The R17 in Cinema
Cars 6671 and 6609 were featured at Grand Central Terminal in the 1971 film The French Connection in a scene where Gene Hackman's character is tailing a heroin smuggler. At that time, the cars were painted in the MTA platinum mist/blue band livery.
R17s can been seen on the 42 Street Shuttle in Ron Howard's Night Shift.
The interior of a repainted red R17 operating on the 5 can be briefly seen in the opening credits of Oliver Stone's Wall Street.
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