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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three Blu- ray"Gesundheit!"Reviewed by Michael Reuben, June 7, 2. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is 3.

The storyline is simplicity itself: Put armed men in charge of a subway. Little time was wasted on backstory, subplots or exploration of motive. The. effect becomes obvious when one compares the 2. Tony Scott- directed remake, where substantial screen time is devoted to such concerns, and the movie goes slack as a result. The. 1. 97. 4 original may not have Scott's whizz- bang camera moves or the saturated palette he's come. Thrillers work best when they're pared to their essence. On an ordinary day in Seventies Manhattan (which, at that time, was an urban eyesore on the.

IRT subway at different stations. They're identically. With few words. and precision timing, they seize control of a No. Pelham One Two Three".

Pelham Bay Park at 1: 2. In a device to which. Quentin Tarantino will later pay homage in Reservoir Dogs, the men use colors instead of names. Mr. Green (Martin Balsam); Mr. Grey (Hector Elizondo); Mr. Brown (Earl Hindman); and the.

Englishman known as Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw, just one year after. Lonnegan in The Sting and one year before creating Quint in Jaws).

At MTA headquarters, Zach Garber (Walter Matthau), a lieutenant in the Transit Authority. Japanese dignitaries on a tour of the facilities when. A subway train has been taken, and the men holding it want money, or they'll. At first no one can believe it. Even today, the notion of holding a subway. There are only so many ways to escape from an underground.

But Mr. Blue gives the city authorities such a short deadline - one hour - to assemble a. Historical note. A million dollars may not sound like much, but that was a different era. Subway fare has risen by.

The remainder of the film alternates between tense scenes of waiting below ground and frenetic. Various groups in the city have to coordinate their response, and they. On the front line are the TA police, personified by Lt. Garber. and his chief assistant, Lt. Rico Patrone (Jerry Stiller).

Then there are the regular city cops, led by. Inspector Daniels (Julius Harris) and a local borough commander on the scene (reliable character.

Kenneth Mc. Millan). The MTA's operational personnel are tearing their hair out trying to. Managers like Correll (Dick O'Neill) would just as soon. S. W. A. T. team storm Pelham One Two Three and shoot it out with the hostage takers, no.

Others, like Caz Dolowicz (Tom Pedi), are simply outraged at. Finally, of course, there's the mayor's office. Since the ransom is being paid from city coffers. In the original version of Pelham One Two Three, the mayor.

Tony Roberts) and his wife (Doris Roberts, with the unmistakable voice that would later. Everybody Loves Raymond).

An interesting note: The actor who portrays the mayor. Lee Wallace. Thirteen years later, Wallace would play the mayor of Gotham City in Tim. Burton's Batman, and New York audiences routinely laughed when he appeared on screen. Mayor Ed Koch. No one seemed to remember that Wallace. Koch was elected.

In this instance, life did imitate art. Both the hostage- takers' plan and the film's ultimate resolution are less complicated in this. Like Mr. Blue, the director, Joseph.

Sargent, doesn't leave the viewer excess time to get distracted or start considering alternate. Garber is our hero, but he's neither exceptional nor a man trying to make up for past.

He's a cop with a job to do, and he's good at it. Walter Matthau is remembered. Jack Lemmon, but the same. Oscar Madison also make him convincing as an. New York TA police lieutenant. And being Brooklyn born, Matthau fit right in.

Director Sargent perfected his craft filming episodic TV on shows like Gunsmoke, The Man from. U. N. C. L. E. and The Fugitive, and it shows in the directness and efficiency of the storytelling. At. the same time, you can almost feel Sargent enjoying the spaciousness of the wide Panavision. MTA control room, where he frequently has people arrayed. The characters may be using antique.

Evaluating the Blu- ray presentation of Pelham One Two Three presents a challenge, because. The region 1 DVD. Even those of us who saw the film in theaters can't rely on memories. Viewers who are allergic to anything grainy on Blu- ray won't like this disc.

Those who. appreciate efforts by colorists and compressionists to preserve the vintage look of the era in. The inherent softness and grain structure of the. This is a Seventies film, and it looks like one. Where the transfer is more likely to generate controversy, even among those who don't object to.

This transfer of Pelham One Two Three is considerably darker than. Black levels. are sufficiently strong, and detail is sufficiently well maintained, that one can always make out. In the. absence of an answer print or any input from an authoritative source such as the director or the.

Owen Roizman, whose credits include The French. Connection), it is impossible to say whether this darker version is more accurate than previous. I can only note that scenes set in full daylight or brightly lit interiors appear to have. The color palette is drab and muted, and a haze of brown grime seems to overlay everything. This. is not unusual for films of the period set in New York and is generally an accurate reflection of.

In addition to the reds and blues of police lights, the most vivid. Garber's yellow tie and loud plaid shirt. The Seventies were not a. Minor gate weave is evident during both the opening and closing titles, but it was not a. The source materials appear to be in very good condition. Ironically, the film that Tony Scott and Denzel Washington made after remaking Pelham One.

Two Three was closer to that film in spirit. In Unstoppable, the lead protagonist, like Zach.

Garber, was a professional doing his job who didn't have any sin for which he had to atone. Chris Pine's sidekick character did). And the enemy was as implacable and almost as. Robert Shaw's Mr. Blue, because it was a machine, set loose by human error. A lot of. competing constituencies hollered into cellphones, radios and TV cameras, arguing over how to. The situation was too.

If the remake of Pelham One Two Three had stuck to those principles, it would have been a. Instead, we got Travolta's "Ryder" talking, talking and talking until all the tension. Ryder would never have made it on Mr. Blue's team. Mr. Blue would. The Blu- ray of the original Pelham One Two Three is well worth your time. The only real. disappointment is the lack of extras.