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The following is from a Transit Museum brochure that came in the
mail today announcing the first annual New York Transit Museum
Subway Film Festival August 5 to 27.



(1974) Directed by Joseph Sargent. Screenplay by Walter Stone.
With Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam.
In the most famous of subway movies, disguised mastermind Robert Shaw and 
three cohorts hijack a southbound No. 6 train, holding its carful of 
cross-section-of-New-Yorkers for $1,000,000 ransom -- demanding that it
be delivered in one hour -- while a flu plagued Koch look-alike consults
spin doctors and practices damage control. Transit cop Walter Matthau --
in one of his most memorable performances -- negotiates via subway 
squawkbox. Filmed entirely on location with New York City Transit
cooperation, but only after the mayor was made not to resemble then
incumbent John Lindsay!

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However, in the end credits the TA issues a disclaimer.

So who is the Transit Museum telling the whole truth or is it 
consulting a spin doctor?

--Jason

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"World Still Nasty Place, Report Says" New York Newsday, Page A22 7/5/95
"Maybe there is a design to what we are doing." - NYC Mayor Rudi Giuliani
"I'm inclined to think its pretty darn good." - George Herbert Walker Bush
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Jason DeCesare | bp948@freenet.toronto.on.ca |  "Just the facts, ma'am."