Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.
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Jon Voight and Eric Roberts both received Oscar nominations for this existential action flick (based on an unfilmed Kurosawa script) about two escapees from an Alaskan prison who get trapped on a freight train with a dead engineer.
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Rhys said on Jan. 07, 2012 at 5:24am
Classic, underrated 80s thriller. Viewers from Rochester might however be interested to know that scripwriter (and original director) Akira Kurosawa was inspired by a local incident; in Life magazine he read an article about how four locomotives ran away from Syracuse one night in 1962, the train eventually being stopped just before it reached a speed-restricted curve in Rochester. Kurosawa elaborated it into a film script, added the drama of two escaped convicts being onboard, and hoped to film it on the actual Syracuse-Rochester line, but the New York Central was understandably hesitant. Kurosawa got so far as choosing an old secondary route near Albany for his filming location before the project collapsed, due to translation issues and weather issues, until Soviet emigree Andrei Konchalovsky picked up the reins almost twenty years later...
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