I saw this film in The old gym at boarding school in England on a Saturday night, sitting on rickety wooden in 1983 when I was thirteen. I was mesmerized. Couldn’t get enough of it, the characters, the story etc. and the music was perfect too.
The green computer vector graphics of the buildings when Snake is flying the glider weren't made on a computer. They were cardboard models of the buildings outlined with white tape and then shot with a green filter to make it look like computer graphics.
When they MADE movies. TRON shot in black and white, then every frame hand colored. Scanner Darkly tried digital, fail, shot in black and white, then cartooned over it every frame.
I did indeed miss all of these things in the movie, but to be fair Adrienne Barbeau's fantastic bust is in the movie and that absorbed all of my attention as a young man.
2nd favorite Carpenter movie after Halloween. seen it 100+ times since I saw it in theaters when it came out and never thought about that either until now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I totally agree with you. Halloween was awesome! I think Carpenter movies have amazing appeal because of the music he composes for them. It really sets an incredible mood... that I can't get enough of...
God!!! Joh Carpenter is so good!! I'm 64 years old and John's films have always been a part of my life. And everyone of them has been brilliant. Thank you John, You are more than a little bit that makes up my psyche!
I remember, when this first came out, I threw fit because I realized I would be out of the country with my mom on opening day. That Friday night I begged her to call my dad so I could ask him how it was. When I got back the following week, he took me to go see it and I've watched it probably 200 times since then. #2 of my top 3 favorite movies. Bestest EVER!
#11 A kid saw the movie and felt cheated that the head of the statute of liberty wasn't in the street as the movie poster showed -that young fan would grow up and create Cloverfield which did show the head of the statute of liberty in the street
Correction: the nail was already embedded in the piece of wood strapped to Baker’s neck; Russell just had to swing hard enough to drive the nail into the bat.
Did u mention the movie inspired Metal Gear Solid's main charachter Solid Snake. Also decades later Cyberpunk 2077 uses the same story line for uts dogtown dlc
I loved that movie cause im getting old and a big fan of Kurt Russell and there was some classic actors for one Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasance, Earnest Borgnine and other i can't remember all names. Great John Carpenter movie.👍🇭🇲🇭🇲✌️
Actually, EAST St. Louis, across the river, is where they filmed the exterior shots because it was so destitute. I was in high school and remember newspaper ads for extras.
The ChockFull Of Nuts, top of the World Trade Centre and glider take off scenes were constructed and filmed in the middle of Indian Dunes Ranch near Valencia in LA County. The same ranch where Vic Morrow and the two children died during the making The Twilight Zone movie in 1982.
Oh, wow. I remember that. The SFX crew forgot to remove the top covers on the 55 gallon barrels during the helicopter scene in the Twilight Zone Movie. Since the director insisted on flying the chopper low for the shot, one of the covers struck the blades when the charges were set off for fireball effects. The chopper went down, decapitated Morrow and crushed the kids, who weren't even supposed to be allowed on set under these conditions.
Thanks for your video! Nice list of weird things. Great movie. Set in 1997. Saw it in the theater in 1981. Both a long time ago now. Fun fact: Soylent Green is set in 2022, and A Boy and His Dog is set in 2024. We did not have faith in the future, as evidenced by wicked cool sci-fi from the '70s.
My cousin was in a punk band at the time. Got to be an extra. He crawls out of the sewer. Saw the Ramones on their Escape from New york tour at the Fox Theater where the theater scenes were filmed. The Ramones walked out to the EFNY theme. LOVED this movie. Still do
One of the greatest movies ever from the 1980's. They keep trying to remake it but you could only improve special effects, but not the story, acting, and directing.
Still a movie that I go back & watch from time to time. I'm still wondering why, until about 5yrs. ago, I had never heard about a local St. Louis strip club being mentioned in the end credits. Truly a classic film from beginning to end.
The Fabulous Fox Theater before being renovated. The Union Station scene ring fight is now one of the nicest posh places in St. Louis. TH-cam it. It’s magnificent now.
The beautiful stained glass window is still in that room, called the "Grand Hall" and a few years after the movie, the entire station and "castle" was either renovated to its former glory (and it is glorious) or ripped out and replaced with a hotel and shopsand restaurants. Now the shops and restaurants are mostly gone but we have a nice aquarium and large ferris wheel out back.
love this kind of stuff! I just stayed on the Queen Mary and the Farris Wheel out front for the Halloween event was Micheal Jackson's from Neverland, wow!
Debra Hill was an awesome producer . Her work made this low budget independent movie look like a big budget film . I believe the special effects team became the same family business that did on ALIENS . And Jame Cameron worked for them during EFNY .
The rifles carried by the US Police Force troopers were selective fire M16A1s or semi-auto Colt SP1s with the forends replaced with a plastic tube. (This was so they would look futuristic.) The submachinegun carried by Snake in the beginning was an RPB MAC-10 with a SIONICS suppressor and a rifle scope, chambered in 9mm Parabellum. It had a holster and three 32-round magazines in a 3-cell magazine pouch. It's later captured and used by The Duke of New York. The scoped stainless steel revolver carried by Plissken is a Smith & Wesson M67 chambered in .38 Special. It was issued with two speedloaders. It's the gun Maggie fires at The Duke's car during Plissken's escape.
I saw this at the cinema in 1981 I was 11 years old. I don't imagine a kid of the same age would be allowed to see it if it was released today. I also saw American Werewolf which was released the same year I think. It scared the hell out of me.
🤫- ssssshhhhh... ...keep that on the downlow, Charles... ...let out that I'm real, next thing I know, some cop will want me to rescue some president, and I'm NOT doin' that s*** again!
Carpenter got to play with a world class set of ta ta's, never knew that. When they came out to play in Swamp Thing as a kid, a PG13 movie mind you, I was in blown away into heaven.😋😇
They changed the beginning of the movie after 9/11. Nobody wants to mention that. I agree, it's an excellent movie, and I bought a digital copy of it recently.
There is an actress named season hubley in one scene (when snake hides in what looks like a diner, and she gets pulled through the floor by the crazies coming out of the sewers). She was married to Kurt Russel at the time and I think that is the reason she was in the film.
If you catch when Snake hits Slag with the bat, Snake lets it go, it's momentarily stuck in Slag's head, then drops out...then afterwards in the shot where the gang members start approaching the ring, you can see the bat is stuck back in Slag's head again.
Like "Blade Runner", "Escape from New York" did not do well at the box office. However, both films are now considered iconic. Ridley Scott's sequel to Blade Runner was a box office darling but, "Escape from L.A." is sadly, absolute trash of the highest order. Trying to "catch lightening in a bottle" continues to be one of Hollywood's greatest blunders. Maybe they should give Scott a crack at Escape from New York.
There was some questions if Russell, who had been in Disney movies less than a decade earlier and had previously played Elvis Presley could be taken serious as Snake Plissken. During filming one night, Russell and John Carpenter went walking away from the set in St. Louis as the crew was setting up a shoot. They didn't realize they left the designated film area and were in a real neighborhood. When some young men hanging out on a building stoop saw Russell as Snake and Carpenter with his long hair walking toward them, one guy got defensive and said, "Hey, we ain't looking for any trouble here." It was at that time, Carpenter knew Russell was perfect as Snake.
Where is the video thumbnail from? It’s not a still from the original movie, but a re-creation of the scene. What’s amazing about this is that the actors’ poses are perfect compared to the original movie scene .. right down to the angle of their heads (compared it directly to the actual scene).
The blond weirdo who liaises with the POTUS' men reminds me of a young Michael Biehn. I even checked the cast. but the character was played by a different actor.
Interesting fact n0 12....the black and white photo of John Carpenter and Kurt Russell at 4.15 wasn't on the set of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK but from one of Carpenters other movies, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA :)
One of the great 80ies movies one is longing for today. They don't make those anymore, see others like Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars 1st, and so on and so on...
On one of the commentarys as I remember, the death sentence he has to get treated for at the end was going to be a hoax, which is what they did in the sequel
I wonder if the film had the usual "Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental" disclaimer, as that clearly wasn't the case with this film. (I've seen the film many times, but don't expect me to remember details from the credits).
It is strange they used M16 rifles without the protective barrel covers. In real life, it would easily burn their hands on the barrel. But I guess it makes the rifle look futuristic. Also, Kurt Russell purposely imitated Clint Eastwood's voice when talking to Lee Van Cleef because of the spaghetti westerns Clint did with Lee as kind of a joke for the movie. Another funny thing is that Kurt used an MAC-10 machine gun that holds 30 rounds, but seems to shoot over a hundred rounds per magazine.
Loved this movie when it came out, because I am old!!!
Me too!
And it’s the best antihero whatever the hell that means😢
Right there with you brother. The music was perfect for the movie too.
I’m so old I loved the movie but I actually read the film adaption that tells the actual scene that was cut that tells how Snake was caught!!
And as hard as F! 💪
"Snake plissken, I heard you was dead"!! 😂
Yeah you and everyone else 😂
Most non-New Yorkers thought it was a documentary.
Almost reality
Most St. Louisans were thinking, "Hey, New York looks pretty nice."
I remember New York in the 1970s... it was almost a documentary! Even the cops were scary... really hardboiled MFs.
😂😂
Wait, it's not real!? 😂
I saw this film in The old gym at boarding school in England on a Saturday night, sitting on rickety wooden in 1983 when I was thirteen. I was mesmerized. Couldn’t get enough of it, the characters, the story etc. and the music was perfect too.
Ditto - 15 when I saw it in England - one of best films ever !
The green computer vector graphics of the buildings when Snake is flying the glider weren't made on a computer. They were cardboard models of the buildings outlined with white tape and then shot with a green filter to make it look like computer graphics.
Yes!
That is too cool!
wow didnt know that
When they MADE movies. TRON shot in black and white, then every frame hand colored. Scanner Darkly tried digital, fail, shot in black and white, then cartooned over it every frame.
There was a deleted scene in a futuristic subway station- it was filmed in an Atlanta Marta station.
It is here on youtube. Search for it.
Jamie Lee Curtis is the public announcement voice in the beginning of the movie.
She also played Buckaroo Banzai's mom in a deleted scene
I did indeed miss all of these things in the movie, but to be fair Adrienne Barbeau's fantastic bust is in the movie and that absorbed all of my attention as a young man.
LOL - I never realized that the US President had a British accent. Great list!
2nd favorite Carpenter movie after Halloween.
seen it 100+ times since I saw it in theaters when it came out and never thought about that either until now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I totally agree with you. Halloween was awesome! I think Carpenter movies have amazing appeal because of the music he composes for them. It really sets an incredible mood... that I can't get enough of...
God!!! Joh Carpenter is so good!! I'm 64 years old and John's films have always been a part of my life. And everyone of them has been brilliant. Thank you John, You are more than a little bit that makes up my psyche!
I loved the movie's title music!
"On the floor of John Carpenter's garage..." That shot was from Christine.
The blonde punk is a brilliant character. He steals every scene that he appears in.
His name is Frank Doubleday and he also appears in Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13...👍
Doubleday was great. He's gone now unfortunately.
@@movieswelove99😢😢😢
Me and a friend used to impersonate his death gasp for years afterwards .
You can get his creepy head on t shirts
James Cameron worked in the special effects department on this film at the time and painted some of the matte boards used in the film.....
I remember, when this first came out, I threw fit because I realized I would be out of the country with my mom on opening day. That Friday night I begged her to call my dad so I could ask him how it was. When I got back the following week, he took me to go see it and I've watched it probably 200 times since then. #2 of my top 3 favorite movies. Bestest EVER!
#11 A kid saw the movie and felt cheated that the head of the statute of liberty wasn't in the street as the movie poster showed -that young fan would grow up and create Cloverfield which did show the head of the statute of liberty in the street
You shitting me?
You mean Adrian Barbeau's beewbs? No, I didn't miss them at all! How could you?
Not very missable... I bet John Carpenter didn't miss em.
@@movieswelove99 No doubt about that. LOL!
Lost my own body weight due to those boobs as a 13 year old when I got it on tape.
4:11 Apparently they also shot parts of Big Trouble in Little China at the same time. Who knew?
You are the Duke and your A#1.
I sure noticed how gifted Adrienne Barbeau is .
Kurt also wore an eye-patch, in his hillarious comedy, ‘Captain Ron’.
And here I thought Kirt and Goldie had been together forever.😮
Not until Overboard. But it is weird to hear Kurt's first wife.
@@shawnhensley4884Swing Shift
Correction: the nail was already embedded in the piece of wood strapped to Baker’s neck; Russell just had to swing hard enough to drive the nail into the bat.
Really? That makes sense! Thanks for that.
Kurt's accuracy with a bat was probably helped by the fact that he was reportedly a pretty good minor league baseball player.
No doubt!
I thought that was a bit suspect that would have been a ridiculously stupid idea!
The female narrator at the beginning of the movie is Jamie Lee Curtis
Why does she market that laxative yogurt specifically to women?
NYC in this movie looks cleaner and probably smells better than NYC today.
"Plissken what are you doing?" "Playing with myself"
Adrian Barbeau looks so good in this movie
You mean there were other stuff other than Adrienne Barbeau??
and her BEEWBS! Magnificent, weren't they! They should have gotten an Oscar.
Nah...
Id love to see Wyatt Russell play a young snake with both eyes intact.
And then we would get to see how he lost his eye! My money is on a really bad cat scratch
@@spidey-67 There was a paperback novelization of the movie that stated Snake lost his eye during a chemical attack during the war.
Great idea
I want this prequel too. Wyatt is a dead ringer.
He can't be far off Kurt's age here,... If not older?!?!
Kurt and John are just legends!
Fast and to the point. Thank you.😊
Thanks so much!
Want to rewatch it now.
One of the films that can be rewatched... over and over.
Pluto TV for free or I think it's on Tubi.
One of the greatest movies and greatest soundtracks ever. I watch this movie at least once every few months.
Theme is my ringtone
@@fredmartin328 that's awesome. Mine is "My neighbor's baby" by Guttermouth but I might have to change it. You've inspired me
I remember when they were filming in St Louis..and many of the sites they usee
Did u mention the movie inspired Metal Gear Solid's main charachter Solid Snake. Also decades later Cyberpunk 2077 uses the same story line for uts dogtown dlc
I loved that movie cause im getting old and a big fan of Kurt Russell and there was some classic actors for one Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasance, Earnest Borgnine and other i can't remember all names. Great John Carpenter movie.👍🇭🇲🇭🇲✌️
Actually, EAST St. Louis, across the river, is where they filmed the exterior shots because it was so destitute. I was in high school and remember newspaper ads for extras.
Some.
One of my all time favourite films, I loved watching this one!
There's no way they risked that guy's life with the baseball bat
Now I know why stopping in St Louis was such a bad idea in Vacation!🤕
I was born in1970 and loved watching this movie whn I was young! I even had the nickname Snake in college!
You did a great job. No BS.
Thanks so much!
The ChockFull Of Nuts, top of the World Trade Centre and glider take off scenes were constructed and filmed in the middle of Indian Dunes Ranch near Valencia in LA County. The same ranch where Vic Morrow and the two children died during the making The Twilight Zone movie in 1982.
Really? Thanks!
Oh, wow. I remember that. The SFX crew forgot to remove the top covers on the 55 gallon barrels during the helicopter scene in the Twilight Zone Movie. Since the director insisted on flying the chopper low for the shot, one of the covers struck the blades when the charges were set off for fireball effects. The chopper went down, decapitated Morrow and crushed the kids, who weren't even supposed to be allowed on set under these conditions.
Thanks for your video!
Nice list of weird things.
Great movie.
Set in 1997.
Saw it in the theater in 1981.
Both a long time ago now.
Fun fact: Soylent Green is set in 2022, and A Boy and His Dog is set in 2024.
We did not have faith in the future, as evidenced by wicked cool sci-fi from the '70s.
Nice! Thanks for the cool info!!!
Today, this appears to be the best option for the city.
This movie was the first thing that came to my mind on 9/11, with the similarities of flying a plane into a skyscraper. Eerie!
My cousin was in a punk band at the time. Got to be an extra. He crawls out of the sewer. Saw the Ramones on their Escape from New york tour at the Fox Theater where the theater scenes were filmed. The Ramones walked out to the EFNY theme. LOVED this movie. Still do
One of the greatest movies ever from the 1980's. They keep trying to remake it but you could only improve special effects, but not the story, acting, and directing.
And to think, all of this is based upon a TSR role playing game from 1981! "Once upon a TSR game ... "
Still a movie that I go back & watch from time to time. I'm still wondering why, until about 5yrs. ago, I had never heard about a local St. Louis strip club being mentioned in the end credits. Truly a classic film from beginning to end.
The Fabulous Fox Theater before being renovated. The Union Station scene ring fight is now one of the nicest posh places in St. Louis. TH-cam it. It’s magnificent now.
Thanks!
The beautiful stained glass window is still in that room, called the "Grand Hall" and a few years after the movie, the entire station and "castle" was either renovated to its former glory (and it is glorious) or ripped out and replaced with a hotel and shopsand restaurants. Now the shops and restaurants are mostly gone but we have a nice aquarium and large ferris wheel out back.
This film scared the dodo out of me when I was a kid 😮
The Romero character (Frank Doubleday) scared me bad!
John's High School guy go's a long way. From Snake Pliskken in Escape from New York/LA to Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid.
Straight to the point, no messing about love it 😊
I remember when they filmed this, they were partying on the East side (East St. Louis, home of 24 hour entertainment) after filming stopped at 6am!!
love this kind of stuff!
I just stayed on the Queen Mary and the Farris Wheel out front for the Halloween event was Micheal Jackson's from Neverland, wow!
Debra Hill was an awesome producer . Her work made this low budget independent movie look like a big budget film . I believe the special effects team became the same family business that did on ALIENS . And Jame Cameron worked for them during EFNY .
The rifles carried by the US Police Force troopers were selective fire M16A1s or semi-auto Colt SP1s with the forends replaced with a plastic tube. (This was so they would look futuristic.)
The submachinegun carried by Snake in the beginning was an RPB MAC-10 with a SIONICS suppressor and a rifle scope, chambered in 9mm Parabellum. It had a holster and three 32-round magazines in a 3-cell magazine pouch. It's later captured and used by The Duke of New York.
The scoped stainless steel revolver carried by Plissken is a Smith & Wesson M67 chambered in .38 Special. It was issued with two speedloaders. It's the gun Maggie fires at The Duke's car during Plissken's escape.
Man knows his firearms...
ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE THIS MOVIE CLASSIC
I saw this at the cinema in 1981 I was 11 years old. I don't imagine a kid of the same age would be allowed to see it if it was released today. I also saw American Werewolf which was released the same year I think. It scared the hell out of me.
There is a real Snake Plissken out there 😮
🤫- ssssshhhhh...
...keep that on the downlow, Charles...
...let out that I'm real, next thing I know, some cop will want me to rescue some president, and I'm NOT doin' that s*** again!
The movie was filmed in East St. Louis.
That is a big difference from St Louis.
Oops!
Some.
i thought snake plissen was dead....
You and every other convict.
Everyone thinks he's dead.
He got better
Carpenter got to play with a world class set of ta ta's, never knew that. When they came out to play in Swamp Thing as a kid, a PG13 movie mind you, I was in blown away into heaven.😋😇
World class for sure!
The biggest surprise is that the Secret Service men was Gerald Ford’s son . Probably his only acting job.
I think he was in a day time soap opera for years.
He also played Joe, the boyfriend of Sally (Meg Ryan) in When Harry Met Sally. You know the one that didn’t want to marry her.
He starred in the soap The young and restless for a number of years also
Funny I have only seen escape from LA, not escape from NY... I gotta get this in my collection. 🤦♂🤦♂
It's a must. You'll love it!
New York is by far the superior movie.
@@funtimefoxy6699 I’m gonna grab a copy next paycheck 👍
As stated escape from New York is MUCH better. It has an authentic gritty feel to it.
Toss La, New York is all you need
Whoah! 2:09 💕
Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef! Oh hell yeah! This is a Damn good movie!
They changed the beginning of the movie after 9/11. Nobody wants to mention that.
I agree, it's an excellent movie, and I bought a digital copy of it recently.
Oh? Never heard that.
There is an actress named season hubley in one scene (when snake hides in what looks like a diner, and she gets pulled through the floor by the crazies coming out of the sewers). She was married to Kurt Russel at the time and I think that is the reason she was in the film.
If you catch when Snake hits Slag with the bat, Snake lets it go, it's momentarily stuck in Slag's head, then drops out...then afterwards in the shot where the gang members start approaching the ring, you can see the bat is stuck back in Slag's head again.
Like "Blade Runner", "Escape from New York" did not do well at the box office. However, both films are now considered iconic. Ridley Scott's sequel to Blade Runner was a box office darling but, "Escape from L.A." is sadly, absolute trash of the highest order. Trying to "catch lightening in a bottle" continues to be one of Hollywood's greatest blunders. Maybe they should give Scott a crack at Escape from New York.
Yea... I couldn't get through it. I really tried to enjoy it. But just couldn't.
Blade Runner 2049 was directed by Denis Villeneuve. I thought it was great but it was a massive flop at the box office.
Ridley Scott didn't direct Blade Runner 2049 sequel, Denis Villeneuve did. Scott was just one of the executive producers.
I thought the blade runner sequel was bollocks, it was like watching paint dry FFS.
Allegedly Ghosts of Mars was originally written as a third Snake film...
There was some questions if Russell, who had been in Disney movies less than a decade earlier and had previously played Elvis Presley could be taken serious as Snake Plissken. During filming one night, Russell and John Carpenter went walking away from the set in St. Louis as the crew was setting up a shoot. They didn't realize they left the designated film area and were in a real neighborhood. When some young men hanging out on a building stoop saw Russell as Snake and Carpenter with his long hair walking toward them, one guy got defensive and said, "Hey, we ain't looking for any trouble here." It was at that time, Carpenter knew Russell was perfect as Snake.
Wow... how do you know such details?
Snake Blisken. I love Kurt Russel
She looked badasses shooting that bop gun!!!!
All in all, this was a pretty cool movie. I had it on VHS even. The sequel Escape from LA was a bit disappointing though.
I didn’t know Donald pleasence had a sense of humor. He’s one of my favorite actors.
He was also a war survivor from the second world war . He was a POW of Japan .
I adore the two escape movies
Your shot at 3:47 is Arnie in the Movie Christine....lol
Where is the video thumbnail from? It’s not a still from the original movie, but a re-creation of the scene.
What’s amazing about this is that the actors’ poses are perfect compared to the original movie scene .. right down to the angle of their heads (compared it directly to the actual scene).
Wow... good eye. It's the magic of AI image creators.
Wow who knew the flinch issac hayes kept on doing throughout the movie 🙄.. Never knew hes doing the eye twitch on purpose😳
You know, we saw it on VHS on a ratty old vacuum tube color tv set. We didn't notice a lot.
The blond weirdo who liaises with the POTUS' men reminds me of a young Michael Biehn. I even checked the cast. but the character was played by a different actor.
Those were some goof facts. Didn't know most of them.
Thanks!
Interesting fact n0 12....the black and white photo of John Carpenter and Kurt Russell at 4.15 wasn't on the set of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK but from one of Carpenters other movies, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA :)
Thanks for that.
@@movieswelove99 Your welcome :)
One of the great 80ies movies one is longing for today. They don't make those anymore, see others like Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars 1st, and so on and so on...
The garage scene looks like it's right out of Christine. Another one of carpenter's movies.
The punk Romero was named for George Romero, the director of _Night of the Living Dead_ . That's why he looks so unusual, like a zombie.
I saw that movie at the drive in when I was ten. At the time I thought it was good. For 1981 it was dare I say good. Now I would watch it for a laugh.
It's got a mood few films can capture.
On one of the commentarys as I remember, the death sentence he has to get treated for at the end was going to be a hoax, which is what they did in the sequel
I wonder if the film had the usual "Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental" disclaimer, as that clearly wasn't the case with this film. (I've seen the film many times, but don't expect me to remember details from the credits).
Call me Snake !! 🙏
love number 2 the most
It is strange they used M16 rifles without the protective barrel covers. In real life, it would easily burn their hands on the barrel. But I guess it makes the rifle look futuristic. Also, Kurt Russell purposely imitated Clint Eastwood's voice when talking to Lee Van Cleef because of the spaghetti westerns Clint did with Lee as kind of a joke for the movie. Another funny thing is that Kurt used an MAC-10 machine gun that holds 30 rounds, but seems to shoot over a hundred rounds per magazine.
Thanks for the facts 🙂 Can someone tell me, why the movie was called "Die Klapperschlange" (the rattlesnake) in Germany?
They used a stunt double called Fake Plissken.
This move was cool; they could do a remake but the way things are today; Disney probably do it
I knew all of this already being a super fan, but thanks for putting it all out there in one place. I also subscribed to your page.
Thank you so much!
did the real snake plissken get paid ?
Only when he stole John Carpenter's lunch money.
He got his reward, the tape.......
I´am sure the real Snake Plissken was pleased by this movie