Bags of Action Episode 20 - Escape from New York

This is Bags of Action. The podcast is devoted to action movies, both old and new, but all of them awesome! In this episode, part two of our trilogy devoted to Kurt Russell, we talk about another John Carpenter film, the action classic from 1981, Escape from New York. Russell plays the legendary character, Snake Pliskin, who became a cult figure and eventually Russell reunited with Carpenter for the sequel. In this film Carpenter has again not only directed the film but given it his own unique stamp, scoring the music as well. There is also a long list of very famous names in this film from Ernest Borgnine to Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau to Donald Pleasence playing the President of the United States. At the end of the episode we announce what the third film in our Russellology is going to be. Also mentioned in the podcast this episode was Archie vs. Predator comic. More info is available here. If you really like Escape from New York then there are some awesome t-shirts from Fright Rags. If you live in the USA and are on the east coast, and can get to a show in time, you might able to see Point Break: Live! Boom! Studious are currently publishing an Escape from New York ongoing comic book series. During the episode Pete also mentions Doberman the comic. Click here for more information. If you would like to get in touch you can join in the discussion of all things related to action movies over on the Facebook Group or you can follow Bags of Action on Twitter @BagsofAction. You can also email us at bagsofaction [at] gmail [dot] com.