In honor of yesterday’s review, every question today will have some tie to The Taking of Pelham One Two Three:
1. Name four other movies with numbers in the title.
Solved by Ken (comment #2)
2. Name two other movies with scenes that take place on the New York City subway.
Solved by Ken (comment #3)
3. Quentin Tarantino “borrowed” the color-coded names of the criminals from this movie. From what other Walter Matthau movie did Tarantino “borrow”?
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #18).
4. Robert Shaw plays a former mercenary soldier. Name another movie featuring a former mercenary soldier.
Solved by Evn (comment #6)
5. The criminals all wear hats and mustaches. Name two other movies with disguised criminals.
Solved by Ken (comment #4)
6. Name two James Bond connections to The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
Hint: Both connections are explicitly mentioned in my review.
7. Pelham One Two Three is the name of a specific train. Name another movie with a train’s name in the title.
Solved by Melville (comment #1) (Sorry, Evn, 9 minutes is bogus.)
#7 – Buster Keaton’s The General
1. Five Easy Pieces, 1776, 1492:Conquest of Paradise, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ocean’s Eleven (1960)
#2 – The Warriors, Fame
#5 – Point Break, Dead Presidents
#7 – Murder on the Orient Express
#4 – Blood Diamond
Interestingly, so far only Evn has come up with a movie I actually had in mind (Murder on the Orient Express).
Were you thinking Blade for #2?
I had Serpico and Brother From Another Planet in mind.
I figured the obvious one for #2 was The French Connection.
Interestingly, so far only Evn has come up with a movie I actually had in mind (Murder on the Orient Express).
Which, of course, has Martin Balsam in common with ToP123.
#6: Robert Shaw is one of them (From Russia, with Love); don’t know the other offhand.
Sorry, Tom, no partial credit. 😛
I wind up here too late anyway!
I’ll take a wild guess at #3 and say Slaughter on Tenth Avenue just because the title seems right. That or The Bad News Bears….
LOL@Bad News Bears. I’m sorry, George, but your wild guesses are wrong.
Hints tomorrow.
I have this weird idea that #3 is The Odd Couple, but I don’t know why.
Cuz you’re weird, Evn. Not cuz you’re right.
Charley Varrick is the really obvious guess for #3, but I’m not sure what Tarantino ripped off from it.
Tom, that’s correct, but I’m surprised you don’t know. I thought that was one of those “movie buff” things that people know.
The quote “go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch” is from Charley Varrick; Tarantino uses it in Pulp Fiction. People quote it, not realizing the source.
I’ll have you know that I’m bohemian and eccentric.
Ah, okay. It’s been 25 years or so since I’ve seen Charley Varrick, so I didn’t have the dialogue memorized. 😉
Oh, well I saw Charley Varrick not long after seeing Pulp Fiction for the first time, so I remembered.
Evn, you’re the one who said “weird.” Duh.
Oh yeah. Huh.
I’m also forgetful.
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#6 – Robert Shaw in “From Russia with Love”, Julius Harris in “Live and Let Die”. Took me a while to figure him out…..