It will take you to the edge of suspense.
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
- 6.4
- 1990
- Released
- 1h 37m
Gene Hackman
Robert Caulfield
Anne Archer
Carol Hunnicut
James B. Sikking
Nelson
Harris Yulin
Leo Watts
J. T. Walsh
Michael Tarlow
M. Emmet Walsh
Sergeant Dominick Benti
Susan Hogan
Kathryn Weller
Nigel Bennett
Jack Wootton
J.A. Preston
Martin Larner
B.A. 'Smitty' Smith
Keller
Codie Lucas Wilbee
NicholasBarbara Russell
Nicholas' Mother
Antony Holland
Elderly ManDoreen Ramos
Elderly Woman
Kevin McNulty
James DahlbeckAndrew Rhodes
NigroLon Katzman
LoughlinDana Still
Bellman With Message
Lesley Ewen
Larner's SecretaryBarney O'Sullivan
Ticket AgentNatino Bellantoni
BartenderTed Stidder
Conductor #1Lindsay Bourne
Club Car Waiter
Robert Rozen
Dining Car Waiter
Tom McBeath
Conductor #2
Ron Cummins
Hotel Valet
Released
en
$17,500,000.00
$10,900,000.00
- #witness protection
- #night train
- #jump from train
Reviews
Second time watching this and still a solid thriller with a great finale that, save for one shot, looked practical which was great and today would've been done with visual effects. Good performances from Hackman and Archer and at only 94-minutes, a quick but entertaining way to spend a weekend night. **3.5/5**
Narrow Margins and Wide Loads. Director and writer Peter Hyams took the bold decision to reimage one of the best film noir crime pictures of the 1950s, and all things considered it’s not half bad. Without getting close to the greatness of Richard Fleischer’s 1952 claustrophobic suspenser that is. Having Gene Hackman and Anne Archer heading up your two principal characters is a good foundatio