{"id":176731,"date":"2020-04-02T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/02\/watching-what-might-be-the-best-police-procedural-movie-ever\/"},"modified":"2020-04-02T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:48:00","slug":"watching-what-might-be-the-best-police-procedural-movie-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/02\/watching-what-might-be-the-best-police-procedural-movie-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching What Might Be the Best Police Procedural Movie Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2m1RkbY.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2m1RkbY.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>The 1974 version of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Taking_of_Pelham_One_Two_Three_(1974_film)\">The Taking of Pelham One Two Three<\/a>, directed by Joseph Sargent, screenplay by Peter Stone, and starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, H\u00e9ctor Elizondo, Martin Balsam, and Jerry Stiller.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being an excellent cop movie, it&#8217;s also an excellent transit movie, and it has the most famous sneeze in cinema.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a glorious snap-shot of the culture and weirdness of New York City in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>It may be the most New York City movie ever.<\/p>\n<p>After I saw the movie, I read the book, and was not impressed, but this movie was genius.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 remakes that followed, not so much.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nDlEcFRZUYI?start=114\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1974 version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, directed by Joseph Sargent, screenplay by Peter Stone, and starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, H\u00e9ctor Elizondo, Martin Balsam, and Jerry Stiller. In addition to being an excellent cop movie, it&#8217;s also an excellent transit movie, and it has the most famous sneeze in cinema. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[497,385,496],"class_list":["post-176731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cinema","tag-media","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}