Westbound Convict Train 西行囚车
Chinese title (trad.):
西行囚車
Chinese title (simpl.):
西行囚车
Russian title:
Арестантский поезд, идущий на запад
Release year:
1989
Country:
China
Running time:
86 minutes
Genre:
drama
Language:
mandarin
Description:
A unit of the armed police is ordered to escort a special train carrying important criminal offenders to a prison somewhere in the west. The gang leader Zheng Zhong-Li, in order to rescue his already captured accomplice Luo Pan, makes meticulous arrangements: he assigns his accomplice Du Ming to deliberately cause trouble and get himself jailed, to make contact with Luo Pan on the train, and then, when the train passes through Qinglong Town, to manage to write the number of their carriage on an insole and throw it out through the toilet passage; Wang Ji-Chang, after picking up the insole, is to immediately telephone Zhao Peng, who is waiting at the south entrance of the station; Zhao Peng, in turn, is to deliver escape tools to Luo Pan and Du Ming through the toilet passage; he himself will… Show more provide support along the route by helicopter. Once the arrangements are complete, the criminals act separately. As the convict train nears Qinglong Town, Luo Pan incites the prisoners to fight, causing chaos inside the carriage. When the veteran policeman Zhao Ri comes to stop them, Du Ming pretends to have diarrhea and asks to have his handcuffs removed so he can go to the toilet, seizing the chance to throw the contact insole out through the passage. Unexpectedly, at Qinglong Town a women's prison carriage is attached to the special train, and when Zhao Peng, according to plan, passes up the tools for the crime, the woman prisoner Bai Wei, who is in the toilet, is terrified, snatches the dagger, and tries to kill herself. Ding Cong, commander of the armed police unit, immediately orders the woman prisoner Luo Su-Fang, who once worked as a surgeon, to give emergency treatment. After regaining consciousness, Bai Wei reveals where the dagger came from. The chief commander He Rui-Xiong immediately orders the toilets sealed. Zheng Zhong-Li's first plan has failed. The train enters the Gobi region, and many passengers stranded at the station because the convict train is late gather there; in their anger they refuse to supply water to the train. By this time Zheng Zhong-Li has flown to the area and made contact with the underworld boss Lang San, while Luo Pan's sister Luo Ling has traded her body to Lang San for powerful explosives and firearms, intending to blow up the women's prison carriage and, in the confusion, rescue Luo Pan and Du Ming. When Zheng Zhong-Li is planting a bomb on the roof of the women's carriage, he is spotted by the policeman Da Li. He Rui-Xiong orders Ding Cong to move the women prisoners away and then leads his men in a gun battle with Zheng Zhong-Li. Zheng Zhong-Li is shot dead, and Luo Pan, Du Ming, and the other prisoners are subdued by the armed police. Ding Cong, disregarding danger to his life, rushes onto the roof of the carriage and hurls the time bomb onto the roadside. Over five days and five nights, the armed police unit safely escorts the convict train to its destination and victoriously completes its mission.
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