The Fear of Freedom ( UK )/ Escape from Freedom ( US )

Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film directed and scored by John Carpenter.

A sequel, Escape from L. A., was released in 1996.

Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for Escape from New York in 1976, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.

Escape from New York grossed $ 25. 2 million in American theaters in summer 1981 with a comparable gross in the international market, resulting in a $ 50 million box office, a revenue-production ratio of almost 7: 1.

J. J. Abrams, producer of the 2008 film Cloverfield, mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for Escape from New York.

Escape from New York was released on DVD twice by MGM ( USA ), and once by Momentum Pictures ( UK ).

* Escape from New York at Official John Carpenter's Website

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PC Gamer wrote that Exile: Escape from the Pit " offers an easygoing point-and-click interface ; pleasant, if unambitious, graphics ; ... literate prose ; and a vast scope.

* Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

* Escape from Hell ( 2009, sequel to Inferno )

Van Cleef also had a supporting role in John Carpenter's cult hit Escape from New York.

During the launch phase of the mission, the Mercury spacecraft and astronaut were protected from launch vehicle failures by the Launch Escape System.

Jenkins mentions use of the word in book titles including Life among the Moonies and Escape from the Moonies, and comments: " These titles further illustrate how the derogatory term ' Moonie ' became a standard for members of this denomination, in a way that would have been inconceivable for any of the insulting epithets that could be applied to, say, Catholics or Jews.

John Carpenter's Escape from New York ( 1981 ) influenced the novel ; Gibson was " intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ' You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?

In 2000, Gellar guest appeared as Debbie in the HBO series Sex and the City episode " Escape from New York ".

Escape from the gas giants ( especially Jupiter ) seems well beyond current or near-term foreseeable chemical-rocket technology however, due to the combination of large velocity and high acceleration needed even to achieve low orbit.

* Maugham, Robin, 1970, Escape from the Shadows.

The Tasman Highway is marketed as " East Coast Escape " between St Helens and Orford, to fit in with Tasmania's scheme of introducing tourist trails, a way of simplifying navigation of key tourist locations in Tasmania.

Some of these groups, who ran restricted service licence ( RSL ) trial stations, included 106. 9 FTR-FM ( Fakenham-August 1997 ), Fakenham Community Radio ( April / May 1999 ), Wensum FM ( East Dereham-3 trials between October 1999 & June 2001 ), Central Norfolk Radio ( Fakenham-5 trials between April 1999 & May 2001 ), Escape FM ( Sheringham-July / August 2000 ) and Tindles own 87. 7 The Beach * ( North Walsham-Christmas 2000 & Holt, Norfolk-June 2001 ).

His films included The Great Escape, Guns at Batasi, Von Ryan's Express and Krakatoa, East of Java.

Fleming originally titled " The Living Daylights " as " Trigger Finger ", although when it first appeared, in the The Sunday Times colour supplement of 4 February 1962, it was under the title of " Berlin Escape ".

* Stevens, Marc H .: Escape, Evasion And Revenge: The True Story of a German-Jewish RAF Pilot Who Bombed Berlin and Became a PoW.

Alcatraz Island appears often in popular culture, including the films The Book of Eli ( 2010 ), X-Men: The Last Stand ( 2006 ), Catch Me If You Can ( 2002 ), The Rock ( 1996 ), Murder in the First ( 1995 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), and J. J. Abrams ' 2012 television series Alcatraz.

* Escape from Zahrain ( 1962 )

Another example of the legend occasionally overshadowing reality was the famed " barbed wire jump " in the 1962 film " The Great Escape " -- a stunt performed by McQueen's good friend and champion motorcycle racer Bud Ekins.

* His friend Tadeusz Drewnowski published several books about Borowski, including the 1962 biography Ucieczka z kamiennego świata ( Escape from the World of Stone ) and Postal indiscretions: the correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski.

* Escape from Zahrain ( 1962 )

Escape Attempt ( Russian: Попытка к бегству, Popytka k begstvu ) is a 1962 sci-fi novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.

The British and other replies to that Moscow note pointed out efforts of the Communist authorities `` to integrate East Berlin into East Germany by isolating it from the outside and attempting to make it the capital of East Germany ''.

The unstable political situation there represents one reason new plants shy away from the East Side.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

The East Greenwich Free Library receives financial support from the town of East Greenwich and the City of Warwick to supplement its endowment.

The education program for retarded children conducted by the East Greenwich school system has pupils from at least one neighboring community.

Recently I traveled the parkway from East Orange to Cape May and I found the most courteous group of men you will find anywhere.

I have just returned from a seven-week trip to Europe and the Far East.

But there is nothing we can do to stop Soviet Russia from granting de facto recognition to East Germany.

When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.

Four or five of the cousins from East Texas were about his age, so naturally they ran around together.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.