Stop the deadly journey of the subway 123

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Movie
German title Stop the deadly journey of the 1-2-3 subway
Original title The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Country of production United States
original language English
Spanish
Publishing year 1974
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Joseph Sargent
script Peter Stone
production Gabriel Katzka
Edgar J. Scherick / United Artists
music David Shire
camera Enrique Bravo
Owen Roizman
cut Gerald B. Greenberg
Robert Q. Lovett
occupation
synchronization

Stop the death ride of the subway 1-2-3 (original title: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ) is a crime film thriller from 1974. It is based on the novel Departure Pelham 1:23 pm (same original title) by John Godey . In his role as head of security for the New York subway, Walter Matthau confronts a group of four hostage-takers.

action

Early one afternoon a train of the New York subway kidnapped by four gangsters. Since the departure time from the terminus at Pelham Bay Park (located in the Bronx ) was at 1:23 pm, the train is known as the "Pelham 123", a procedure common in the New York subway at the time. The four are dressed and masked alike and have given themselves aliases by color. The leader and organizer of the kidnapping is the former mercenary Ryder, alias Mr. Blue . The claim is one million dollars. If the amount of money does not reach the gangsters in an hour, a hostage would be shot for every minute that is exceeded.

The negotiating partner is Lieutenant Zachary Garber of the New York City Subway Police. Before the kidnappers and the subway police took over the ransom, however, the Grand Central dispatcher , Caz Dolowicz, who wanted to board the hijacked train, was shot by the kidnapper, Mr. Gray . The patrolman James, who is watching the incident, gets into a tricky situation over time, as the train with the kidnappers is in front of him and snipers are in position behind him.

Meanwhile, Warren LaSalle, spokesman for the mayor of New York, tries to persuade him to pay the ransom. However, the mayor is in bed with a cold and is more interested in the television program than in paying the million dollars from the city's already sluggish treasury. Only when his wife points out that by paying the ransom he will win another 18 votes (those of the hostages on the train) in the upcoming mayoral election does he release the money.

With a lot of luck and despite an accident on the way, the money will be brought to the hijacked train. After the police have withdrawn from the train as requested, the gangsters drive near a tunnel exit , get out and start the train again without a subway driver. To do this, they outsmart the dead man's brake with the help of a lever device , a safety precaution that prevents a train from moving if the driver does not operate a lever and press a pedal at the same time. The police are ready to follow the route of the subway, not knowing that the kidnappers are no longer on the train. The train races through the tunnels at extremely high speeds until it is automatically stopped at a curve by an emergency stop. One of the passengers (a plainclothes policeman) noticed when the train was approaching that the gangsters were no longer on board and jumped off the train. Since he doesn't want to part with his submachine gun, Mr. Gray is shot by Mr. Blue , who considers this behavior to be a great risk of being discovered. Mr. Blue takes Mr. Gray's share of $ 250,000 . Next, the plainclothes officer shoots Mr. Brown from behind . Garber, who has an inspiration, gets into the tunnel in time before Mr. Blue can shoot the plainclothes policeman.

Mr. Blue evades arrest by suicide by touching the power rail with one foot . Together with Lt. Rico Patrone sets out to Garber to find the last of the gangsters, Mr. Green , who was the only one who managed to escape from the tunnel. Since Mr. Green was driving the train during the action, Garber correctly suspects that he must be a trained underground train driver . All ex-metro drivers who have been dismissed as criminals are checked. Mr. Green , who was noticed during the kidnapping by his sneezing cold, reveals himself during questioning in his apartment in the last seconds of the film by his sneezing.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Lt. Zachary "Zach" Garber Walter Matthau Wolfgang Lukschy
Mr. Blue - Bernard Ryder Robert Shaw Heinz Petruo
Mr. Green - Harold Longman Martin Balsam Wolf Ackva
Mr. Gray - Joe Welcome Hector Elizondo Norbert Gastell
Mr. Brown - George Steever Earl Hindman Alexander Allerson
Lt. Rico cartridge Jerry Stiller Thomas Bride
Patrolman James Nathan George Horst Sachtleben
Dave Doyle, platoon leader James Broderick Hartmut Neugebauer
Frank Correll Dick O'Neill Gerd Duwner
Caz Dolowicz Tom Pedi Gernot Duda
Inspector Daniels Julius Harris Herbert Weicker

background

  • A disused subway shaft in New York was used for filming.
  • The train name Pelham 123 refers to the method used by the New York subway control centers to assign trains: Pelham denotes the departure station and 123 stands for the departure time 1:23 a.m. The station is called Pelham Bay Park and is the terminus of underground line 6 , which is also known as the Pelham Line . It's in the Bronx .
  • In his music for the Mel Gibson thriller Payback - Payday (1999), Chris Boardman copied the essential stylistic features of David Shire's aggressively jazzy score.
  • The scene in the first part of the film in which Lt. Rico Patrone ( Jerry Stiller ) is introduced to the Tokyo subway managers and appears in the final episode of the eighth season of the US sitcom King of Queens , in which Doug Heffernan (played by Kevin James ) discovers his father-in-law Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller) previously worked as an actor.
  • Two former James Bond villains star in the film. On the one hand Robert Shaw , who played alongside Sean Connery in James Bond 007 - Greetings from Moscow, and on the other hand Julius Harris , who played TeeHee in Live and Let Die alongside Roger Moore .
  • The actors Dick O'Neill and Earl Hindman are in turn often in the handicraft and home improvement comedy series Listen, Who's Hammering to see - O'Neill as the former teacher, and Hindman as the mysterious neighbor (Wilson Wilson) of the main character (Tim Taylor).
  • The criminal gang gives itself cover names according to color ( Mr. Blue, Mr. Green etc.). This approach influenced Quentin Tarantino's script of Reservoir Dogs , where the gangsters do the same.

Reviews

“Walter Matthau, then one of Hollywood's most popular stars and most recently seen in the cinema as Albert Einstein in ' IQ ', wanted to break away from his image as a comedian through roles like this. Nevertheless, in addition to breathless tension, there is also humor here. However, it is as black as an unlit subway shaft. In addition to a true-to-original replica of the command center of the New York subway, cameraman Owen Roizman had access to the Brooklyn station, which he descended into in 1971 for ' Brennpunkt Brooklyn ' ('French Connection'). Conclusion: terror in the wagon, tension on the television. "

- Cinema

“Overall, Joseph Sargent does not focus on the action, but rather on the psychological aspects and the course of the kidnapping, which the director, who is otherwise busy on TV, uses as a template for an extremely tight staging. 'Stop the Death Ride of the U-Bahn 1 2 3' is more of a heist movie than an action thriller, but it still exudes the paranoia of the catastrophic genre of the 70s from every pore. [...] Conclusion: 'Stop the journey of death of the underground 1 2 3' is an atmospheric genre piece that has earned its good reputation despite small deficits thanks to a grandiose final scene. "

- movie starts

"Technically solid and well-cast action film with occasional touches of self-irony."

- Lexicon of international film

Remakes

literature

  • John Godey : Departure Pelham 1:00 am 23rd novel (Original title: The taking of Pelham one two three ). (2nd edition, 19th - 23rd thousand.) Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1976, 204 pages, ISBN 3-499-11899-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stop the deadly journey of the U-Bahn 123 in the German synchronous file; Retrieved November 1, 2010
  2. ↑ article in the Telegraph (Engl.) ( Memento of 2 August 2009 at the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Cinema.de: film review
  4. ^ Filmstarts.de: film review
  5. ↑ Stop the death ride of the subway 123. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5308698M/The_taking_of_Pelham_one_two_three

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