Tram Accident

Nighthawks

All this coverage about the Roosevelt Island Tram and not one reporter mentioned Nighthawks. That was a really fun movie from the late 70s about this terrorist and his posse that terrorize NYC.

There is a really fun sequence where they take over the Tram and hold hostages for hours, I think they even kill some people and dump 'em in the river. There is another fun sequence filmed in Xenon I believe and "Brown Sugar" is playing. The filmmakers never got clearance though so on TV and most of the new versions it is playing some cheesey faux disco but you can still find copies with The Stones.

On another note, that term terrorist was so exotic back then. The only other movie I can think of that featured terrorists in the US was Black Sunday, another fierce drak movie. That was based on a book by Silence of the Lambs' Thomas Harris.