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The hijackers override the dead-man's switch so that the train will run without anyone at the controls. When Garber becomes alarmed, Blue explains that he wanted more distance from the police inside the tunnel. Before the process is complete, however, Green moves the train farther south. Blue orders Garber to restore power to the subway line, set the signals to green all the way to South Ferry, and clear the police from stations along the route. The money is delivered and divided among the hijackers. In retaliation, Blue kills the conductor. A police motorcycle arrives with the ransom, but as two patrolmen carry the money down the tunnel, one of many police snipers in the tunnel shoots at Brown, and the hijackers exchange gunfire with the police. As the deadline is reached, Garber bluffs Blue by telling him that the money has reached the station and just has to be walked down the tunnel to the train. The ransom is transported uptown in a speeding police car that crashes well before it reaches 28th Street. Just then, Grey shoots and kills a supervisor from Grand Central sent to investigate the stalled train. Garber surmises that one hijacker must be a former motorman since they were able to uncouple the head car and park it down the tunnel below 28th Street.Ĭonversations between the hijackers reveal that Blue is a former British Army Colonel and was a mercenary in Africa Green was a motorman caught in a drug bust and Blue does not trust Grey, who was ousted from the mafia for being too violent. Rico Patrone, and others cooperate while speculating about the hijackers' escape plan. Green sneezes periodically, to which Garber always responds, " Gesundheit". Brown, they take 18 people, including the conductor and an undercover police officer, hostage in the first car.Ĭommunicating over the radio with Zachary Garber, a New York City Transit Police lieutenant, Blue demands a $1 million ransom (more than $5.5 million adjusted for inflation in 2021 ) to be delivered exactly within one hour or he will kill one hostage for every minute it is late. In New York City, four men wearing similar disguises and carrying concealed weapons board the same downtown 6 train, Pelham 1-2-3, at different stations. It was remade in 1998 as a television film and was again remade in 2009 as a theatrical film. Musically, it features "one of the best and most inventive thriller scores of the 1970s". As in the novel, the film follows a group of criminals taking the passengers hostage inside a New York City Subway car for ransom. Several critics called it one of 1974's finest films, and it was a box office success.
The film received critical acclaim and holds a rating of 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews. Peter Stone adapted the screenplay from the 1973 novel of the same name written by Morton Freedgood under the pen name John Godey. Scherick, and starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, and Héctor Elizondo. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (also known as The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3) is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Joseph Sargent, produced by Gabriel Katzka and Edgar J.