Subway Riders (1981)

Directors

Amos Poe

Cast

Amos Poe, Charlene Kaleina, Cookie Mueller, John Lurie, Robbie Coltrane, Susan Tyrrell, William "Bill" Rice

The story

Shot on location in hauntingly grimy New York City, Subway Riders is a faux detective drama that chronicles a string of murders committed by a screen writer/saxophone player named Anthony (played by both Amos Poe and John Lurie) as he moved through the city meeting a variety of odd underworld characters, seducing them with his sax music, shooting them dead, and hiding out in the all night New York City Subway. What ensues is an investigation of the murders by a hard-boiled detective named Fritz Langley (an obvious reference to Fritz Lang) played by Robbie Coltrane. Along the way Anthony meets an assortment of no wave personalities,…

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