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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1974 DVD Release : 29 February, 2000 |
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Taking of Pelham One Two Three description Dog Day Afternoon. Annie Hall. Taxi Driver. In the pantheon of classic New York films, these three take pride of place. But there are, of course, others, some of which have fallen through the cracks over the years, criminally overlooked and unjustly relegated to commercial-riddled Saturday-afternoon TV broadcasts. Joseph Sargent's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is just such a picture. This taut 1974 thriller about four armed men who highjack a New York City subway train and hold it and its passengers for ransom may be hopelessly dated (it's loaded with ethnic stereotypes, impossibly wide neckties, and bad hairdos--and there are no explosions!), but that's part of the fun. A gruffly sardonic Walter Matthau heads a fine cast that includes Jerry Stiller, Hector Elizondo, Martin Balsam, and a perfectly villainous pre-Jaws Robert Shaw. Think you'll find a better film that depicts a nearly broke city led by an inept mayor forced to deal with armed terrorists? Fuhgeddaboutit! --Steve Landau |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Classic 70's Manhattan |
| Walt M. & co. take us on a retro-vision filled trip through 70's Manhattan with all the stereotypical "images" (pimps, Zen-hippies, middle-class housewives, transit workers, etc.), the omnipresent "New-Yawk" drawls, the "turf" wars between the transit cops and the transit operations people, etc. ...And this is merely the backdrop to a pretty good crime drama!
What we have is a well staged hostage movie, whose principal antagonist, Robert Shaw, portrays his menacing character with his usual aplomb. Walter Matthau plays the transit cop who is drafted into the job as the hostage negotiator/liaison man between City Hall and the bad guys. Sparks fly, the politicos scramble for ransom money, and the obligatory action scenes ensue in what proves to be entertaining fare. You'll also enjoy the supporting cast, which includes the Manhattan backdrop, subway system and all, as well as the individual actors. By the way, check out the cool ending! |
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