History Film / RunawayTrain

->'''Eddie MacDonald:''' Hey, Barstow. Why don't you stop her? You put the system in. Cost the company 4.5 million.

->'''Superintendent MacDonald:''' Hey, Barstow. Why don't you stop her? You put the system in. Cost the company 4.5 million.

->'''Supervisor:''' Can't you do something about that runaway with this expensive routing system? We spent 3 1/2 million dollars, which you recommended!
->'''Dispatcher:''' This system is designed to efficiently ''move'' trains, not to efficiently ''crash'' them!

->Supervisor: Can't you do something about that runaway with this expensive routing system? We spent 3 1/2 million dollars, which you recommended!
->Dispatcher: This system is designed to efficiently ''move'' trains, not to efficiently ''crash'' them!

* CaptivityHarmonica

* {{Determinator}}: Manny

* FlippingTheBird
* GreatEscape

* HollywoodHeartAttack

* PrisonsAreGymnasiums
* RatedMForManly

* SceneryPorn
* SoundtrackDissonance
* TakingYouWithMe

* TitleDrop
* VertigoEffect
* VillainProtagonist
* WindowPain

Based on a screenplay by Creator/AkiraKurosawa, the film tells a tale of two convicts, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts) who escape from an Alaskan prison and end up on [[TitleDrop a runaway train]] with no brakes on it. While the train races across the snow-covered landscape, they come across a remaining railroad worker Sara (Rebecca De Mornay) who warns them that the track they're on leads to certain doom, so the three of them must work to either stop or slow the train. Complicating things are the railroad company looking to derail the train before it causes any casualties along the line, and ruthless prison warden Rankin with a grudge against Manny who quickly figures the two convicts are aboard the train...

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]: [[spoiler:Manny makes the jump onto the main train engine, at the cost of half his hand. He defeats Rankin and traps him on the engine, and then goes back out and decouples the engine from the rest of the train, sparing Buck and Sara's lives before climbing onto the engine's roof and [[FaceDeathWithDignity finish the ride]] somewhere off the horizon. It's left to the viewer to determine if Manny was doing it to spare Buck and Sara or defy the warden's expectations.]]

* JustTrainWrong

Based on a screenplay by Creator/AkiraKurosawa, the film tells a tale of two convicts, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts) who escape from an Alaskan prison and end up on [[TitleDrop a runaway train]] with no brakes on it. While the train races across the snow-covered landscape, they come across the remaining train employee Sara (Rebecca De Mornay) who warns them that the track they're on leads to certain doom, so the three of them work to either stop or slow the train. Complicating things are the railroad company looking to derail the train before it causes any casualties along the line, and ruthless prison warden Rankin with a grudge against Manny who quickly figures the two convicts are aboard the train...

'''''Runaway Train''''' is an action thriller film from the year 1985 by AndreiKonchalovsky.

Based on a screenplay by AkiraKurosawa, the film tells a tale of two convicts, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts) who escape from an Alaskan prison and end up on [[TitleDrop a runaway train]] with no brakes on it. While the train races across the snow-covered landscape, they come across the remaining train employee Sara (Rebecca De Mornay) who warns them that the track they're on leads to certain doom, so the three of them work to either stop or slow the train. Complicating things are the railroad company looking to derail the train before it causes any casualties along the line, and ruthless prison warden Rankin with a grudge against Manny who quickly figures the two convicts are aboard the train...

* {{Dedication}}: This film is dedicated to Richard Holley, a helicopter pilot who died during the filming.

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Rebecca De Mornay, who plays Sara, also played Lana in ''RiskyBusiness'' and Peyton Flanders in ''TheHandThatRocksTheCradle''.
** DannyTrejo and Tommy "Tiny" Lister make their film debuts in this movie.

* HollywoodHomely: De Mornay was made to look as unattractive as possible.

* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The film ends with a quote from ''RichardIII''.
-->"No Beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. [[HumansAreBastards But I know none]], and therefore am no beast."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: AkiraKurosawa also planned to direct this movie, but the plans fell through.

* FeedMe: Manny in a [[AwardBait scenery-chewing speech]] telling Buck about the futility of dreams and how men like them will end up in nowhere jobs suffering indignities.
-->'''Manny''': I'll tell you what you gonna do. You gonna get a job. That's what you gonna do. You're gonna get a little job. Some job a convict can get, like scraping off trays in a cafeteria. Or cleaning out toilets. And you're gonna hold onto that job like gold. Because it is gold. Let me tell you, Jack, that is gold. ''You listenin' to me?'' And when that Man walks in at the end of the day. And he comes to see how you done, you ain't gonna look in his eyes. You gonna look at the floor. Because you don't want to see that fear in his eyes when you jump up and grab his face, and slam him to the floor, and make him scream and cry for his life. So you look right at the floor, Jack. ''Pay attention to what I'm sayin', motherfucker''!

* FeedMe: Manny in a scenery-chewing speech telling Buck about the futility of dreams and how men like them will end up in nowhere jobs suffering indignities.

'''''Runaway Train''''' is an action thriller film from the year 1985.

** Danny Trejo and Tommy "Tiny" Lister make their film debuts in this movie.

* FanBoy: Buck worships the ground Manny walks on. Gets a little disillusioned when Manny's viciousness becomes apparent as they work on stopping the train.

* ThrillerOnTheExpress

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: The audience doesn't see Manny and Warden Rankin dying on the final engine, which races into the snow-covered horizon as images of sullen-faced prisoners -- except for Manny's friend, [[BittersweetEnding who smiles]] -- cross the fading screen.]]

* RunawayTrain: WhatItSaysExactlyOnTheTin.

* FeedMe: Manny telling Buck about the futility of dreams and how men like them will end up in nowhere jobs suffering indignities.

* RunawayTrain

Based on a screenplay by AkiraKurosawa, the film tells a tale of two convicts, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts) who escape from an Alaskan prison and end up on [[TitleDropa runaway train]] with no brakes on it. While the train races across the snow-covered landscape, they come across the remaining train employee Sara (Rebecca De Mornay) who warns them that the track they're on leads to certain doom, so the three of them work to either stop or slow the train. Complicating things are the railroad company looking to derail the train before it causes any casualties along the line, and ruthless prison warden Rankin with a grudge against Manny who quickly figures the two convicts are aboard the train...

Based on a screenplay by AkiraKurosawa, the film tells a tale of two convicts, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts) who escape from an Alaskan prison and end up on a train with no brakes on it. While the train races across the snow-covered landscape, they come across the remaining train employee Sara (Rebecca De Mornay) who warns them that the track they're on leads to certain doom, so the three of them work to either stop or slow the train. Complicating things are the railroad company looking to derail the train before it causes any casualties along the line, and ruthless prison warden Rankin with a grudge against Manny who quickly figures the two convicts are aboard the train...

** The train itself refuses to be slowed by any means, slamming through obstacles as though possessed..
* FeedMe: Manny telling Buck about the futility of dreams.

-->'''Manny''': No, worse! Human. Human!

* {{Did not Choo the Research}}

* EnemyMine: Manny and Rankin. Also covers TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou.

-->"No Beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast."

* WindowPain

Based on a screenplay by AkiraKurosawa, the film tells a tale of two convicts, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts) who escape from prison and end up on a train with no brakes on it.