Cinematheque's Marquee Mondays
Escape From New York |USA | 1981 | DCP | 99 min. Director: John Carpenter
Event Details
Date
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Time
7 p.m.
Location
The Marquee, Union South
Description
Cast: Kurt Russell, Isaac Hayes, Ernest Borgnine
Russell stars as legendary action movie anti-hero Snake Plissken in this fun, futuristic thriller, briskly and classically directed by genre specialist Carpenter. Career criminal Snake is plunged into 1997 Manhattan, which has been turned into a maximum security prison for the country’s worst criminals. His mission: rescue the U.S. President, who’s being held hostage inside by the Duke of New York (Hayes).
Russell stars as legendary action movie anti-hero Snake Plissken in this fun, futuristic thriller, briskly and classically directed by genre specialist Carpenter. Career criminal Snake is plunged into 1997 Manhattan, which has been turned into a maximum security prison for the country’s worst criminals. His mission: rescue the U.S. President, who’s being held hostage inside by the Duke of New York (Hayes).
Cost
Free
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