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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
(aka
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
) is a 1974 American
thriller film
directed by
Joseph Sargent
, produced by
Edgar J. Scherick
, and starring
Walter Matthau
,
Robert Shaw
,
Martin Balsam
and
Héctor Elizondo
.
Peter Stone
adapted the screenplay from the 1973
novel of the same name
, written by
Morton Freedgood
(under the pen name John Godey) about a group of criminals taking the passengers
hostage
of a busy
New York City Subway
car for ransom. Musically, it features "one of the best and most inventive thriller scores of the 1970s". It was
remade in 1998 as a television movie
and was again
remade in 2009 as a film
.
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