The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Film full HD movie download free with screenpaly story, dialogue LYRICS and STAR Cast

In the New York City subway, four men carrying concealed submachine guns and wearing similar disguises board the same downtown (southbound) 6 train, Pelham 1-2-3, at different stations. The men, using the code names Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey and Mr. Brown, take 17 passengers and the rookie conductor hostage in the first car, uncouple it from the rest of the train, and drive it down the tunnel just south of the 28th Street station on Park Avenue South. One of the hostages is an undercover police officer.

Meanwhile, Zachary Garber, a curmudgeonly New York City Transit Authority police lieutenant, is leading officials from Tokyo on a tour of the subway command center when Pelham 1-2-3 inexplicably stops between stations and ignores radio calls. Then Mr. Blue, the leader of the hijackers, subsequently announces over the radio, "Your train has been taken." Blue demands $1 million ransom (2018 equivalent: $5 million) to be delivered precisely within one hour or he will kill one passenger for every minute that the ransom is late. Conversations between the hijackers reveal that Blue was a mercenary in Africa and Green was a motorman caught in a drug bust. There is also tension between Blue and Grey; Blue confides to Green that he does not trust Grey, who was thrown out of the Mafia. Blue believes Grey is "mad" and potentially trouble. Just then, the supervisor of Grand Central Tower, sent earlier to investigate the stalled train, is shot dead on approach by Grey.

Garber, his co-worker Lieutenant Rico Patrone, and other transit workers cooperate while speculating how the criminals intend to get away. Garber deduces that since one of the hijackers knows how to operate the train, he must be a disgruntled former transit employee. Garber also notices that Blue has a British accent, while Green sneezes periodically throughout the ordeal, to which Garber responds each time with a polite "Gesundheit."

The beleaguered Mayor, after some indecision, agrees to pay the ransom. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York prepares the money, which is transported uptown in a speeding police car that crashes well before it reaches the 28th Street station. As the deadline is reached, Garber bluffs Blue by telling him that the money has arrived at the station and just has to be walked down the tunnel to the train. Mr. Blue accepts this and doesn't kill any hostages. Minutes later, a police motorcycle arrives with the ransom and two patrolmen carry the money down the tunnel to the train. During the tense standoff, however, one of numerous police snipers hidden in the subway tunnel shoots at Brown, and the hijackers exchange gunfire with the police. In retaliation, Blue kills the train's conductor.

The money is finally delivered to the train and divided among the hijackers. Blue then gives Garber more instructions: restore power to the subway line, set the signals in the path of the train to green all the way to South Ferry, and clear all police from the stations along the route. Garber warns that it will take time to secure these demands, which Blue accepts. Before the process is complete, however, the hijackers move the train about ten blocks further south. When Garber becomes alarmed, Blue explains that he wanted to put distance between the subway car and the police still inside the tunnel.

The hijackers assemble a rig to override the dead-man's switch so that the train will run without a motorman at the controls. Garber leaves the command center to meet up with Inspector Daniels above ground where the train has stopped. When Patrone confirms to Blue that the route ahead is clear, the hijackers set the train in motion and get off. As the hijackers make their way to an emergency exit in the tunnel, the undercover officer jumps off the train and hides in the tunnel. Unaware that the hijackers are no longer on the train, Garber and Daniels drive above ground along the train's anticipated route. With no one at the controls, the train begins to gain speed.

The hijackers collect their disguises and weapons for disposal, but Grey refuses to give up his gun, resulting in a stand-off with Blue, who shoots him dead. While Blue and Green take Grey's share of the money, the undercover officer shoots and kills Brown. While Green escapes through the emergency exit onto the street, Blue exchanges fire with the officer until he wounds him.

Garber, contemplating Blue's last suspicious movement of the train, suddenly realizes that the hijackers must have found a way to defeat the deadman feature and are no longer onboard. Garber and Daniels race back uptown to the area above ground where the train had stopped. Garber enters the same emergency exit from street level and confronts Blue before he can finish off the undercover officer. Blue seemingly surrenders, and asks if New York still has the death penalty. When Garber tells him no, Blue commits suicide by placing his foot against the third rail.

Meanwhile the runaway subway car with the hostages hurtles through the southbound tunnel. When it enters the loop at South Ferry Station leading back uptown, its excessive speed triggers the automatic safeties built into the system. The car screeches to a halt, leaving the remaining hostages bruised but safe.

When Garber learns that none of the three dead hijackers was ever a transit employee, he concludes that the surviving hijacker must be the one. Working their way through a list of former motormen "discharged for cause," Garber and Patrone knock on the door of Harold Longman (Mr. Green) just as he is reveling in his share of the ransom money. After hastily hiding the money, Longman lets them in and then bluffs his way through their casual interrogation. As Garber and Patrone leave, Longman complains indignantly about being suspected. Garber apologizes and says they'll be back with a search warrant. As Garber begins to close the door behind them, Longman sneezes. Garber says "gesundheit" as the door shuts. Garber re-opens the door and gives Longman a caustic stare

The novel was published in February 1973 by Putnam, but Palomar Productions had secured the film rights and Dell had bought the paperback rights months earlier in September, 1972. The paperback rights sold for $450,000.

Novelist Godey (Morton Freedgood) was a "subway buff." The novel and the film came out during the so-called "Golden Age" of skyjacking in the United States, from 1968 through 1979. Additionally, New York City was edging toward a financial crisis, crime had risen citywide (as depicted in the contemporaneous film Death Wish, and the subway was perceived as neither safe nor reliable.

At first the Metropolitan Transportation Authority refused to cooperate with the filmmakers. Godey’s novel was more detailed about how the hijackers would accomplish their goal and recognized that the caper’s success did not rely solely on defeating the “deadman feature” in the motorman’s cab. Screenwriter Stone, however, made a fictional override mechanism the lynchpin of the script. Director Sargent explained, “We’re making a movie, not a handbook on subway hijacking...I must admit the seriousness of ‘Pelham’ never occurred to me until we got the initial TA reaction. They thought it potentially a stimulant—not to hardened professional criminals like the ones in our movie, but to kooks. Cold professionals can see the absurdities of the plot right off, but kooks don’t reason it out. That’s why they’re kooks. Yes, we gladly gave in about the ‘deadman feature.’ Any responsible filmmaker would if he stumbled onto something that could spread into a new form of madness.”

Sargent said, "It’s important that we don’t be too plausible. We’re counting on the film’s style and charm and comedy to say, subliminally at least, ‘Don’t take us too seriously.’” (The credits have a disclaimer that the Transit Authority did not give advice or information for use in the film.)

After eight weeks of negotiations, and through the influence of Mayor John Lindsay, the MTA relented, but required that the producers take out $20 million in insurance policies including special “kook coverage” in case the movie inspired a real-life hijacking. This was in addition to a $250,000 fee for use of the track, station, subway cars, and TA personnel.

The TA also insisted that no graffiti appear in the film. “New Yorkers are going to hoot when they see our spotless subway cars," Sargent said. "But the TA was adamant on that score. They said to show graffiti would be to glorify it. We argued that it was artistically expressive. But we got nowhere. They said the graffiti fad would be dead by the time the movie got out. I really doubt that.” (Mayor Lindsay declared the first war on graffiti in 1972 but it flourished until the mid-1980s.)

Other changes included beefing up Matthau's role. In the novel, Garber is the equivalent of the Patrone character in the film. “I like the piece,” Matthau said. “It moves swiftly and stays interesting right down to the wire. That’s the reason I wanted to do it. The TA inspector I play is really a supporting role—they built it up a bit when I expressed interest in it—but it’s still secondary.” In the novel, it is Inspector Daniels who confronts Mr. Blue in the tunnel during the climax. Additionally, screenwriter Peter Stone gave the hijackers their color code names and the Longman character his telltale cold.

Filming began on November 23, 1973 and was completed in late April, 1974. The budget was $3.8 million.

Filming locations

Production began with scenes inside the subway tunnel. These were filmed over the course of eight weeks on the local tracks of the IND Fulton Street Line at the abandoned Court Street station in Brooklyn. Closed to the public in 1946, it became a filming location and home to the New York Transit Museum. (Among other films, the Court Street station was used for The French Connection, Death Wish, and the 2009 remake of Pelham.)

The production company set up chess boards, card tables and ping pong tables along the Court Street platform for cast and crew recreation between set-ups. Robert Shaw apparently beat all comers in ping pong.

Although this was an abandoned spur of track, passing A and E trains rumbled through adjacent tracks on their regular schedules. Dialogue that was marred by the noise was later post-dubbed. The Third Rail, which carries 600 volts of direct current, was shut off and three protective bars were placed against the rail, but the cast and crew were told to treat it as if it were still live. “Those TA people…are super careful,” Sargent said. “They anticipate everything. By the fifth week we were dancing our way through those tunnels like nobody’s business. They were expecting that, too. That’s when they told us of the fatalities in the tunnels. They’re mostly old-timers. The young guys still have a healthy fear of the place.”

“There was one scene where Robert Shaw was to step on the third rail,” Sargent recalled. “When we were rehearsing the scene, Shaw accidentally stubbed his toe and the sparks from his special-effects boot flew everywhere. He turned white as a sheet. We had eight weeks of that. I think we got out just in time. It was like coal mining.”

According to a notation on imdb, the crew wore surgical masks during the tunnel scenes. Shaw's biographer, John French, reported: "There were rats everywhere and every time someone jumped from the train, or tripped over the lines, clouds of black dust rose into the air, making it impossible to shoot until it had settled."

Matthau, who had one scene in the tunnel, said, “There are bacteria down there that haven’t been discovered yet. And bugs. Big ugly bugs from the planet Uranus. They all settled in the New York subway tunnels. I saw one bug mug a guy. I wasn’t down there a long time—but long enough to develop the strangest cold I ever had. It stayed in my nose for five days, then went to my throat. Finally I woke up one morning with no vo