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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Directed by
Joseph Sargent
R
1974
1h 44m
Action
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Crime
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7.6
98%
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Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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Cast of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Walter Matthau
Lt. Garber
Robert Shaw
Blue
Martin Balsam
Green
Hector Elizondo
Grey
Earl Hindman
Brown
James Broderick
Denny Doyle
Dick O'Neill
Correll
Lee Wallace
The Mayor
Tom Pedi
Caz Dolowicz
Beatrice Winde
Mrs. Jenkins
Jerry Stiller
Lt. Rico Patrone
Nathan George
Ptl. James
Rudy Bond
Police Commissioner
Kenneth McMillan
Borough Commander
Doris Roberts
Mayor's Wife
Julius Harris
Inspector Daniels
Cynthia Belgrave
The Maid
Anna Berger
The Mother
Gary Bolling
The Homosexual
Carol Cole
The Secretary
Alex Colon
The Delivery Boy
Joe Fields
The Salesman
Mari Gorman
The Hooker
Michael Gorrin
The Old Man
Thomas La Fleur
The Older Son
Maria Landa
The Spanish Woman
Louise Larabee
The Alcoholic
George Lee Miles
The Pimp
Carolyn Nelson
Coed #1
Eric O'Hanian
The Younger Son
Lucy Saroyan
Coed #2
William Snickowski
The Hippie
Barry Snyder
The W.A.S.P.
Walter Jones
Mr. Mattson
Jerry Holland
Bud Carmody
Robert Weil
Marino
Penny Krompier
T.A. Secretary
Christopher Murney
Dispatcher
Timothy Meyers
Plumber
Ruth Attaway
Mayor's Nurse
Thomas Barbour
T.A. Chairman
Marvin Silbersher
Comptroller
Neil Brooks Cunningham
Ptl. Miskowsky
Sal Viscuso
Ptl. O'Keefe
Tony Fasce
Ptl. Wentworth
Burtt Harris
Ptl. Ricci
Gene Gross
Muscat
Walter Lott
Executive On Train
Conrad Yama
Mr. Tomashita
Sho Onodera
Mr. Matsumoto
Tura Nakamura
Mr. Nakabashi
Toru Nagai
Mr. Yashimura
Rowena Rollins
Angry Woman
Joseph Attles
Angry Man
Willis Pinkett
Towerman
Michelle Matthow
T.A. Receptionist
Isabella Hoopes
Woman On Platform
Bill Cobbs
Man on Platform
Jim Pelham
Subway Guard
Joe Seneca
Police Sergeant
Gino Gennaro
Police Lieutenant
Carmine Foresta
Train Expediter
Tony Roberts
Warren LaSalle
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
The original version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three was made 35 years ago, yet it retains a quality of cool that will remain long after people have forgotten the current version.
New York Times
Nora Sayre
It's the only action picture I've seen this year that has a rousing plot.
Austin Chronicle
Jerry Renshaw
Stiller is terrific as a transit authority police lieutenant, as is Matthau as the rather sour cop who has to outsmart the bad guys.
The Hollywood Reporter
John H. Dorr
The large, well-characterized cast is ably headed by Walter Matthau, whose wonderfully weary sense of irony is perfect.
The New Yorker
Michael Sragow
Taps into viewers' paranoia over a decrepit, vulnerable infrastructure and then provides bitter laughs and a harrowing catharsis.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a good action caper about a subway car heist under the streets of Manhattan.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Superior exercise in urban paranoia; the superb location work of director Joseph Sargent goes a long way toward tempering the artificialities of the plot.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Darkened encounters with the ghost of Abe Beame don't come more giddily thrilling.
Seanax.com
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.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
A work of substance and an exciting experience.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
One of the decade's great defenses of New York
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
An archeological specimen from nearly two decades before the advent of the Metrocard
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Smart, tense, and funny, Joseph Sargent's thriller is a product of its times, reflecting New York in the 1970s and part of a cycle of urban paranoia movie, such as French Connection and Dog Day Afternoon.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
Surly humor powers the movie as much as the ticking-clock premise does.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
This is gritty, entertaining 1970s filmmaking at its finest.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...masterful...
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The movie must have been an editor's nightmare: the scenes are thudders, and the whole thing was punched together -- with no glue but the basic idea.
Nashville Scene
Joe Nolan
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three's title is as memorable as its unique hold-a-subway-car-hostage take on the heist film
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Filled with distinctive characters and crackling dialogue -- and always with another surprise up its sleeve.
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