Movies with the NYC subway

[Deaks]

How about Crocodile Dundee?

Crocodile Dundee 1 and 2 I think. At the end of the first one he is on the platform having decided to go 'walkabout' (!!) and the second one where he gets mistaken for Clint Eastwood.

 

Neither are as good as the 'that's not a knife' bit though.

[bigrene18]

and the second one where he gets mistaken for Clint Eastwood.

 

Yeah, I remember that scene.

[bigrene18]

Crocodile Dundee (1986) was filmed in the abandoned lower level of the BMT 9th Avenue (( at the time this movie came out, now the ) and station on the West End line. The station was disguised as the IND 59th St.-Columbus Circle station. The signs were correct but however, the double letter routes already had been dropped at the time the movie came out in September of 1986. The 70(AA) route had become the .

 

 

Crocodile Dundee II (1988) was filmed at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station on the and . The subway train (an R-38) operated on one of the unused outer tracks.

 

 

Coming to America (1988) - The IND Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street subway station was used for the scenes at Sutphin Blvd/Hillside Avenue (The one on the line).

 

The opening scene in Saturday Night Fever (1977) was filmed along the West End El line on 86th Street in Bensonhurst. The train shown in the opening credits was an R38 70( train. Another subway scene in the movie was on the BMT 4th Avenue line where we see the lead character ride an R30 70(RR) train, and we also see an 70(N) train of R46 cars passes by on the express tracks at the 53rd Street station.

[Lennyj17]

Both Money Train and Die Hard with Vengeance were soooooo fake NYC subway sets.