Runaway Train is a 1985 film

1985 in film

-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...

 about two escaped convicts and a female train worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska

Alaska

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. It stars Jon Voight

Jon Voight

Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie....

 as Oscar "Manny" Manheim, Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts

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 as Buck, John P. Ryan

John P. Ryan (actor)

John P. Ryan was an American character actor, best known for his role as Warden Ranken in the 1985 film Runaway Train.Ryan died from a stroke in Los Angeles, California in 2007 at the age of 70.-Filmography:...

 as Associate Warden Ranken and Rebecca De Mornay

Rebecca De Mornay

Rebecca De Mornay is an American film and television actress. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business opposite Tom Cruise...

 as Sara. It was also the feature debuts of Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo

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 and Tommy "Tiny" Lister

Tom Lister, Jr.

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, who both proceeded to successful careers as tough guy character actor

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The movie was written by Edward Bunker

Edward Bunker

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, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...

, Djordje Milicevic, Hideo Oguni and Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel

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