{"id":2503,"date":"2025-03-08T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2025-03-08T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:13:00","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/retro-movie-adventures-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Matthau speaking into a microphone.\" class=\"wp-image-2504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Taking-of-Pelham-One-Two-Three-1.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Matthau and Jerry Stiller in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three\" class=\"wp-image-2505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Taking-of-Pelham-One-Two-Three-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Taking-of-Pelham-One-Two-Three-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Taking-of-Pelham-One-Two-Three-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Brief thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Remember when movies were allowed to have a guy like Walter Matthau be the star of the show? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As soon as the music starts you know you&#8217;re in for a good time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>H\u00e9ctor Elizondo? Did Garry Marshall direct this?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Features some classic 1974 racism, sexism, and homophobia!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I thought the mayor was a caricature of Ed Koch, but he didn&#8217;t become mayor of New York until 1978.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For today&#8217;s poster, I spent far too much time making the movie logo. Then I couldn&#8217;t find decent images of Matthau or Robert Shaw that would work for the central image. My &#8220;solution&#8221; makes it look like this stars Elizondo and Jerry Stiller, with a special appearance by Walter Matthau as the moon. Works for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three based on the poster for Bill &amp; Ted's Excellent Adventure.\" class=\"wp-image-2506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seriously, far too much time drawing the letters for this one. Also: I hope H\u00e9ctor Elizondo likes his new very long legs (even though he&#8217;s also missing a foot).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pretty great train robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}