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Haven't you seen the 1974 version of The Taking of Pelham 123? Travelling south of 28th Street Station carries the risk of your subway train getting hijacked.
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Haven't you seen the 1974 version of The Taking of Pelham 123? Travelling south of 28th Street Station carries the risk of your subway train getting hijacked.
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Long Island Mike
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The Taking of Pelham 123...
Everyone: The 1974 version of the movie "The Taking of Pelham 123" was very well written and filmed but with some things missing-like graffiti-which was quite prevalent in that time period. The NYCTA co-operated well in the production of that movie.
The remake later-late 90s I presume?-was filmed in Toronto because of things like the favorable Canada-US Dollar exchange rate and the later lack of co-operation on the project by NYC Transit I recall reading.
For a NYC Subway action movie it was quite good-but the part I remember best is Walter Matthau-playing a NYC Transit Police detective-catching one of the hijackers later who had a sneezing problem-and how he would say
"Gesundheit" in reply-on a later visit to a suspect who sneezed in his presence upon leaving-the look on his face was just classic - he had found his man!
Another movie with a good 70s era sequence concerning NYC Transit was the elevated train chase scene in the movie "The French Connection" arguably one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. I recall seeing a show about the making of this movie and that chase scene was described-there is a part showing two trains colliding head-on that was actually filmed in REVERSE so when it was shown forward the collision impression was good.
These movies are 70s era classics-it's always good!
Opinion by Long Island Mike
Everyone: The 1974 version of the movie "The Taking of Pelham 123" was very well written and filmed but with some things missing-like graffiti-which was quite prevalent in that time period. The NYCTA co-operated well in the production of that movie.
The remake later-late 90s I presume?-was filmed in Toronto because of things like the favorable Canada-US Dollar exchange rate and the later lack of co-operation on the project by NYC Transit I recall reading.
For a NYC Subway action movie it was quite good-but the part I remember best is Walter Matthau-playing a NYC Transit Police detective-catching one of the hijackers later who had a sneezing problem-and how he would say
"Gesundheit" in reply-on a later visit to a suspect who sneezed in his presence upon leaving-the look on his face was just classic - he had found his man!
Another movie with a good 70s era sequence concerning NYC Transit was the elevated train chase scene in the movie "The French Connection" arguably one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. I recall seeing a show about the making of this movie and that chase scene was described-there is a part showing two trains colliding head-on that was actually filmed in REVERSE so when it was shown forward the collision impression was good.
These movies are 70s era classics-it's always good!
Opinion by Long Island Mike
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movies like the French Connection and Taxi Driver defined 1970's NY....
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Then there's stuff like "Saturday Night Fever"...
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lordmandeep
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One of my uncles went to NY in the 70's and said "it was like if NYC became like NJ"
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Gosh, I remember seeing Saturday Night Fever at the Uptown when it was released, with my friend William and the ancient ( well, he was 35 ... ) Australian who lusted after him.
Then we went out to the Manatee and danced the night away.
Then we went out to the Manatee and danced the night away.