The Taking of Pelham One Two Three R
We are going to kill one passenger a minute until New York City pays us 1 million dollars.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 5, 2016
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: KL Studios Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam & Hector Elizondo | |
Performer: | Earl Hindman, James Broderick, Jerry Stiller, Dick O'Neill & Lee Wallace | |
Directed by | Joseph Sargent | |
Edited by | Jerry Greenberg & Robert Q. Lovett | |
Screenplay by | Peter Stone | |
Composition by | David Shire | |
Art Direction by | Gene Rudolf | |
Story by | John Godey | |
Produced by | Gabriel Katzka & Edgar J. Scherick | |
Director of Photography: | Owen Roizman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
What's good about Pelham's example of the form is that the performances are allowed enough leeway so that we care about the people not the plot mechanics. And what could have been formula trash turns out to be fairly classy trash, after all.
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Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] nervy thriller propelled by a sleazy funk score, drenched in the sweaty intensity of grizzled crims Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam. It's one of the great NYC movies...
Total Film
The large, well-characterized cast is ably headed by Walter Matthau, whose wonderfully weary sense of irony is perfect.
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Hollywood Reporter
... 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.
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Seanax.com
One of the decade's great defenses of New York
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CinePassion
A work of substance and an exciting experience.
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: 5/5 --
Surly humor powers the movie as much as the ticking-clock premise does.
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eFilmCritic.com
Product Description:
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE superbly achieves what few other movies do: a successful blend of thrills, style, comedy, drama, suspense and action. It is the precursor for many thrillers of the 1990s, from indie hits like Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS, and more popular, Hollywood vehicles like SPEED.
The story focuses on four criminals who hijack a subway car and demand one million dollars from the mayor of New York, threatening to kill one hostage per minute if their demands aren't met. The hijackers are Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw), the crafty and efficient leader; Mr. Green (Martin Balsam), the train driver; Mr. Gray (Hector Elizondo), the hothead; and Mr. Brown (Earl Hindman), a nervous, stuttering man. New York City transit lieutenant Zachary Garber (Walter Matthau) goes above and beyond his call of duty to play negotiator with the hijackers. The camera grabs the viewer by taking him down into dark gritty hallows of the subway tunnels and into the midst of the harrowing situation on the hijacked car. Based on the book by John
Godey, TAKING OF PELHAM is a true classic that depicts the dark, crime-ridden climate of 1970s New York city.
The story focuses on four criminals who hijack a subway car and demand one million dollars from the mayor of New York, threatening to kill one hostage per minute if their demands aren't met. The hijackers are Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw), the crafty and efficient leader; Mr. Green (Martin Balsam), the train driver; Mr. Gray (Hector Elizondo), the hothead; and Mr. Brown (Earl Hindman), a nervous, stuttering man. New York City transit lieutenant Zachary Garber (Walter Matthau) goes above and beyond his call of duty to play negotiator with the hijackers. The camera grabs the viewer by taking him down into dark gritty hallows of the subway tunnels and into the midst of the harrowing situation on the hijacked car. Based on the book by John
Godey, TAKING OF PELHAM is a true classic that depicts the dark, crime-ridden climate of 1970s New York city.
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