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Cry Freedom! The 25 Greatest Escapes in Movies and TV

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)
THE ESCAPEES The president (Donald Pleasence) and his prisoner/savior, Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell)
FLED FROM Manhattan, which — in the film's dystopian society — has been converted into a maximum-security prison.
HOW THEY DID IT The president and Snake — who was commissioned to save the country's leader in less than 24 hours — scale the prison's 50-foot wall and kill the brutal gang leader the Duke (Isaac Hayes) with the help of some friendly criminals. And people say all New Yorkers are rude.