Q 01/05

In which US state does Runaway Train unfold, as two escaped convicts hurtle through frozen wilderness?

A) Minnesota

B) Maine

C) Alaska

D) Vermont

Answer · why

C) Alaska

Alaska supplied the real thing too: a second unit filmed the bridge sequence on the state's own rail line, a few miles outside the port town of Whitti...

Q 02/05

Which actor, the father of Angelina Jolie, plays the hardened convict Manny in Runaway Train?

A) Jon Voight

B) Bruce Dern

C) Ryan O'Neal

D) Martin Sheen

Answer · why

A) Jon Voight

Jon Voight won a Golden Globe for the part and an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. He had already taken that Oscar seven years earlier for Coming Home...

Q 03/05

Which 1994 action hit did Graham Yost write after his father described the plot of Runaway Train?

A) True Lies

B) Blown Away

C) Drop Zone

D) Speed

Answer · why

D) Speed

Speed grew out of a mix-up: Yost's father wrongly believed a bomb kept the locomotives racing. Yost liked the idea better than the truth and moved it ...

Q 04/05

Which Japanese filmmaker wrote the 1960s script behind Runaway Train, planning it as his first colour film?

A) Kon Ichikawa

B) Akira Kurosawa

C) Masaki Kobayashi

D) Nagisa Oshima

Answer · why

B) Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa meant to shoot it in America in 1966, but the plan collapsed and the script sat unfilmed for almost two decades. A new team then rework...

Q 05/05

Which tough-guy actor made his film debut in Runaway Train after visiting the set as a drug counsellor?

A) Danny Trejo

B) Michael Madsen

C) Luis Guzman

D) Cheech Marin

Answer · why

A) Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo came to help a young crew member, was offered work as an extra, and ended up coaching the film's young co-star in boxing. He appears on sc...