Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Walter Matthau, Martin Balsam, Robert Shaw, Hector Elizondo
Corrected entry: Garber says that he comes from Brooklyn. The shot of him going home on the train is a 7 train which goes to Queens.
Corrected entry: In the scene where two motorcycles and a police car are driving the ransom uptown to the hijackers, they get into an accident. The car and one motorcycle are wrecked. In the next scene, the same two motorcycles speed off with the money.
Correction: There are THREE motorbikes, two ahead and one behind the cop car. One of the front ones wrecks.
Revealing mistake: When Mr. Green pulls out of 28th Street, we see him disengage the "Dead Man's Feature" (by pressing down on the throttle with his hand). However, he does not actually move the control lever to make the train move. In that position, the train is at "idle" and will not accelerate.
Lt. Rico Patrone: Even great men have to pee.
Trivia: New York Transit Authority has code words for trains going through subways, based on the departure station and time of departure. Pelham One Two Three means the train left Pelham Bay Park Station at 1:23 pm. Ever since the 1974 film was released, New York Transit authority has made a conscious decision to try very hard not to let subway trains leave Pelham Bay Park Station at 1:23 in the morning or afternoon.
Correction: This comment should be under the 2009 version of this movie.