonathan Voight (born December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York) is an American actor. ... Eric Roberts Eric Anthony Roberts (born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 18, 1956) is a United States film actor. ... Rebecca De Mornay (born August 29, 1962) is an American actress, born in Santa Rosa, California, USA. De Mornay grew up in France and went to college in the United Kingdom. ...

The movie was written by Edward Bunker, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Djordje Milicevic, Hideo Oguni and Paul Zindel. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Edward Bunker (born December 31, 1933 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author of crime fiction, screenwriter and an actor. ... Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics. ... Paul Zindel (born May 15, 1936, died March 27, 2003) was an American author and playwright. ... Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (born August 20, 1937 in Moscow) is a film writer and director, most famous for his American films such as Runaway Train and Tango & Cash. ...

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor (Jon Voight), Best Supporting Actor (Eric Roberts) and Editing. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Academy Award for Best Actor - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ...

The making of

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Plot

Jon Voight plays Manny, a convict in an Alaska prison who was considered so dangerous that the doors to his cell were welded shut. After a court order releases him back into the general prison population, he plans his escape. Buck (played by Eric Roberts) is another convict who works in the prison's laundry room and is to smuggle Manny out. Buck decides to escape along with Manny and the two hop on board a freight train at a remote Alaska railroad station just as the engineer suffers a heart attack and collapses. Neither the two convicts nor the railroad dispatchers are aware that the train is now a runaway. The only railroad worker left on the train is Sara, played by Rebecca De Mornay. An engineer may be someone who practices the engineering profession, or the driver of a rail locomotive. ... A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ...

The train barrels through the remote, snowy Alaska wilderness at a high rate of speed. Once the dispatchers discover it is a runaway and that they cannot stop it as the automated brakes are not working, they attempt to keep the tracks clear for the runaway and plan on derailing it, assuming nobody is left on the train. The prison administrator on the other hand believes his two escaped convicts are aboard the train. He attempts to board the train from the air via helicopter to arrest Manny and Buck. This attempt fails. Manny and Buck, meanwhile, have discovered that Sara is also aboard the train and the three attempt to stop the train. This attempt also fails. A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ...

Manny shows a violent streak throughout the film and repeatedly threatens Buck, while Buck is portrayed more as a victim of circumstances but not too bright. Manny's violent streak, it turns out, is also a suicidal one; this leads to the film's conclusion as Manny tied down the prison administrator ( who successfully get on the first train engine by helicopter ), disconnecting the first train engine form the rest of the units (with Buck and Sara on broad), and didn't shut off the train; which takes Manny and the prison administrator down a dead-end siding to crash to their death. Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed, or attempted the act. ... A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ...

External link

• Runaway Train at the Internet Movie Database
• Film info and some stills