Action-Runaway Train

Beta Tape Runaway Train Action/Thriller…MB800867..Color 1hr 52 mins..MGM/UA Home Video…Starring..Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca DeMornay, Kyle T. heffner, John P.Ryan, T.K. Carter, Kenneth McMillan, Stacey Pickren, Walter Wyatt, Edward Bunker…. Jon Voight earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and Eric Roberts one for Best Supporting Actor in this action thriller that was a major hit with audiences and critics from coast to coast.Voight and Roberts play convicts in a high-security prison who escape the inhumane treatment of Chief Guard Ranken and break out into the icy Northeast wilderness. But the heat is one as Ranken heads out in force with the hounds. The cons flee onto a departing freight train only to find themselves prisoners yet again, this time of the speeding train as it hurtles toward certain derailment, its conductor dead of a heart attack. Voight gives a performance that stunned the critics, with Roberts turing in yet another extraordinary characterization. David Sheehan of KNBC-TV in Los Angeles called their portrayls"masterful." Award-winning Russian genius Andrei Konchalovsky (Maria s Lovers) directed this brilliant adaptation of an Akira Kurosawa screenplay. Perhaps Variety summed it up the most succinctly, when it said"Runaway Train is a sensational picture." Catch it!