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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Crime | 104 minutes
3,64 389 votes

Genre: Crime / Drama

Duration: 104 minuten

Alternative titles: Pelham 1-2-3 / The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Country: United States

Directed by: Joseph Sargent

Stars: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam

IMDb score: 7,6 (38.109)

Releasedate: 2 October 1974

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three plot

"We are going to kill one passenger a minute until New York City pays us 1 million dollars."

Four gunmen take a New York subway hostage and demand $1 million to be delivered in 1 hour or the passengers will be killed. Lt. Zachary Garber of the New York City Transit Police must work with the mayor, the hijackers' demands, and the ticking clock to rescue the passengers and punish the hijackers.

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Insignificance

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Shit! piss! Fuck! It's clear that Scott wins on the visual, but Sargent is the boss on all other fronts. So much for the comparison, because that doesn't matter anyway. This may have gone down in the books as a crime thriller, but you won't get clammy hands from it anymore. Doesn't matter, I mainly see a hard comedy with a huge dose of fun and bravado that dominates it from start to finish.

Everyone is snapping at each other with big, poisonous and cynical mouths, Mr. Gray is an asshole through and through, the mayor is a fool who counts in votes instead of lives, and when Garber tries to save them, he has to face someone who cares about whether his trains are running on time. Even the hostages don't always behave like frightened weasels. That drunk bitch misses everything.

A lot of shitty comments that pass in review, that sometimes just get ignored, because Shaw is the coolest of the bunch and they only have an hour to take care of it. The outcome will not surprise anyone, although it still has a striking maneuver, but there is still some spectacle there. And a wonderfully wide grin. A grin I had throughout the entire movie.

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scorsese

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Excellent film in which a group of men take a subway train and its passengers hostage for ransom. A fine typical 70s action thriller that is still doing well 40 years later (also because of the era). An excellent build-up with enough tension, with room for some humor here and there. Walther Matthau does well in an atypical role for him.

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thunderball

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Watched this weekend.

This film was regularly shown on TV in the 1980s, but it had been years since I last saw it.

While the film may seem a little slow today, it hasn't lost much of its luster. It is mainly the script, with its build-up of tension and its captivating characters, that makes it interesting and exciting.

There is also quite a bit of humor in it, especially around the character played by Matthau (those Japanese! Haha!) and we lived in a time when luckily there was no talk of political correctness, so that every character in the film can enjoy themselves and seems to be able to say whatever comes to his mind without having to worry about getting some action group after him.

The strong point is that most of the time the villains are almost unrecognizable because of their disguise, while you still have two famous actors, Shaw and Balsam, who don't come to work for a pittance. Now compare that with the remake, where you can see Travolta without disguise after a few minutes. Times change.

The film has relatively little action, but what is in it is nail-bitingly exciting and portrayed at full speed.

A small, now somewhat forgotten, gem!

An eight or four stars.

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