Word: pelham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taking of Pelham...
Sissela Bok, former research fellow in Medical Ethics, sees The Taking of Pelham One Two Three four times and hijacks the Harvard-Radcliffe shuttlebus, demanding its collected fares. Told that the bus is free, Bok demands to be driven to Cuba. The driver lies and tells her there is not enough fuel, and she is captured attempting to parachute out the rear emergency door. "We can't all be Einstein," she shrugs, as she is led away...
Made into a movie, it would make a tidy triple bill with the currently showing Juggernaut and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. But for the residents of the Pacific Northwest, whose electricity and water supplies have been threatened since late September by a man calling himself J. Hawker, the plot was real and all too earnest (TIME, Nov. 4). The ordeal finally ended last week when David W. Heesch, 34, of Beaver Creek, Ore., admitted responsibility for a bizarre extortion scheme involving the bombing of eleven electrical transmission towers of the Bonneville Power Administration, a threat...
...TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE Directed by JOSEPH SARGENT Screenplay by PETER STONE...
That brand of political repartee provides the breeziest moments in a featherweight thriller called The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, based on John Godey's best-selling novel, which was obviously written expressly as film fodder. Screenwriter Peter Stone (Charade) has grafted some reflexively cynical New York City comedy onto Godey's book. Most of the characters in the movie quite rightly have a hard time taking the hijacking seriously...