Black Sunday (1977)

Directed by

John Frankenheimer

Genre

action film, disaster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 23m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 166 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A terrorist group plots an attack at the Super Bowl using a blimp. A team of law enforcement and intelligence agents race to stop them.

tensesuspensefulgrittybleakfast-pacedurgentparanoidgrim

What happens

Black Sunday is a 1977 American action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name. It was produced by Robert Evans, and stars Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller. It was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1978. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross and Ivan Moffat. Ross had previously written the screenplay for The Day of the Jackal, a similar plot-driven political thriller. The inspiration of the story came from the Munich massacre, perpetrated by the Black September organization against Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics, giving the title for the novel and film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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