Black Sunday R
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 21, 2020
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern & Marthe Keller | |
Performer: | Bekim Fehmiu, Victor Campos, Steven Keats, Walter Gotell, Fritz Weaver & Michael V. Gazzo | |
Directed by | John Frankenheimer | |
Edited by | Tom Rolf | |
Screenwriting by | Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross & Ivan Moffat | |
Original story by | Thomas Harris | |
Composition by | John Williams | |
Produced by | Robert Evans | |
Director of Photography: | John A. Alonzo | |
Executive Production by | Robert L. Rosen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Black Sunday may well make a bundle, thanks to the technical skill with which it manages its long-delayed payoff. But it is getting tiresome to be forced to admire, for want of anything else to do, the skill with which moviemakers jerk audiences around.
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TIME Magazine
The performances are faultless, the direction is slick; the terror and suspense builds, and the music works suitably on the nerve endings. But I'm getting sick of round-the-clock violence.
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Los Angeles Free Press
The plot is childish and the narration is cold and impersonal. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 3/5 --
Bruce Dern gives one of his best edgy performances as a Vietnam veteran recruited by the terrorists, while Robert Shaw, Marthe Keller and Fritz Weaver all impress their personalities on the action.
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Sky Cinema
John Frankenheimer's film of Black Sunday is an intelligent and meticulous depiction of an act of outlandish terrorism -- the planned slaughter of the Super Bowl stadium audience.
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Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
One of the best of the disaster films of the 1970s, the genuinely disturbing Black Sunday is likely to cause nightmares long after you've seen it.
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TV Guide
Violence (more than 30 on-screen deaths) makes a poor substitute for suspense, while sloppy, rear projection work drains most of the excitement from the climax.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
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.
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Politics
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Suspense
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Terrorism
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Terrorists
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Based On A Novel
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- Sales Rank: 23,605
- UPC: 032429338075
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