Set in a post-apocalyptic New York city, now a walled in prison, the President of the United States (Donald Pleasence) crash lands in an Air Force One escape pod, after the aircraft is taken over by terrorists. Up against the clock, it's up to the soon to be interred prisoner, Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to go into the prisoner controlled bedlam and rescue the President before a deadline for a peace summit passes (the US is at war you see...).
As ever, John Carpenter does the music, as he did with the iconic Halloween (dun dudda dun dun...dun dudda dun dun...) clearly relying heavily on that new fangled invention, the Synth.
BBC computer special effects and a cast of aging stars (Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes and Ernest Borgnine) lend style and substance to an endearing and delightful end of the world moral tale.
Watch it.
You can even watch the sequel, Escape from LA...but it's not really worth it.
Escape from New York cost only $6,000,000, it made $50,000,000 worldwide. That tells you something, surely.
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