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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX)
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780792843641
Feature: An all-star cast, including Oscar® winners* Walter Matthau and Martin Balsam, teams up with Robert Shaw (Jaws) to deliver sure-fire entertainment [that s] gripping and exciting from beginning to end (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the sizzling best seller by John Godey, this pulse-pounding picture is guaranteed to give you the ride of your life! Somewhere underground, in New York s subway
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792843649
Item Dimensions: 500
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: 908375
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 29, 2000
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
Features:- An all-star cast, including Oscar® winners* Walter Matthau and Martin Balsam, teams up with Robert Shaw (Jaws) to deliver sure-fire entertainment [that s] gripping and exciting from beginning to end (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the sizzling best seller by John Godey, this pulse-pounding picture is guaranteed to give you the ride of your life! Somewhere underground, in New York s subway
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE THE (DVD MOVIE)
Amazon.com essential video:
Dog Day Afternoon. Annie Hall. Taxi Driver. In the pantheon of classic New York films, these three take pride of place. But there are, of course, others, some of which have fallen through the cracks over the years, criminally overlooked and unjustly relegated to commercial-riddled Saturday-afternoon TV broadcasts. Joseph Sargent's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is just such a picture. This taut 1974 thriller about four armed men who highjack a New York City subway train and hold it and its passengers for ransom may be hopelessly dated (it's loaded with ethnic stereotypes, impossibly wide neckties, and bad hairdos--and there are no explosions!), but that's part of the fun. A gruffly sardonic Walter Matthau heads a fine cast that includes Jerry Stiller, Hector Elizondo, Martin Balsam, and a perfectly villainous pre-Jaws Robert Shaw. Think you'll find a better film that depicts a nearly broke city led by an inept mayor forced to deal with armed terrorists? Fuhgeddaboutit! --Steve Landau
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Great little movie. Poor DVD.
The story: New York subway car Pelham 123 is hijacked by four identically dressed and armed men lead by Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw). They hold seventeen hostages on the car and demand one million dollars within an hour or they will begin executing hostages. Lt. Garber (Walter Matthau) is the transit cop on duty who must handle the situation.
Though the idea of hijacking a subway is unique, it's still a rather basic hook. The excellence lies in the ... Read More
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Although the package is dated 2009, the disc appears to be a recycling of an out-of-date widescreen edition. If you ever wondered what anamorphic means, this is an excellent negative example. Being non-anamorphic, the widescreen image is compressed into a full-screen box. If you have a zoom function, and a projector, you can scale it up to a decent size, but with compensatory loss of definition. It seems shameful to print up a new package label without the small upgrade that would make this a decent ... Read More
Rating:  -
In fact after looking back, the original, with the exception of Robert Shaw, who was an excellent bad-guy -
the movie was really slow and boring. I am 59 year old and I was around for the original, and it is not a
classic, and if you call it a classic then please define what makes it a "Classic"! You can ask a half-dozen
people right not and the majority of them would not have even heard of the original Taking of Pelham 123.
The re-make of pelham 123 will blow the original ... Read More
Rating:  -
this is the original movie and considering the year of the film, this is a good movie
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I just bought this dvd off amazon, and was glad I did. I saw the re-make in the theater when it came out, and as always, it sparked my interest in the original, that I never knew existed! A great movie, there is enough action, suspense, and mystery to entertain you throughout. The dvd was well formatted and played well. A must have for the collector of great movies like charley varrick, and other classics from the 70's. A real enertaining story.
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