Cheryl Herr requests: > I'm also gathering film titles that have to do with subways -- any genre, > any language. Any suggestions? Truffaut's THE LAST METRO Louis Malle's ZAZIE DANS LE METRO Luc Besson had a film just titled SUBWAY Anna Karina sings that wonderful song on the Metro in Godard's BAND OF OUTSIDERS THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 the film version of LeRoi Jones'/Amiri Baraka's DUTCHMAN SLIDING DOORS (referring to the London Underground) The ending of CROCODILE DUNDEE MIMIC--the monster film with Mia Sorvino set mostly in the NY subway system Vera-Ellen is "Miss Turnstiles" in ON THE TOWN Judy Garland and Robert Walker nearly lose each other on the subway in THE CLOCK The elegant subway cat-and-mouse game in THE FRENCH CONNECTION The lamentable TURK 182! involves a subway graffiti artist The abandonded subways of a post-apocalyptic New York in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK There are major scenes involving subways in such films as GHOST, DEATH WISH, DIVA, THE WIZ (the urban musical version of THE WIZARD OF OZ), Scorsese's AFTER HOURS, the film version of Doctorow's THE BOOK OF DANIEL (now titled just DANIEL), MODERN TIMES, PEPE LE MOKO Above ground, there's the famous subway grating scene with Marilyn Monroe from THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH You might also be interested in such things as the 1935 TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL and the final chase in the Channel Tunnel in the first MISSION IMPOSSIBLE film. Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html