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Released
1985 · FILM

Runaway Train

A hardened convict and a young escapee battle to survive a deadly, out-of-control train ride with a trapped railway worker while evading a relentless prison enforcer.

“Desperate, and determined to survive.”

Directed by
Andrei Konchalovsky
Written by
Akira Kurosawa, Djordje Milicevic
Runtime
111 min
ActionAdventureDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison during the middle of winter, only to find themselves aboard an out-of-control train with a female railway worker, while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Henry RichardsonShot by Alan HumeScored by Trevor JonesDesigned by Stephen Marsh

Box Office

1985 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$7.9M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$7.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $7.7M — 97% of worldwide · International: $252K (3%)

Also known as

  • Express in die Höllede
  • El tren del infiernoes
  • A 30 secondi dalla fineit
  • A trenta secondi dalla fineit

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