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Pelham '74 Theme
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Def Con

5y↑84

This trailer/video is better than the whole 2009 remake!

Richard Tuppus

I haven’t even seen the remake and I know it’s better. I don’t have to see it and I know modern acting, lighting, everything about the modern stuff is crap! Not to mention there’s constant set detractors in the modern stuff. They thought of everything in the old days. Now it’s just too sloppy.

Mike Rubinate

3y↑2

2009 version sucked

Mordecai Esther

3y↑1

DEFCON : Fantastic comment LOL

Michael James

It’s better than the original movie tbh not to say it’s crap but it’s on the upper end of mediocre outclassed even by its own magnificent score, apart from the dynamic between Shaw and Matthau at his end... “Pity.”

Major Dolby's Cat

4y↑1

Still frames, jump cuts to the score, synchronized pacing, yes, I would say so. Fantastic.

Dennis Garelli

5y↑38

I operated , like most train operators, all the NYC lines. This music in the most uncanny way conveys the rhythms, the deep frequencies, the dangers, the sudden screams and the rushing unknowables of a 200 ton machine hurtling through the dark entrails of a city collapsing. What a musical triumph!

UBZUKKI

3y↑1

Born raised and still living in London England.
Never been to NewYork, but I'm guessing that your vivid description is making a lot of Old newyorkers very misty eyed for the city of that particular time...the mid 70's.

Paul Kelly

3y↑4

A lovely description !! :)))

terrance bigham

8y↑70

David Shire gave us one of the absolutely all-time greatest scores for an urban thriller EVER!

Steve Kirschenbaum

6y↑7

On Facebook, someone recently asked, " What film score would you like to be awakened to in the morning, as opposed to a regular alarm? ". Most people answered with typical mainstream scores. I said, " The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ". I've probably seen the film close to 50 times. I never get tired of it. I wouldn't give 10 seconds of my time to the remake.

Mr. Braddock

7y↑8

Yeah! It's kick ass. Thanks for creating this tribute zerokomma. Gesundheit!

zerokomma

8y↑6

Absolutely!

fodsaks

5y↑21

I truly wish they still made movies like this.

Joe Jordan

3y↑2

Different time different era much better back then

Ethan

6y↑18

Well done. Best film ever. They don't make them like this anymore.

Mordecai Esther

3y↑1

This is when New York was a REAL city , and all the great sites were still there . You had cash money .. phone booth ... real taxis .. no cameras of Big Brother

Edward De Castro

100% Agree its So New York !

ukkfayooyay

10y↑24

One of the best movie title themes EVER. Great movie too. The re-make doesn't hold a candle, especially the way they re-wrote it. In the original, the movie ends when Walter Matthau is on his way out of Martin Balsam's apartment after questioning him as a possible suspect. Just as Matthau is closing the door to leave, Balsam lets out a sneeze -- just as he did when he was talking over the subway car's radio to Matthau during the hostage crisis. The look Matthau gives Balsam when he re-opens the door is priceless and "makes" the whole movie. NONE of that was in the re-make.

Sean Lynch

6y↑1

I'm sure it's also lacking in 90's sitcom stars. I never bothered with the remake.

BrokenCurtain

10y↑3

Great to see I'm not the only one who remembers the look on Walter Matthau's face at the end. :)

The entire movie was full of things like this, each side character had its quirks and little oddities that made them stand out. I still love watching it everytime they show it on TV.

KutWrite

4y↑10

Well done... Should've ended with "Ah-CHOO!" "Gesundheit" and then Matthau's face.

Still, well done.

Dru Underwood

Bless you.

Eric J

5y↑8

There's not actually that much music in the film, but good god this theme music. Just about the heaviest ever.

raphael44ify

4y↑5

Despite the subject matter, the film was quite funny. I always remember: "What the hell did they expect for their lousy 35 cents - to live forever?" and: "One of my towermen dropped his wedding ring down the john." Later it transpires it was his female co-worker's ring. He asks her indignantly: "What were you doing with your hand down the john?" I could barely hear the TV where I was laughing so much.

Tyron Davis

8y↑22

1974 original movie is very cool. I saw the 2009 remake, it was just out of control and it was completely an ass. So the verdict is:Walter Martha and Robert Shaw version, arguably the best movie i'd ever watched. Thanks. ☆★☆★☆★

Brett Robinson

4y↑2

DAMN STRAIGHT! One the greatest dialogue rich movies EVER!!!

Tyron Davis

@Mike Owen okay I can take it into account. Check mate!

Mike Owen

5y↑1

Matthau and Shaw were excellent actors But so are Travolta and Washington..... But the original Pelham is far superior in my opinion 😛

blank1620

10y↑12

Saw this movie last night. I recognize just about every location shown in this film. I worked at or near Park Avenue South for two decades, and in downtown Manhattan when I got out of school in the early 1980s. I also commuted to work on the number 6 train, which is the Pelham line, so I recognized almost all of the subway stations as well. The place where the police car flipped is very near 4th and Broadway, where Tower Records was once located.

Warren Hoffman

Worked at 425 Park Ave South in the late 70's and had lunch at the Belmore Cafeteria many times. My son recently looked at an apartment on East 8th Street and we had a cup of coffee next to the "Cube" which you get a quick look at when the car flips - the street shown in the movie between Lafayette Street and 3rd Ave. sis now paved over with tables and chairs.

lmc2664

The good old days of NYC

Harold Goodfortune

11y↑3

If ever a music score fitted a location, this is it. Badassly brilliant.

DREAMHippo9

9y↑9

The soundtrack was a huge reason why the original was a success

Paolo Anselmi

4y↑2

RIP Jerry Stiller. This movie is a real masterpiece!!!

gtelm

13y↑2

One of my favorite films since seeing it back when it was first released, and one of my favorite film scores, back in the days when soundtrack albums were instrumentals. Excellent job on the edit, really captures the spirit of the film.

super blue

8y↑13

"The taking of Pelham 1,2,3,"(1974)

Is a classic crime film, it showed the gritty side of NY in 1974, with a all star cast...

Westrocker 67

13y↑1

this is the greatest score EVER! I remember my big sister taking me to see this when I was a kid and the score stood out just as much as the movie did. does anyone what else Mr. Shire did thats similar to this? I could listen to this all day! thank you for loving this and great job by the way!

Ultra Swank

14y↑1

One of my favorite all-time movies! Great composition and editing, makes me wanna see it now even though I watched it only some weeks ago :)

MonteCristo

11y↑1

Well Done Sir. Love the movie, love the soundtrack, love the video. Keep em coming!

fodsaks

8y↑4

Masterpiece.
That was really well put together.

zerokomma

8y↑1

thank you :)

IllageVideotTV

14y

I have to tell you I LOVE this video. When the remake came out I'd tell people about the original, however when describing it you really can't do it justice, so I'd direct people to your video and just let them see. you captured it perfectly!

VincentLoringer

13y

Amazing editing ! You actually made me to watch again this great and fun movie ! And the music is outstanding ! I can listen to it over and over ! Thanks and congratulations ! A real piece of gem !

lexo30

12y

Great video! If there's a cooler way to introduce a character than a freeze frame and a caption, I don't know it. Love this score, too. I transcribed the main theme a while ago - hellaciously difficult because it's a 12-tone row but the amazing thing is that Shire derives the entire score from that one row. It's like a mashup of Arnold Schoenberg, Neal Hefti and Curtis Mayfield.

Eklektik40

10y

Wow!! Loved the movie, the score and this montage is top-notch!!!
Great work!!

Jerome Moore

4y↑2

SUPERB presentation, with masterful and artistic edits. KUDOS! My lone criticism would be the omission of other key members of the cast.

zerokomma

Thank you :)

Paul Kelly

3y↑2

A cracking piece of editing!! Big smiles :))) Great track!!!

CurtisAmusements

Agree 100%. Absolutely great cutting. Check out the b&w freeze-frame, sync'd with Shire's score, when the cop's motorcycle flips... ( from 1:45 )

darren allison

10y↑2

Brilliant showcase for both the wonderful movie and David Shire's superb score (which btw was copied rather obviously) for the Mel Gibson film Payback ;-)

ICT VINNY

12y

one of my all time favorite movie and movie soundtrack.....funky as hell!....haven't seen the remake and don't plan to....AWESOME JOB, Zero.....

ShempDavidNiven

4y↑1

One of my favorite movies/scores since I saw it the week it opened.....from a time and place when Hollywood didn't try to bullshit you about how wonderful city life was. The remake looked okay (mostly cos nothing can make a NYC subway car not look grungy), but it was a BAD mistake to take all the humor out of the script.

That era was also a watershed for badass film scores; check out Jerry Goldsmith's ultrafunky theme for ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES for another example of the breed.

ZINCOVIX8754.

4y↑3

Stunning edit still after all these years.

Vassilis Koutsounakis

6y↑2

This is a masterpiece of rhythm editing...

Peter Mortimer

11y

I never tire of hearing this theme, especially the openeing bars. Thanks. I thought Robert Shaw's understated threatening character was better than John Travolta's screaming swearing effort.

Shteno

7y↑3

Awesome video man! One of the very best for a film from the 70's, for one of the best action films of the decade, and of course, the best ever score by David Shire!
RespeCAT & thanks for the upload! It goes straight to my favorites! ;) :)

zerokomma

7y↑2

you''re welcome brother, glad you liked it. Truly on if the greatest 70's thrillers, they dont make them like this anymore.

Richard Tuppus

Great soundtrack! I love it.

MacisteCorp

12y

Perfect editing indeeeed !!! Love the whole atmosphere, ya did uber-great job here !!! Thanks a lot !

Edward De Castro

3y↑1

I remember seeing this movie as a Child ..as This Score stayed in My Mind For ever ..!

Pepper Williams

3y↑1

I'm listening to David Shire's theme in 2021, because it is still serious sh**! I saw the original in 1974 when it came out. Playing in and out of the "changes"over an ostinato was so super hip. Or, should I use the vernacular of the day............."groovy" .

Mike Owen

You can feel the beat of the 70s orchestra pounding through the streets and the sirens wailing through New York City 😁😁😁😁😁

konorhalpin

4y↑1

Truly Great, compelling and authentic, no nonsense film making at its best.

MellowYellow6

12y

GREAT STUFF!! Love this movie and love your choices and timing here. Kudos.

Pete

5y↑1

Far and away the best version. Many great actors and New Yorker casting.

Digital Assets

10y↑1

Fantastic editing job! I would only suggest adding Jerry Stiller's name to the "starring" list as he is now, with 20 combined years on television in top-rated shows "Seinfeld" and"The King of Queens," the best know cast member besides Walter Matthau, and he has 10 times more lines than any of the "Brown," "Blue" "Grey" and "Green" quartet (Tarrantino's inspiration for the character nom de plumes in "Reservoir Dogs").

LOVE this film. Favorite line, when Robert Shaw looks a flamboyantly dressed black man up and down with disdain on the subway platform and he responds with,"What's the matter dude? Ain't you never seen a sunset before?" HA! As I have bright orange hair, I've used that line many, many times in my life!

funkmike

7y↑1

Very nicely put together montage here. An awesome score of a great movie.

ZINCO 8754X

7y↑1

Genius.You got the power of greyskull in your mind and hands sir.Wonderful timing.

Bret Gathercoal

13y

Finally... So Shire took the 12-tone theme and set a jazz chord progression to it, and that's where you get that really 70s-sounding romantic section before the opening bass ostinato returns to wrap up the cue. I used Shire's original matrix to reconstruct the entire cue in full score, and have had it performed. If there is interest, perhaps I'll mix the end cue to pages of the full score.

Martyn Brunt

I've watched compilation this about 50 times now and it's still brilliant. Great job sir.

zerokomma

thanks you brother. Glad you enjoyed it :) Appreciate your comment.

VHS Trailer Park

5y↑1

Great video! Awesome editing! Thank you! I love this movie and its soundtrack.

zerokomma

Τhank you Sir.

krelllabs

13y

Absolutely thrilling!

sinbad0910

14y

New and improved Zproducts! Looks absolute glorious, hard to know if it was just the crappy resolution on the old one but the editing looks even tighter on this. New subway maps look great, new titles and name cards all look fantastic. Wondered whether you'd pop a gesundheit in at the end! Tremendous! Never would ever have edited a thing were it not for this vid! Now you gotta do all the old ones! Killer Elite in HD yes!

HARRY HAGMAN

3y↑4

2:55 LOVE THE ENDING PART WITH THE MUSIC SCORE IN SYNC WITH THE RUNAWAY TRAIN STOPPING ON THE HORN NOTES

ranran19701

12y

Whoever played the drums on this recording should get an Oscar.

catman

12y

Wow. I'm really impressed. Great job!!

piscean60

9y↑1

Absolutely Brilliant!!!!!!!!!! Beautifully done, every movie trailer should look and sound like this!!!!!!!
Please do more from classic films of this genre!!!!!!

zerokomma

will do, thanks for your cool comments chief.

MEs61

5y↑1

Saw this movie as a kid. Loved it!

Al Cd

5y↑1

Excellent score complements this tough, first-rate film. The terrorists' demand is outrageous: deliver $1 million in just one hour! Been remade twice; this one's the best.

Andy McCavish

11y↑2

That is some damn good work there zerokomma, now its time to watch the film again I think.

Ross Sauce

14y

This is fuckin' amazing, man. Great work.

toscodav

7y↑1

Shaw had an amazing string of great movies in a very short period of time. Sting, Jaws, Pelham

MaSSa Power

7y↑1

Nothing beats the Original 70's Movies !! :)

VincentLoringer

13y

The quality improvement is great. Can't wait to watch your other videos. And honestly : you should get hired by Movie Majors to make real exciting trailers ! You know, trailers that make people want to watch the movies !

SpaghettiGringo

10y↑2

One of the best. Thanks for a great video.

zerokomma

10y↑1

yer welcome mate. Thank you

Alison Martino

12y

This is the greatest thing on youtube!

Jane Sellman

13y

I don't remember this being in color. Thanks for posting. One of the best suspense/cop films ever.

Polar Jet

3y↑4

Honestly to me the 2009 version doesn’t exist, it’s only the 1974

Frog Life

The music had such swagger. Golden age of soundtracks.

dlamiss

10y↑3

a superb score one of the very best thanks for the upload

zerokomma

10y

you are welcome

Baron Vonkershaw

11y↑1

Pure genius

Rayoscope

7y↑16

0:12 - sick beat.

Alexander George

5y↑1

One word : Classic!

TK42138

9y↑7

Love your edited soundtrack videos.

zerokomma

9y↑1

thanks mate :)

Tom C

14y

Based on your video I think the opening credits of the film should have been from the point of view of a speeding train. Good stuff.

hardlines4

Great tune and music

yaggy9

10y↑4

Nice work on the video. Came to hear the music, stayed to watch the show.

TripodOfFury

14y

Quality, through & through! Original film far better than the remake. Music is just too cool. Great editing of the video. "You;re a sick man, Rico!"

ranran19701

10y↑2

This darned drummer is great.

Bret Gathercoal

13y

@hyperdog67 As Shire tells it in "On The Track: A Contemporary Guide to Film Scoring," by Fred Karlin, this was the one and only time he sat down and made one of those 48-row serial (12-tone) matrices, and he uses two of those rows in his score for "Pelham." He never did it again, but the use of 12-tone techniques was quite popular in the 60s.

Trainluvr

10y

Like my favorite movie, and you captured it perfectly.

zerokomma

10y

thanks bud..one of my faves too. Brilliant film

filmmusicstudio

14y

Superb re-edit George - crystal clear full ratio with added dialogue to contrast with the action and beefy brass score. Numero Uno.

Alexander Tsantes

Greatest thing I've ever seen!

zerokomma

thefuzzgroove

une de mes musiques de films cultes !

William Mckenna

Recently watched this again after me and my dad (sinbad) had been wanting to watch it again for a while amazing edit .
My opinion the 2009 remake there was no need for it

David Miraglia

14y

brings back the grit and the color of growing during that time. Good old memories

Pedro Gonzalez

12y

boy, that's the groove!

Venom the god

6y↑1

That's a R21or R22 they used in this movie. I rode them back and forth the summer of 1987. The graffiti on them was brilliant. My favorite was the Dero and Wane with the Sphinx on the doors. They did not GOH these, they scrapped them.The last one I saw in revenue service was parked at 149 street (with the Kaze Hims piece on it). One car exists as a money train car in the Transit Museum (if the car is still there).

zerokomma

12y

Thanks mate...critique noted. Kudos for your cool eye for detail with them bill notes. Damn right with the spoilers but the end seemed quite right in a rhythmical sense while editing. Again cheers for your cool comments. Appreciated.

Macready75

10y

Awesome job.. makes me want to the film again. .. oh and buy the soundtrack. cheers

ivyblue1664

6y↑1

The dirty, unrenovated, crumbling, cynical New York that I loved. Mean Streets, French Connection, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver and Pelham. They all captured it for posterity. Does that mean anything if you didn't live through those times?

Nice mix, captures the essence of the movie.

Nathan Weaver

13y

I think you should do one of these videos for "Point Blank" with Lee Marvin set to "Seven Nation Army" by White Stripes. I know you usually focus on the original score, but White Stripes with Lee Marvin in "Point Blank" would be fantastic me thinks. Whatever you do, you seem to always deliver, period.

zerokomma

12y↑2

Again thank you...glad you enjoyed it.

Alexandra Gould

10y

You made a great job ! Thank you

zerokomma

10y

Thank you :) Glad you enjoyed it.

corinthian129

Makes me want to rewatch this movie... makes it look even better than I remember it. Thanks for the video.

zerokomma

youre welcome :)

zerokomma

14y

@megagalee ...thanks for the comment bud.....glad u enjoy the edit. Thought a lot of times on a Dirty Harry vid, haven't got the right angle of approach yet. End credits have a little more grit in the execution than the main titles, both superb though. One of the greatest scores ever written.

Viktor Dtz

10y

Great movie, great theme. And very nice "trailer". Good Job thanks.

The remake was a shame: overstatment in all effects or situations. First rule: "less is better than more".

frodis lover

9y↑1

Whoever you are. You are a genius this is fuxn brilliant work!!!

zerokomma

thanks man, appreciated :)

Tenderfoot Prepper

8y↑2

OMG, this is awesome. But why isn't Jerry Stiller in the "credits" with the others?

John Greene

10y

Excellent work!!

zerokomma

10y

thanks chief!

jazzsoul60

6y↑1

Pretty much typical of the best film making of the mid 1970s.

4snowdog

7y↑1

Great job on editing this soundtrack! This is better than 2009 by far

zerokomma

7y↑1

Thank you chief! Appreciated.

zerokomma

12y

@aznsketcher thanks bud...one of my all time faves too. Splendid film

kevinsmellls

13y

This was really cool. It really nails the tone of the movie.

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