![]() Moreover, Peerce makes a grim, yet provocative statement about how most people become passive victims when thrust into a dangerous crisis situation. Baehr, trenchantly uses the subway car as a microcosm of American society where all of man's worst fears and foibles come into play. Director Lary Peerce, working from a painfully incisive script by Nicholas E. The pernicious pair force the various passengers to face up to their true (often pathetic) natures. Martin Sheen and Tony Musante are both chillingly intense and believable as a couple of nasty no-count hoodlums who terrorize a motley assortment of folks on a New York City subway car late at night. Also it's very interesting to see Ed McMahon doing drama and this is the film debut of Sheen and Mills. All the acting is excellent which makes this film very hard to shake off. Each character is attacked (verbally and physically) during the course of the film-the attacks on the black couple and the gay man are so extreme and violent they're virtually unwatchable. Also the film is, sadly, still topical (although NY subways are nowhere near this bad nowadays). It is very unpleasant to watch and the realism may be too much for some people. This is a great movie and STILL unknown to this day. ![]() The "victims" are an unhappily married couple (Ed McMahon and Diana van de Vlis) a young couple (Edward Arnold and Donna Mills) an elderly couple (Jack Gilford and Thelma Ritter) two Army guys (Beau Bridges and Robert Bannard) ANOTHER unhappy couple (Mike Kellin and Jan Sterling) a gay man full of self-loathing (Robert Fields) a recovering alcoholic (Gary Merrill) and a black couple (Brock Peters and Ruby Dee). The first half introduces the characters.the second half is the attack. ![]() Two psychos (Martin Sheen and Tony Musante) terrorize the passengers of a NYC subway car.
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