New York Crime Action Double Bill: Film Noir UK

New York is a city so important and so vibrant that they named it twice. For some New York is the city that never sleeps. But there are many New Yorks: New York becoming modern in the late 1920s and early 1930s; New York divisions on race and class; New York vibrancy; fantastic New York; and dark and noir New York.Many New Yorks: New York 1970s Crime Action Double Bill

The third in Bristol Ideas' series on cities on film after Paris and Berlin – looks at the greatest city in the world in these many ways by bringing together films from 95 years of cinema.

 12:00pm: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Director: Joseph Sargent 

Starring: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Héctor Elizondo 

15/ USA / 104mins