The Taking of Pelham 1. The Taking of Pelham 1. American thriller film directed by Tony Scott, and starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. It is a film adaptation of the novel by Morton Freedgood writing under the pseudonym John Godey, and is a remake of the original 1. TV film. Production began in March 2. June 1. 2, 2. 00. A man calling himself Ryder hijacks Pelham 1. New York City Subway 6 train that departed from Pelham Bay Park station at 1 2. Ryder is accompanied by three other heavily armed men Bashkin, Emri and former train operator Phil Ramos. They uncouple the front car from the rest of the train and take the passengers hostage. MTA employee Walter Garber is working the Rail Control Center as a train dispatcher and receives a ransom call from Ryder, who demands 1. Ryder warns that every minute past the deadline they force him to wait, he will execute a hostage. Bashkin kills a plainclothes Transit Police officer who approaches him after recognizing that something is amiss. He and Ramos then allow all the passengers not in the front car to be released except for the motorman. Garber reluctantly negotiates with Ryder and develops a rapport, while Ramos and Emri set up Internet access in the tunnel. Ryder uses his laptop to watch the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunge nearly 1,0. One of the passengers laptops also connects to the Internet, and the computers webcam is activated. Watch Silver Spoon Episode 1 English Dub on this page. Watch Online crime Movies HD Free with Subtitles Free Streaming crime Movies HD online Full Movies HD with Subtitles Free Streaming Online Movies HD streaming. From the Twitch Live Stage at New York Comic Con 2017, IMDb LIVE host Kevin Smith talks to Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada about the development of the. The webcam allows the people in the control center to observe Ryder and Ramos. Lieutenant Camonetti of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit enters the RCC to take over negotiations and Garber is ordered to leave the premises. The change infuriates Ryder, who shoots and kills the trains motorman in order to force Camonetti to bring Garber back. Garber blames Camonetti for the motormans death. Camonetti learns that Garber is being investigated for allegedly accepting a 3. Ryder also discovers the allegations through online news reports after Ramos told Ryder that Garber was a big shot at the MTA and should not be dispatching trains and forces Garber to confess by threatening to kill a passenger. Garber explains that he was offered the bribe while deciding between two companies for a train contract, but also tells Ryder that he used the money to pay for his childs college tuition and insists that he would have made the same decision without the financial offer. Ryder expresses his admiration for Garbers willingness to risk himself to save a stranger. Meanwhile, the Mayor agrees to deliver the ransom money to Ryder and orders the NYPD to deliver it. On the way to the delivery point, the police are involved in an accident and fail to get the money there in time. Garber attempts to bluff Ryder by telling him the money has been dropped off, unaware that Ryder has been monitoring events on his laptop and knows hes being lied to. An enraged Ryder threatens to execute one of the children hostages and the childs mother. Another hostage, a former soldier, sacrifices himself to save the mother and child and is killed. A short gunfight erupts after an NYPD ESU sniper is bitten by a rat and accidentally discharges his weapon, killing Ramos. Watch The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three Online IMDB' title='Watch The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three Online IMDB' />Based on clues that Garber receives during his conversations with Ryder, the NYPD discover that Ryders real name is Dennis Ford. He was a manager at a private equity firm before being sentenced to prison for investment fraud. Ford had agreed to a plea bargain for a three year sentence, but was instead sentenced to ten years by the judge. One of the Mayors aides mentions the extreme drop in the major stock indexes in response to the train hijacking, and the Mayor deduces that Ryder is actually attempting to manipulate the market via put options. Ryder demands that Garber himself deliver the ransom money, and Garber is given a pistol and flown to the terminal to make the drop. Ryder brings Garber aboard and orders him to operate the train to the next station, where he and the hijackers exit the train during a brief stop. Ryder then uses a device to rig the train to go on without them. Garber manages to separate himself from Ryder at a railway crossing and then follows him as he escapes to the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Ryder parts from Bashkin and Emri, who are later shot dead after being surrounded by police and provoking the NYPD to use deadly force on the two in an apparent suicide by cop. The train comes to a halt safely, and police learn that Ryder is no longer on board. Ryder hails a taxi while Garber follows him in a truck. Lo8xrCHb_1412000786.jpg' alt='Watch The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three Online IMDB' title='Watch The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three Online IMDB' />Ryder checks his laptop and finds that his scheme has amassed a 3. He leaves the cab on the Manhattan Bridge and takes the bridges pedestrian walkway but Garber catches up to him. Garber holds Ryder at gunpoint, and Ryder gives him a 1. In the final seconds of the countdown, Ryder pulls out his gun and forces Garber to shoot him. As he lies dying, Ryder tells Garber that he considers him a hero. Afterward, the mayor thanks Garber for saving the hostages and reassures him about his bribery charges. The film concludes with Garber walking into his home carrying a bag of groceries, including a half gallon of milk he promised his wife, Theresa, hed bring home earlier in the film. Denzel Washington as Walter Garber, the New York City Subway dispatcher, who is negotiating with the hijackers. The negotiator in the 1. Lt. Zachary Garber portrayed by Walter Matthau Edward James Olmos played Detective Anthony Piscotti, the negotiator in the 1. John Travolta as Ryder Dennis Ford, the leader of the hijackers. Instead of playing a mercenary, he plays a former Wall Street high roller named Dennis Ford, who blames the city of New York and the mayor for causing him to stay in prison for 1. Scott courted Travolta heavily for the actors first action role in years. Travolta earned 2. The role was originally portrayed by Robert Shaw in the 1. Vincent DOnofrio played Ryder in the 1. TV movie. In the first two movies, Ryder used the alias Mr. Blue. James Gandolfini as the Mayor of New York City, who is under heavy pressure to address the hostage crisis. The character was originally portrayed by Lee Wallace in the 1. Victor Gojcaj as Bashkin, the most aggressive of the hijackers. The character, originally named Joe Welcome, alias Mr. Grey, was portrayed by Hector Elizondo in the 1. Donnie Wahlberg played him in the 1. TV movie. John Turturro as Lt. Camonetti, a hostage negotiator with the NYPDs Emergency Service Unit. Luis Guzmn as Phil Ramos, one of the hijackers. The role, originally named Harold Longman, alias Mr. Green, was portrayed by Martin Balsam in the 1. Richard Schiff played him in the 1. Ramn Rodrguez as Delgado, an MTA train dispatcher. Robert Vataj as Emri, the stammering young gun who helps hijack the train under the command of Ryder. The character, originally named Steever, alias Mr. Brown, was portrayed by Earl Hindman in the 1. Gbenga Akinnagbe as Wallace, one of the hostages on the train. Alex Kaluzhsky as GeorgeGeo, one of the hostages on the train. Michael Rispoli as John Johnson, Garbers boss and head of the MTA NYC Transits Rail Control Center. John Benjamin Hickey as Deputy Mayor La. Salle. Jason Butler Harner as Mr. Thomas1. 0Frank Wood as Police Commissioner Sterman. Harry Hill`S Tv Burp Episodes. Aunjanue Ellis as Garbers Wife, Theresa. Brian Haley as Police Captain Hill. Adrian Martinez as Cabbie. DifferenceseditThe first drafts of the script faced the challenge of updating the novel with contemporary technology, including cell phones, GPS, laptops, thermal imaging, and a post 91. New York City. In December 2. David Koepp, who adapted the novel for Scott and Washington said 1. I wrote many drafts to try and put it in the present day and keep all the great execution that was there from the first one. Its thirty years later so you have to take certain things into account. Hopefully we came up with a clever way to move it to the present. Koepps drafts were meant to be essentially familiar to those who read the novel, preserving the great hero vs. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three TV Movie 1. Trivia. Shot in Torontos TTC subway system, mainly using the systems only abandoned station platform and two of a class of older cars being retired by the TTC. The two cars were shipped by road to the scrapyard the day after filming ended, still disguised as New York cars.