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[[File:taking_of_pelham_one_two_three.jpg|frame|Thank you for choosing the [[New York Subway]].]]▼
Although this page is allegedly for the 1974 film, an attempt has been made to cram both the 1998 and 2009 remakes into it. All three films should have separate pages with appropriate renames, while this page name should be turned into a [[All The Tropes:Creating Disambiguation Pages|disambiguation page]] between them.
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'''Rico:''' You know me, I'll believe anything.
'''Garber:''' The train's been hijacked.
'''Rico:''' I don't believe it. }}
A 1974 [[Heist Film]], starring Walter Matthau as Lieutenant Garber and Robert Shaw as (leader of the hijackers) Mr. Blue.
Remade in 1998 (starring [[Miami Vice|Edward]] [[Stand and Deliver|James]] [[Battlestar Galactica
The 2009 version of ''The Taking of Pelham 123'' splits the Walther Matthau character of Walter Garber into two persons (Denzel Washington as MTA Dispatcher Walter Garber, and John Turturro as NYPD Hostage Negotiator Detective Camonetti). Both have an ordinary day thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train that is in Garber's charge.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Ryder in the remake.
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: A trained NYPD sniper shows exceedingly poor trigger discipline by resting his finger on the trigger while awaiting the order to take the shot. {{spoiler|See [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]] below.}}
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* [[Bilingual Backfire]]: The protagonist cop in the 1974 film version is showing a group of Japanese transit officers around the control room, and making numerous [[Noble Bigot with a Badge|racist comments]] because he thinks they can't understand a word he's saying, culminating in "Okay, get these yellow monkeys out of here!" They all shake his hand and thank him politely in fluent English as they leave, to his evident chagrin.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In the original the unpopular Mayor doesn't want to visit the scene of the hijacking because he'll be booed. Later in the film he does show up (offscreen)--and:
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The sneeze.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: (Remake) Ryder, so very, very much, to the point where one could mistake him for having motherfuckin' Tourette's.
** The original had quite a high quotient of expletives for a mainstream 1974 release. One character even says "How the hell can you run a goddamn railroad without swearing?!"
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Almost everyone in the original. Even the hostages get in on it.
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'''Mr. Blue''': Why is that of interest to you, sir?
'''Old Man''': Well, a person likes to know his worth.
'''Mr. Blue''': One million dollars.
'''Old Man''': That's not so terrific. }}
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: A train board controller early in the film walks through an unlocked gate into the tunnels. After all, "Who's gonna steal a train?"
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* [[The Everyman]]: Garber.
* [[Evil Brit]]: Robert Shaw in the original, prompting the line:
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* [[Failsafe Failure]]: The [[wikipedia:Dead-manchr(27)s switch|Dead Man's Switch]] in the subway cars are defeated quite ingeniously.
* [[The Film of the Book]]: The original and both remakes.
* [[Fun with Foreign Languages]]: Garber in the original is told to look after a group of Tokyo subway executives who follow him around obediently without speaking. He quickly gets sick of playing tour guide and, assuming they don't speak any English, begins insulting them at random points in his descriptions of things. When the hostage situation occurs, they say goodbye in flawless English and leave.
* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: One of the hostages in the original is a drunken woman who remains sound asleep and oblivious to what's going on until the end.
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* [[Hired Guns]]: Mr. Blue in the original is an out of work British mercenary.
* [[Hostage Situation]]: Played with, hostages are used as "commodities" and traded over to the police for one million dollars.
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