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.
Continuity mistake: Right after the train is hijacked by Robert Shaw at 28th Street station, there are 2 additional hostages in the front car (for a total of 19) that disappear after the train is hijacked between 23rd Street and 28th Street.
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.
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Correction: This comment should be under the 2009 version of this movie.