TOP TEN: Fictional Presidents of the United States

4. THE PRESIDENT

As seen in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (Played by DONALD PLEASANCE)

Crash-landing is never good but when you end up crash-landing on Manhattan Island in a dystopian 1997 where the island has been turned into a maximum security prison, that€™s just bad luck. That€™s the fate that befalls the President of the United States in John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. Played by Donald Pleasance, the President manages to survive the crash but is soon held hostage by the inmates, who even go as far as to chop off one of the poor man€™s fingers. Enter Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken who must rescue the President. The President ends up saving Plissken€™s life when he guns down gang leader The Duke played by Isaac Hayes. The trip like image of Blofeld blasting Chef from South Park with a sub machine gun guarantees this President a place on the list.
 
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