A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem river, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island.
14 seconds sound clip from the Escape from New York movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:03:18 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent.
- The once-great city of New York becomes the one maximum-security prison for the entire country.
- All bridges and waterways are mined.
- The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island.
- There are no guards inside the prison: only prisoners and the worlds they have made.
- The rules are simple. Once you go in, you don't come out.
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Actors: Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken), Lee Van Cleef (Bob Hauk), Ernest Borgnine (Cabbie), Donald Pleasence (President John Harker), Isaac Hayes (The Duke), Harry Dean Stanton (Brain)
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