South Ferry loop, its speed triggers the automatic safeties. It screeches to a halt, leaving the hostages bruised but safe. Since none of the three dead hijackers was a motorman, Garber surmises that the lone survivor must be. Working their way through a list of recently discharged motormen, Garber and Patrone knock on the door of Harold Longman (Green). After hastily hiding the loot, Longman lets them in, bluffs his way through their interrogation, and complains indignantly about being suspected. Garber vows to return with a search warrant. As Garber closes the apartment door behind him, Longman sneezes, and Garber reflexively says "Gesundheit", as he had over the radio. Garber re-opens the door and gives Longman a knowing, caustic stare. Cast Walter Matthau as Lieutenant Zack Garber Robert Shaw as Bernard Ryder / Mr. Blue Martin Balsam as Harold Longman / Mr. Green Héctor Elizondo as Giuseppe Benvenuto / Joe Welcome / Mr. Grey Earl Hindman as George Steever / Mr. Brown James Broderick as Denny Doyle, train motorman Dick O'Neill as Frank Correll Lee Wallace as Mayor Al Tom Pedi as Caz Dolowicz Beatrice Winde as Mrs. Jenkins Tony Roberts as Deputy mayor Warren LaSalle Doris Roberts as Jessie, Mayor Al's Wife Jerry Stiller as Lieutenant Rico Patrone Nathan George as Patrolman James Rudy Bond as Police commissioner Phil Kenneth McMillan as Borough commander Harry Julius Harris as Deputy chief inspector Daniels William Snickowski as The Hippie, an undercover police officer Jerry Holland as Bud Carmody, train conductor Thomas Barbour as T.A. Chairman Barney Marvin Silbersher as Comptroller Sid Alex Colon as The Delivery boy Christopher Murney as Dispatcher Robert Weil as Marino Sal Viscuso as Patrolman O’Keefe Burtt Harris as Patrolman Ricci Tony Fasce as Patrolman Wentworth Neil Brooks Cunningham as Patrolman Miskowsky Joe Seneca as Police sergeant Conrad Yama as Mr. Tomashita Sho Onodera as Mr. Matsumoto Toru Nagai as Mr. Yashimura Tura Nakamura as Mr. Nakabashi Bill Cobbs as Man on platform Dolph Sweet as Police captain Costello (voice) Production Godey's novel was published in February 1973 by Putnam, but Palomar Productions had secured the film rights, and Dell had bought the paperback rights months earlier in September 1972. The paperback rights sold for $450,000. Godey (Morton Freedgood) was a "subway buff". The novel and the film came out during the so-called "Golden Age" of skyjacking in the United States from 1968 through 1979. Additionally, New