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Kurt Russell's then wife Season Hubley who played the girl in the Chock Full O' Nuts had just given birth to their son Boston prior to doing this film.His scenes, (the bank robbery/escape prologue) were deleted but his name remains at the end. In the film as it is, his character is not in it. Joe Unger is listed in the end credits as playing the character of Taylor.Though the rifles can fire without the handguards, they are unable to fire with the gas tube removed (at least in real life) Actually, the M16 can fire single shots, cocking manually, even with the gas tube removed, but would not work in semi-auto, full auto or burst (M16A2) mode.

#Snake escape from ny movie#

The skeletal weapons being carried by the police guards in the beginning of the movie are M16A1 rifles with the ventilated hand-guards and gas tubes removed.The glider used had the designation N2927B and was a Romanian made IS28-B2. He sold the glider to the production company, and then flew it. Bill Bartell was the pilot in the glider sequence at the start of the movie.

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Baker was a professional wrestler known for his Heart Punch finishing move. Russell finally had enough and walked over to Baker and asked him to take it easy and gently tapped him in the groin to let him know he was serious. Ox Baker during the fight sequence really laid into Kurt Russell with some of his blows.Donald Pleasence came up with a backstory to explain how he became President with his British accent but Carpenter didn't use it.It was subsequently used to create new elements for the special edition DVD.

The original negative was considered lost, but later found by the current owner of the film: MGM.

This window is still above the front entry into the grand hall from Market Street. Louis, and San Francisco in the background. While the hall was extremely dilapidated, one can make out the stained glass window representing New York, St. This was filmed a few years before renovation when the building was abandoned.

The fight scene in the wrestling ring was filmed in the grand hall of St.

The buildings in the background were matte-paintings by future director James Cameron.

The shot where the helicopter glides over Central Park were actually filmed in San Fernando.

The only scene actually filmed in New York was the opening dolly shot, which follows a character pass the Statue of Liberty.

The 'city at night' scenes were filmed in St.

Director Trademark: Cronenberg, Romero, Taylor (Don).

The name Snake Plissken was changed to "Cobra" Plissken in the Korean video version.

The name "Snake Plissken" was changed to "Hyena" for the Italian release.

A scene in the beginning of the film where Snake and another criminal are robbing a high-security bank, which leads to his arrest and sentence to New York, was in the original script but was cut from the film before release.

(Computers capable of 3D wire-frame imaging were way too expensive when this was made.) To generate the "wire-frame" images, they built a model of the city, painted it black, attached bright white tape to the model buildings in an orderly grid, and moved a camera through the model city!

The wire-frame computer graphics on the display screens in the glider were not actually computer graphics.

They didn't think Kurt Russell was right for the role because of his prior work.

The studio wanted Tommy Lee Jones for the role of Snake Plissken.