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Mood:
- SuspensefulExciting
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Plot:
- Race Against TimeTerrorismCrimesDangerDeadlyState AffairsChaseRescue more...
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Genres:
- ActionThriller
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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- FloridaMiamiStadium
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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- Critically Acclaimed
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- Based on Book
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- Violent Content
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Black Sunday, 1977
English
USA
Profile of Black Sunday
Black Sunday can be described as suspenseful and exciting. The plot revolves around terrorism, a race against time, and state affairs. The main genres are thriller and action. In approach, Black Sunday is serious and realistic. The storytelling is fast paced. It is set, at least in part, in a stadium. Black Sunday is located in Miami. It takes place in the 20th century. It is based on a book. Black Sunday has received attention for being critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves violent content.
Summary of Black Sunday
John Frankenheimer's eerily plausible adaptation of the Thomas Harris thriller of terrorists at the Super Bowl stars Robert Shaw as Mossad agent Major David Kabakov. Loosely inspired by the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics, the film concerns a group of Arab terrorists, calling themselves Black September, who plan to create havoc at the Super Bowl by sailing the Goodyear blimp into the huge crowd and raining 200,000 steel darts on the spectators. To this end, their leaders, Fasil (Bekim Fehmiu) and Dahlia (Marthe Keller), have decided that she will seduce Michael Lander (Bruce Dern), a disturbed Vietnam POW who pilots the blimp on weekends, and plant the darts without his knowledge. However, during a raid on a Black September stronghold, Kabakov finds a taped message left behind that warns the United States that it will pay dearly for turning its back on the Black September group. Kabakov heads for Washington, where he teams up with FBI agent Sam Corley (Fritz Weaver), desperate to know how and when the threat will be carried out before it happens. This is another excellent political thriller from Frankenheimer, in the tradition of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and SEVEN DAYS IN MAY. Veteran screenwriter Ernest Lehman (NORTH BY NORTHWEST) fashions an uncomfortably convincing scenario, with well-developed characters played with utter conviction by Dern, Shaw, and Weaver.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 11 March 1977 |
| Runtime: | 143 min |
Cast and Crew
as Maj. David Kabakov
as Capt. Michael J. Lander
as Dahlia Iyad
as FBI Agent Sam Corley
as Mohammad Fasil
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