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...Caesar and Myrna Loy can also be found in the vicinity.) It is to be wished that everyone in the film would go away - violently - and that catastrophe movies would molder with them. Unfortunately, they are not going to. In addition to such current examples as The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (see below) and Juggernaut (TIME, Oct. 21), Earthquake and The Towering Inferno will be unleashed in the next couple of months. Somehow, the knowledge that the genre is not yet played out makes Airport 1975 seem even worse...
...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...
Councilor Saundra Graham, who was a supporter of Pelham, requested a legal opinion on the authority of the City Manager to withdraw names from consideration by the Council...
Sullivan's move aroused speculation that the real reason for the removal of Pelham's name from consideration was a lack of the necessary five votes for approval...