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Actors: Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Tony Roberts
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Taking of Pelham One Two Three |
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THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE is a movie directed by Joseph Sargent in 1974.
Four men, Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey and Mr. Brown, hijack a subway with its passengers and ask for a ransom of 1 million dollars to be paid in the next hour. The police officer Walter Matthau tries to gain time.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal kidnappers
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- frying (electrocuted)
- perforation--bullets
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
Is this movie based on a
- book
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