The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

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Four seemingly-unrelated men board subway train Pelham 1:23 at successive stations. Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey and Mr. Brown are heavily armed and overpower the motorman and novice conductor to take control of the train. Between stations they separate the front car from the remainder of the train, setting passengers in the back cars and the motorman free. The four demand $1 million ransom within exactly one hour for the remaining eighteen hostages, including the conductor.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three:

Walter Matthau
Robert Shaw
Martin Balsam
Héctor Elizondo
Earl Hindman
James Broderick

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Four seemingly-unrelated men board subway train Pelham 1:23 at successive stations. Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey and Mr. Brown are heavily armed and overpower the motorman and novice conductor to take control of the train. Between stations they separate the front car from the remainder of the train, setting passengers in the back cars and the motorman free. The four demand $1 million ransom within exactly one hour for the remaining eighteen hostages, including the conductor. If their demands are not met in time or their directions are not followed precisely, they will begin to shoot hostages dead, one every minute the money is late. Wisecracking Lt. Zach Garber of the transit police ends up being the primary communicator between the hijackers and the authorities, which includes transit operations, his own police force, the NYPD, and the unpopular and currently flu ridden mayor who will make the ultimate decision of whether to pay the ransom. Unknown to Garber, what may be working on their side is the disparate nature of the four hijackers, including methodical and unbending Blue, trigger happy Grey, and also under the weather Green, who may pass out before the caper has concluded. What Garber does know is that there is a plain clothes NYPD officer among the eighteen hostages. What Garber has to try and figure out is how the four hijackers can possibly get away, as they are in a tunnel and have to remain with the train since it has a dead-man mechanism which requires a motorman at the controls at all times.

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eFilmCritic.com - 10/10 by Rob GonsalvesSurly humor powers the movie as much as the ticking-clock premise does.
Netflix - 10/10 by James RocchiLittle-known gem of a '70s New York crime thriller is near perfect to begin with, and even better on DVD.
Variety - 9/10 by Todd McCarthyThe Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a good action caper about a subway car heist under the streets of Manhattan.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review - 9/10 by Michael A. SmithShaw at his best and an obvious influence on "Reservoir Dogs."
Seanax.com - 9/10 by Sean Axmaker... hasn't the credentials of Dog Day Afternoon or The French Connection but this ingenious crime caper / hostage drama is one of the great New York crime films of the 1970s.
The New York Times - 8/10 by Nora SayreThroughout, there's a skillful balance between the vulnerability of New Yorkers and the drastic, provocative sense of comedy that thrives all over our sidewalks.
Empire Magazine - 8/10 by William ThomasThe kind of gritty, relentless thriller that could only come from the '70s.
Filmcritic.com - 8/10 by Chris CabinAn archeological specimen from nearly two decades before the advent of the Metrocard
Combustible Celluloid - 8/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonThis is gritty, entertaining 1970s filmmaking at its finest.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Dave KehrSuperior exercise in urban paranoia; the superb location work of director Joseph Sargent goes a long way toward tempering the artificialities of the plot.

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