An exceptional, frightening film that will make you think twice about taking the subway too late at night.
Hoods Tony Musante and Martin Sheen terrorize a group of late night passengers on a NYC train. Everyone's true feelings and frustrations tear to the forefront as the hoodlums humiliate one person after another. There's sexy Donna Mills, angry Brock Peters and his silent wife Ruby Dee, henpecked Ed McMahon, middle-aged shrike Jan Sterling and her milquetoast husband Mike Kellin. Beau Bridges plays a young soldier who breaks from the pack and defends himself. Gary Merrill is startling...and startlingly cast as a repressed homosexual.
Musante and Sheen are dynamite...scary, tough and cowardly all at once. Musante may not have had a sustained film career, but he's great here. Sterling and Kellin make a wild couple, with Kellin giving the film's best performance. Jack Gilford and Thelma Ritter are in it too. Extremely well directed by Larry Peerce.
Hoods Tony Musante and Martin Sheen terrorize a group of late night passengers on a NYC train. Everyone's true feelings and frustrations tear to the forefront as the hoodlums humiliate one person after another. There's sexy Donna Mills, angry Brock Peters and his silent wife Ruby Dee, henpecked Ed McMahon, middle-aged shrike Jan Sterling and her milquetoast husband Mike Kellin. Beau Bridges plays a young soldier who breaks from the pack and defends himself. Gary Merrill is startling...and startlingly cast as a repressed homosexual.
Musante and Sheen are dynamite...scary, tough and cowardly all at once. Musante may not have had a sustained film career, but he's great here. Sterling and Kellin make a wild couple, with Kellin giving the film's best performance. Jack Gilford and Thelma Ritter are in it too. Extremely well directed by Larry Peerce.