A hot-button thriller ripped from the day’s headlines, Black Sunday takes the high concept of a blimp bombing at the Super Bowl and creates an expansive epic of war, trauma, and revenge. Maj. Kabakov (Robert Shaw) is a hard-edged Israeli commando who tracks Palestinian terrorist operative Dahlia Iyad (Marthe Keller) to America. His investigation leads him to Michael Lander (Bruce Dern), a disturbed Vietnam veteran who’s been recruited by Iyad to carry out the deadly terror attack. A shadow descends on the biggest game of the year, and it’s not just the blimp blocking out the sun. Expertly directed by political thriller maestro John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May).
“Thomas Harris’ novel has been adapted into a well-plotted, well-executed countdown” – Variety
“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.” – TV Guide
