Tobias Schliessler and company hit the tracks running for Tony Scott’s frenetic “re-telling” of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.

In the exciting 1974 New York City-based thriller, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Robert Shaw and his gang of machine-gun wielding thugs hold a subway car for ransom as a leather-faced Walter Matthau, of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Police, races against time to resolve the dangerous standoff. Based on the novel by John Godey, directed by Joseph Sargent and shot by Owen Roizman, ASC, this gritty cat-and-mouse story created plenty of suspense, albeit confined for the most part to two claustrophobic locations: the MTA control room and the single train car.

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