| Record Number |
852625 |
| Title |
Escape from New York [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Australia : Distributed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia, 2019. |
| ©1981. |
| Pagination etc. |
2 DVD-videos (approximately 95 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. |
| Includes special features : Disc 1. Audio commentary with actor Kurt Russel and director John Carpenter ; Audio commentary with producer Debra Hill and production designer Joe Alves ; Audio commentary with actor Adrienne Barbeau and director of photography Dean Cundey -- Disc 2. Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's Escape from New York ; Snake Plissken: Man of Honour ; Deleted opening sequence "Snake's Crime" ; "Big Challenges in Little Manhattan" visual effects featurette ; "I am Taylor" interview with actor Joe Unger ; Photo gallery including behind the scenes ; Original trailers. |
| Creation Note |
Written by John Carpenter and Nick Castle ; produced by Larry Franco and Debra Hill ; directed by John Carpenter. |
| Performer note |
Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence. |
| Summary Note |
In the future, crime is out of control and the island of Manhattan is a maximum security prison. The rules are simple: once you are in, you do not come out. But when the President's plan crash lands into the centre of the city, Snake Plissken, a one eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into a rescue mission to bring the President and his cargo out of this land of undesireables. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification: M. |
| Language note |
In English, French & German with English, French, German subtitles. [CC] English captions (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired). |
| Subject |
Prisons -- United States -- Drama |
| Escaped prisoners -- United States -- Drama |
| Rescues -- United States -- Drama |
| Prisons -- Drama |
| Escaped prisoners -- Drama |
| Rescues -- Drama |
| Aircraft accidents -- Drama |
| Feature films. |
| Dystopian films. |
| Action and adventure films. |
| Thrillers (Motion pictures). |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Added Author |
Carpenter, John, 1948- film director,
screenwriter. |
| Castle, Nick screenwriter. |
| Franco, Larry J. film producer. |
| Hill, Debra film producer. |
| Russell, Kurt actor. |
| Van Cleef, Lee, 1925-1989 actor. |
| Borgnine, Ernest, 1917-2012 actor. |
| Pleasence, Donald actor. |
| Added title |
Escape from New York (Motion picture) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F ESCA |
