Obsazení

• Kurt Russell — Snake Plissken
• Lee Van Cleef — Police Commissioner Bob Hauk
• Ernest Borgnine — Cabbie
• Donald Pleasence — President of the United States
• Isaac Hayes — The Duke of New York
• Season Hubley — Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts
• Harry Dean Stanton — Harold 'Brain' Helman
• Adrienne Barbeau — Maggie
• Tom Atkins — Rehme
• Charles Cyphers — Secretary of State
• Frank Doubleday — Romero
• George Buck Flower — Drunk
• Jamie Lee Curtis — Narrator / Computer (voice)
• John Diehl — Punk