The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
A group of criminals
are taking hostage for ransom the passengers of a busy New York City subway
car.
Starring Walter Matthau,
Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, and Hector
Elizondo The Taking of Pelham One Two
Three is an iconic film of the 1970’s. A good suspense and an influential
movie for Quentin Tarantino with the naming of the criminals by colors (see Reservoir Dogs) and a huge influence on action
films to come along with John Carpenter’s The
Assault of Precinct 13. Not the actual film canon that is praised a lot
habitually by this critic, but it is deserves its mention here.
