From Socks
Description: Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton. The film's storyline, set in the near-future world of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country's maximum-security prison. Air Force One is hijacked by insurgents and is deliberately crashed in New York City. Ex-soldier and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Russell) is given just 24 hours to go in and rescue the President of the United States.
Description: Vintage spook-show style design for a live appearance by the Amazing Criswell, the stage name of professional psychic Jeron Criswell King. Criswell was a frequent guest of The Tonight Show and is best remembered today for his appearances in Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space and Night of the Ghouls.
