Tuesday Trivia: All Pelham, All the time

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.)

26 comments

  1. Melville says:

    #7 – Buster Keaton’s The General

  2. Ken says:

    1. Five Easy Pieces, 1776, 1492:Conquest of Paradise, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ocean’s Eleven (1960)

  3. Ken says:

    #2 – The Warriors, Fame

  4. Ken says:

    #5 – Point Break, Dead Presidents

  5. Evn says:

    #7 – Murder on the Orient Express

  6. Evn says:

    #4 – Blood Diamond

  7. deblipp says:

    Interestingly, so far only Evn has come up with a movie I actually had in mind (Murder on the Orient Express).

  8. Evn says:

    Were you thinking Blade for #2?

  9. deblipp says:

    I had Serpico and Brother From Another Planet in mind.

  10. Melville says:

    I figured the obvious one for #2 was The French Connection.

  11. TehipiteTom says:

    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.

  12. TehipiteTom says:

    #6: Robert Shaw is one of them (From Russia, with Love); don’t know the other offhand.

  13. deblipp says:

    Sorry, Tom, no partial credit. 😛

  14. George says:

    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….

  15. deblipp says:

    LOL@Bad News Bears. I’m sorry, George, but your wild guesses are wrong.

    Hints tomorrow.

  16. Evn says:

    I have this weird idea that #3 is The Odd Couple, but I don’t know why.

  17. deblipp says:

    Cuz you’re weird, Evn. Not cuz you’re right.

  18. TehipiteTom says:

    Charley Varrick is the really obvious guess for #3, but I’m not sure what Tarantino ripped off from it.

  19. deblipp says:

    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.

  20. Evn says:

    I’ll have you know that I’m bohemian and eccentric.

  21. TehipiteTom says:

    Ah, okay. It’s been 25 years or so since I’ve seen Charley Varrick, so I didn’t have the dialogue memorized. 😉

  22. deblipp says:

    Oh, well I saw Charley Varrick not long after seeing Pulp Fiction for the first time, so I remembered.

  23. deblipp says:

    Evn, you’re the one who said “weird.” Duh.

  24. Evn says:

    Oh yeah. Huh.

    I’m also forgetful.

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  26. Ken says:

    #6 – Robert Shaw in “From Russia with Love”, Julius Harris in “Live and Let Die”. Took me a while to figure him out…..