Runaway Train

Runaway Train (1985)

24 mistakes - chronological order

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Continuity mistake: When Warden Ranken first goes to see Manny in his cell, he is walking down a prison corridor with prison cells on the left side of the camera and the prison wall on the other side. And when he is coming back from Manny's cell, he is coming down the same corridor. The problem is only that he is going the same direction as he was when he was going TO Manny's cell.

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the film, in the control room, as the guys are arguing about what to do, the man sitting at the computer terminal is wearing a sweater over his shirt and a black watch. The older man says something, then goes over to the terminal, but now the guy's sweater is off and his watch is in front of him on the desk.

Continuity mistake: During the freight train scene, the runaway passes the same set of gondola cars twice.

Manny: You do what you have to do, I'll do what I have to do. Whatever happens, happens.

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Trivia: In the original script Manny was supposed to be a convicted killer but writer Edward Bunker changed it to a safe-cracker because he didn't feel the other prisoners would respect a killer.

Gavin Jackson

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Question: How was Sara so sure that there was no engineer on the train, considering that she was not able to get to the front carriage to find out?

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Chosen answer: Most likely from the speed at which the train was going, a train is like driving any large vehicle. You have to maintain a certain pace, to stop at an instant, for the unexpected.

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