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Movie Description
Ex-Navy SEAL Casey Ryback returns, this time aboard a train which is hijacked by a psycho genius out to steal a satellite weapons system he invented for the government. Only the inscrutable, martial arts and weapons master Ryback can save the day in this all-out actioner.
Synopsis
Travis Dane, a strategic arms genius, hijacks a train and threatens to destroy the world with a top secret satellite. Fortunately, ex-CIA agent Casey Ryback happens to be traveling with his niece on that very same train. Although Dane has countless Uzi-armed henchmen, Ryback's martial arts expertise and quick mind give him enough power to take out the bad guys one by one until he comes face-to-face with the diabolical Dane.
Film Notes
Co-produced by Arnon Milchan-Seagal/Nasso.
Color by Technicolor.
Sound in SDDS, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound.
Additional cast: Sandra Taylor (Kelly) and Royce D. Applegate (Ryback's Cook).
Additional credits: Christopher Boyes (sound design)
"After the Train Has Gone" performed by Gregg Allman, Abraham McDonald, Todd Smallwood, Jean McClain, and Steven Seagal.
Copyright 1995 Warner Bros., Monarchy Enterprises and Regency Entertainment Inc.
The film grossed $50 million at the domestic box office.
Industry Reviews
"...[The film features] an amusingly cast Eric Bogosian..."
USA Today - p.6D - Mike Clark
"...More spectacular [than the original], up to and including the climactic head-on train wreck..." -- Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly - p.62 - Michael Sauter
"...A lively show..."
Los Angeles Times - p.F2 - Peter Rainer
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Variety - A. Thomas Smith (01/01/2001)
"...It moves quickly, has great stunts and special effects, and is a lot of fun..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (07/17/1995)
Quotations
Theatrical release: June 27, 1957.
Filmed on location in New York City.
Burt Lancaster was one of the first film actors to become an independent producer; in 1948 he formed the company Hill, Hecht & Lancaster with his agent Harold Hecht and producer James Hill. Lancaster¿s company produced SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS.
Ernest Lehman based the character J.J. Hunsecker on real-life celebrity gossip columnist Walter Winchell. In 1998, a biopic about the writer, WINCHELL, aired on television.
For Tony Curtis, the part of Sidney Falco was a breakout dramatic role--in his prior film work, he had been typecast either as juvenile delinquents or swashbuckling heroes.
The character Steve Dallas (Martin Milner) plays with real-life jazz musicians of the Chico Hamilton Quintet, who wrote and performed the film¿s songs.
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