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Black Sunday is another exemplary thriller film from the 1970s that can be put in the same class as THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123, JUGGERNAUT, and Roller-coaster. It's another feather in the cap for director John Frankenheimer, a directed who began his career shooting remarkable pictures like THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and ended it still making remarkable pictures like RONIN, and it's one of his strongest works.The plot is simple, a manhunt slightly reminiscent of DAY OF THE JACKAL. Ruthless Israeli agent Robert Shaw is on the trail of a couple of mad bombers who plan to attack the American Superbowl. The running time is lengthy and the first half slow, but as a slow burner this grips the attention throughout and it builds to large-scale greatness at the climax.Shaw is excellent, as always, and Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller make for suitably disturbed villains. The only thing dated here are the special effects, but that's irrelevant because the rest of the film is so well made and exciting. Black Sunday is a film that offers grittiness, harsh violence, suspense, strong acting, inventiveness, and fear in equal measure, and another great movie from a decade full of them.

For years down to this day since seeing Black Sunday in the theater I've always watched major sporting events with this film in mind. That's the kind of thoughts that director John Frankenheimer plants in your mind with a viewing of Black Sunday.Black September the Palestinian terrorist organization of the day and the ones responsible for the slaughter of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich have something special in mind for America at one of our major sporting events. Israeli intelligence Mosad learns of it and the guy who learned of it is dispatched to the USA to stop it.Robert Shaw is the agent that is sent and he gives a carefully controlled performance of an Israeli assassin. The kind you send out after Arab assassins. Shaw is quiet and deadly and most effective in his acting.The other side is represented by Marthe Keller and note that she's not a traditional Moslem woman in her style of living. Nonetheless both she and Shaw have suffered immense personal tragedies which has brought them to their respective positions. Keller has found a former Navy Pilot who was a Vietnam POW Bruce Dern who is more than slightly unhinged. After a court-martial he's bitter against the USA and wants to commit an atrocity and he has a very specific atrocity in mind. All three of the leads acquit themselves well in their roles. But the real star is the special effects and an ending that for the last half hour will have you on the edge of your seats.I predict your reaction to Black Sunday will be the same as mine. You will never watch a major sporting event without this film in the back of your mind.

Robert Shaw plays Israeli agent Kabokov, who learns that a terrorist organization named Black September is planning an attack on the United States, which involves a known woman terrorist named Dahlia(played by Marthe Keller) who has enlisted the services of disgruntled Vietnam Veteran Michael Lander(played by Bruce Dern) to fly a Good Year blimp in the next Super Bowl, crashing its bomb-laden body into the stadium, killing thousands, all on national television. Kabokov races against time to stop this plan before it is too late...Exciting and provocative film(especially today) has an interesting story, good action, and fine acting, which never lags despite its nearly Two & a half hour length.Based on the Thomas Harris novel, and directed by John Frankenheimer.

Not to be confused with Roger Corman's cult classic 1961 doppleganger, this always topical terrorism fare with Palestinian militants the villains on this occasion, procuring the services of slightly unhinged Vietnam veteran Bruce Dern (a truly manic performance) to hijack a Good Year blimp an detonate a bomb on-board over the Superbowl. Principal terrorist Marthe Keller is Israeli commando Robert Shaw's nemesis after he fails to neutralise her during a midnight raid on the Black September terrorist group headquarters. He subsequently teams up with CIA agent Fritz Weaver in a desperate effort to learn the details of the terror plot, before it can be executed.Taut, gripping Thomas Harris ("Red Dragon") penned thriller with a great supporting cast (Steven Keats, Michael Gazzo, Walter Brooke) and some memorable action sequences. The sub-plot involving feared terrorist Faisal (Bekim Fehmiu) being hunted on the streets of Miami, gunning down bystanders while the FBI descend upon him, is an absolute heart-stopper, not to mention a totally unexpected bloodbath. The climax too is tense and bloody, featuring some impressive stunt work.Aside from Shaw whose character is something of a battle weary patriot, both Marthe Keller as the ultimate black widow and Bruce Dern excel. Dern in particular as the hyper anxious ex-serviceman with a serious axe to grind, has rarely been better cast in a role custom built for his offbeat talents. While it's by no means perforated, if you look for plot holes, you'll find some, but insofar as terrorist movies go, it's a definite success and worth a look.