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As long as we're on SF don't forget Dirty Harry.  The evil villain makes
him take a trolley ride through the tunnel to deliver the ransom money.

Jim Dornberger

ctrabs74@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> [Crossposted from phl.transportation -- hoping that there are some alert
> TV/Movie buffs in the Bay Area]
> 
> In article <35CCC758.C8496AC5@erols.com>,
>   rrgordon@erols.com wrote:
> 
> > > I don't remember the trolley polls but there is a Chuck Norris movie
> > > with a chase on the El followed by a chase and fight on the roof of the
> > > cars, ending with a jump in the river.
> >
> > Chuck Norris doesn't ring a bell, but you may be right...  The one I'mthnking
> > of features a 4-car train of green/white 6000s.  Lots of interior
> > and overhead shots.  Bad guy shooting good guy thru the ceiling of the
> > train.  Good guy almost falls off roof numerous times..   As for the trolley
> > polls, they weren't the Skokie-type "pan" type but actually two poles
> > with trolley shoes connected together like the Skokie pans were.
> 
> Speaking of shootouts on subway-surface trains, there's a scene from 48 Hours
> (the movie - not the sub-par CBS show) where Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy are
> chasing a suspect through the Muni tunnel in San Francisco.  Similar setting
> for a recent episode of the Don Johnson TV show "Nash Bridges".  I also saw a
> TV show from the 70's (can't recall which one -- I think Robert Urich might
> have been in it) where police are chasing a suspect into the BART tubes.
> 
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