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Morton Freedgood was a best-selling author who wrote The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and many other detective and mystery novels under the pen name John Godey. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (published in 1973) is a Thriller novel by Morton Freedgood, writing under the pseudonym John Godey

Biography

Freedgood was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1913 and began writing at a young age. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. In the 1940s, he had several articles and short stories published in Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Esquire and other magazines while working full time in the motion picture industry in New York. Cosmopolitan is the best-selling young women's magazine in the world Collier's Weekly was an American Magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957 Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition The City of New York He held public relations and publicity posts for United Artists, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and other companies for several years before he decided to focus on his writing. This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California.

His novel The Wall-to-Wall Trap was published under his own name in 1957. But he decided to use the pen name John Godey — borrowed from the name of a 19th-century women's magazine — to differentiate his crime novels from his more serious writing.

As John Godey, he later achieved commercial success with the books A Thrill a Minute With Jack Albany, Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today and The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, his novel about the hijacking of a New York City subway train, was a best seller in 1973 and was made into a hit movie starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw in 1974. The New York City Subway is a Rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (also known as The Taking of Pelham 123) is a thriller movie released in 1974. Walter John Matthau ( October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American award-winning Actor best known for his role Robert Archibald Shaw ( 9 August, 1927 &ndash 28 August, 1978) was an English stage and Film Actor

His work was later referenced in the film Reservoir Dogs and by the Beastie Boys. Reservoir Dogs is the 1992 debut Film of director and writer Quentin Tarantino.

He died April 16, 2006 in his home in West New York, NJ. Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. West New York is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, situated upon the New Jersey Palisades.


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