Cast
- Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken
- Lee Van Cleef as Bob Hauk
- Ernest Borgnine as Cabbie
- Donald Pleasence as President of the United States
- Isaac Hayes as The Duke of New York City
- Harry Dean Stanton as Harold "Brain" Hellman
- Adrienne Barbeau as Maggie
- Tom Atkins as Rehme
- Charles Cyphers as the Secretary of State
- Joe Unger as Tayler (deleted scenes only)
- Frank Doubleday as Romero
- John Strobel as Cronenberg
- Season Hubley as The Girl in the Chock Full o' Nuts
- Ox Baker as Slag, the fighter
- Jamie Lee Curtis as computer voice and film narrator
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“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”
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