{"id":16411,"date":"2024-05-02T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16411"},"modified":"2024-05-02T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:58:13","slug":"the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974-joseph-sargent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16411","title":{"rendered":"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting tone in this movie, a perfect-crime hijack-ransom plot pulled off by a crack criminal team, but instead of no-nonsense city police on the other side of the phone line we get a droll workplace drama starring Walter Matthau as lead transit cop, a sickly coward mayor (Lee Wallace, who&#8217;d also play the mayor in <em>Batman<\/em>), and timely jokes on camera-toting Japanese tourists and women in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Shaw (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4089\">Robin and Marian<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s sheriff) is the lead baddie, serious about his deadlines and their consequences, and on his team is the ex-train operator who knows the system, the loose cannon, and the guy without a strong personality.  The city scrambles to come up with the money, which it does in time to save almost all the hostages, then Matthau turns to preventing the color-coded criminals&#8217; escape.  One is killed by a cop, the other by his own men, and the leader third-rails himself to avoid capture.  They track the final guy (Martin Balsam, later of <em>Mitchell!<\/em>) by looking through the records of fired train operators, recognizing the sick criminal during an apartment interview by his sneeze, previously heard over the intercom, and I ask you, is this the final shot of a serious crime movie?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/pelham123.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting tone in this movie, a perfect-crime hijack-ransom plot pulled off by a crack criminal team, but instead of no-nonsense city police on the other side of the phone line we get a droll workplace drama starring Walter Matthau as lead transit cop, a sickly coward mayor (Lee Wallace, who&#8217;d also play the mayor in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,1663,361,294,1199],"class_list":["post-16411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-hijacking","tag-new-york","tag-trains","tag-walter-matthau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16459,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411\/revisions\/16459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}