title: Escape: Human Cargo
text: # Escape: Human Cargo
  
  Escape: Human Cargo is a 1998 American action television film, directed by Simon Wincer. In 1999, the film was nominated at the Motion Picture Sound Editors for the Golden Reel Award in the Best Sound Editing - Television movies category. It lost to A Soldier's Sweetheart.
  
  ## Plot
  
  John McDonald, an American prefabricated housing entrepreneur, is working on a business deal in Saudi Arabia. The business deal goes awry and he's soon arrested by his business partner and made a virtual hostage within the Kingdom and does not receive any help from the U.S. Embassy as they have a noninterference policy with the Saudi government. Fearing for the worst, McDonald crafts a plot to smuggle himself out in a wooden cargo box.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Treat Williams ... John McDonald
  * Stephen Lang ... Dennis McNatt
  * Sasson Gabai ... Suliman Nasir Rasi
  * Ze'ev Revach ... Sheik Abdulla Fazza
  * Rinan Haim ... Silent Sam
  * Uri Gavriel ... Khalid
  