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Escape from New York

In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.

Director

John Carpenter

Year

Genre

science fiction, action

Box Office

$25,244,626

Production

AVCO Embassy Pictures,Goldcrest,International Film Investors,City Films

Awards

4 nominations

Homepage

http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/escape-from-new-york/

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Snake Plissken

Hauk

Cabbie

Ernest Borgnine

President

Donald Pleasence

The Duke

Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts

Brain

Harry Dean Stanton

Maggie

Adrienne Barbeau

Rehme

Secretary of State

Charles Cyphers

Taylor (scenes deleted)

Romero

Frank Doubleday

Cronenberg

Gypsy #1 (as John Cothran Jr.)

Gypsy #2

Garrett Bergfeld

Gypsy Guard

Richard Cosentino

Gypsy #3

Robert John Metcalf

Gypsy #4

First Indian (as Vic Bullock)

Vicangelo Bulluck

Second Indian

Third Indian

Stewardess

Secret Service #1 (as Steven Gagon)

Steven M. Gagnon

Secret Service #2

Secret Service #3

Red Bandana Gypsy

Helicopter Pilot #1 (as Dale House)

Helicopter Pilot #2

David R. Patrick

Duty Sergeant

Controller

Computer Operator

Trooper

Police Sergeant

Theater Manager

Theater Assistant

Punk

Bum

Drunk (as Buck Flower)

George 'Buck' Flower

Helicopter Pilot #3

Helicopter Pilot #4

Slag

Dancer

Lowmoan Spectacular

Dancer

Ronald E. House

Dancer

Dancer

Joseph A. Perrotti

Dancer (as Roger Bumpass)

Dancer

Gypsy

Narrator - Opening scenes (unconfirmed)

Kathleen Blanchard

Secret Service #2 / Helicopter Pilot / Violin Player (voice)

Pianist

Eye-Patch Prisoner

Narrator

Jamie Lee Curtis

Sewer Orphan

Crazy

Mark Groseclose

Soldier / Bum in Theater

David E. Harshbarger

Computer (voice)

Crazy / Food Drop Prisoner

Guy in Chock Full O'Nuts

Native American Woman

Ringside Prisoner

Sewer Dweller

Barron Winchester

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Snake Plissken Hauk Narrator The Duke President Cabbie Brain Girl In "chock Full O'nuts"Stewardess Cronenberg Romero Maggie Computer Voice

The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country - Escape from New York

The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum...

The Crime Rate in the United States
Rises Four Hundred Percent. - Escape from New York

The Crime Rate in the United States Rises Four Hundred Perce...

This is Gotham 4, North Bay, Station 17. - Escape from New York

This is Gotham 4, North Bay, Station 17.

You have 10 seconds. Turn around.
Start back to the island. - Escape from New York

You have 10 seconds. Turn around. Start back to the island.

Gotham 4, confirm the kill. - Escape from New York

Gotham 4, confirm the kill.

Air traffic, this is Rehme ... - Escape from New York

Air traffic, this is Rehme ...

"No talking. No smoking.
Follow the ORANGE line." - Escape from New York

"No talking. No smoking. Follow the ORANGE line."

Attention You are now entering the debarkation area - Escape from New York

Attention You are now entering the debarkation area

We've got a small jet in trouble,
over restricted air space. - Escape from New York

We've got a small jet in trouble, over restricted air s...

It's too late assholes - Escape from New York

It's too late assholes

Tell this to the workers when they ask where your leader went - Escape from New York

Tell this to the workers when they ask where your leader...

Get me to the pod - Escape from New York

Get me to the pod

Sir, this is a locating device to trace you
if you become separated from the pod. - Escape from New York

Sir, this is a locating device to trace you if you become se...

God save me and watch over you all - Escape from New York

God save me and watch over you all

Computer simulation tracking Air Force One. - Escape from New York

Computer simulation tracking Air Force One.

The plane goes down. - Escape from New York

The plane goes down.

1-W-Larry. Over the battery. - Escape from New York

1-W-Larry. Over the battery.

You touch me... he dies. - Escape from New York

You touch me... he dies.

You touch me he dies - Escape from New York

You touch me he dies

All right. - Escape from New York

I'm not a fool Plissken - Escape from New York

I'm not a fool Plissken

Special Forces Unit Black Light - Escape from New York

Special Forces Unit Black Light

There was an accident about an hour ago A small jet went down inside New York City - Escape from New York

There was an accident about an hour ago A small jet went...

Find the President - Escape from New York

Find the President

Where am I landing - Escape from New York

Where am I landing

- Take off the jacket.
- I'll be OK. - Escape from New York

- Take off the jacket. - I'll be OK.

In 22 hours the Hartford Summit meeting will be over - Escape from New York

In 22 hours the Hartford Summit meeting will be over

We'll burn out the charges IF
you have the President. - Escape from New York

We'll burn out the charges IF you have the President.

I'm ready. - Escape from New York

Remember once inside you're on your own - Escape from New York

Remember once inside you're on your own

20:17:43... 42... 41.... - Escape from New York

20:17:43... 42... 41....

Are you picking up the target blip? - Escape from New York

Are you picking up the target blip?

How's your altitude? - Escape from New York

How's your altitude?

What are you doing - Escape from New York

What are you doing

I'm inside the World Trade Center
on the 50th floor. - Escape from New York

I'm inside the World Trade Center on the 50th floor.

Is the glider intact - Escape from New York

Is the glider intact

I'm at the plane. - Escape from New York

I'm at the plane.

Hey! You're Snake Plissken, ain't you? - Escape from New York

Hey! You're Snake Plissken, ain't you?

Hi, Chief. Nice night. - Escape from New York

Hi, Chief. Nice night.

Easy now, chief. - Escape from New York

Easy now, chief.

All right get your machine ready I'm coming out - Escape from New York

All right get your machine ready I'm coming out

- You a cop?
- No. - Escape from New York

- You a cop? - No.

Hey wait a minute - Escape from New York

Hey wait a minute

You're a cop I'm an asshole - Escape from New York

You're a cop I'm an asshole

Take me out with you Snake - Escape from New York

Take me out with you Snake

Bad neighborhood! You don't want to be
walking from the Bowery to 42nd street at night! - Escape from New York

Bad neighborhood! You don't want to be walking from the...

Bad neighborhood You don't want to be walking from the Bowery to 42nd street at night - Escape from New York

Bad neighborhood You don't want to be walking from the...

Hey, Snake, when'd you get in?
I didn't even know they caught you. - Escape from New York

Hey, Snake, when'd you get in? I didn't even know ...

Where's the President - Escape from New York

Where's the President

I hate to leave her on the street. - Escape from New York

I hate to leave her on the street.

It's OK, Snake. It's a better neighborhood.
You can relax. - Escape from New York

It's OK, Snake. It's a better neighborhood. You c...

YOU'RE Plissken? - Escape from New York

YOU'RE Plissken?

Hey, what do you think of this place, Snake?
It used to be a public library. - Escape from New York

Hey, what do you think of this place, Snake? It used to be a...

Brain Brain I brought somebody to see you - Escape from New York

Brain Brain I brought somebody to see you

You want to see him sprayed all over that map baby Where's the President - Escape from New York

You want to see him sprayed all over that map baby...

Now where's the President - Escape from New York

Now where's the President

You always were smart - Escape from New York

You always were smart

Don't cross the Duke - Escape from New York

Don't cross the Duke

- He's looking for you, Brain
- What does he want? - Escape from New York

- He's looking for you, Brain - What does he want?

Brain. This is Broadway. - Escape from New York

Brain. This is Broadway.

What's wrong with Broadway - Escape from New York

What's wrong with Broadway

He'll be in the third car from
the end, by the last campfire. - Escape from New York

He'll be in the third car from the end, by the last cam...

It's all right. He's got to go in the front way.
It'll take him 5 minutes. - Escape from New York

It's all right. He's got to go in the front way. I...

Are you from the outside? - Escape from New York

Are you from the outside?

Friend of yours, Brain? - Escape from New York

Friend of yours, Brain?

I said who are you? - Escape from New York

I said who are you?

I've heard of you - Escape from New York

I've heard of you

Snaaaaaake Plissken. - Escape from New York

Snaaaaaake Plissken.

This is surveillance 4 to security control. - Escape from New York

This is surveillance 4 to security control.

What did I teach you - Escape from New York

What did I teach you

People out below in the park.
Can you see them? - Escape from New York

People out below in the park. Can you see them?

Warm up the choppers We're moving in - Escape from New York

Warm up the choppers We're moving in

They sent in their best man. - Escape from New York

They sent in their best man.

They sent in their best man - Escape from New York

They sent in their best man

On the hood of my car! - Escape from New York

On the hood of my car!

Hello Where'd you get the hat - Escape from New York

Hello Where'd you get the hat

Cyanide? - Escape from New York

Snake! Snake! - Escape from New York

"Tracer Status: ACTIVATED." - Escape from New York

"Tracer Status: ACTIVATED."

LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!! - Escape from New York

LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!!

Hauk! Plissken's tracer! - Escape from New York

Hauk! Plissken's tracer!

It's gone. - Escape from New York

Goddamned redskins! - Escape from New York

Goddamned redskins!

They're savages - Escape from New York

They're savages

I thought you were dead - Escape from New York

I thought you were dead

Don't talk. - Escape from New York

This whole deal of yours is over, Snake. - Escape from New York

This whole deal of yours is over, Snake.

They're behind us -- - Escape from New York

They're behind us --

You've got to slow down a little, Snake... - Escape from New York

You've got to slow down a little, Snake...

Stay left, stay left, stay left,
and then jog right when I tell you. - Escape from New York

Stay left, stay left, stay left, and then jog right when I t...

Escape from New York poster

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In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.

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Director: John Carpenter

Writer: John Carpenter, Nick Castle

Production: AVCO Embassy Pictures,Goldcrest,International Film Investors,City Films

Genre: science fiction, action

Year: 1981

MetaScore: 76/100

ImdbRating: 7.1

BoxOffice: $25,244,626

Released: 10 Jul 1981

Awards: 4 nominations

Homepage: http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/escape-from-new-york/

Escape From ... Collection: Escape from New York, Escape from L A

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