Black Sunday

An Isreali anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.

• Director: John Frankenheimer
• Genre:Action / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:143 minutes

Cast

Robert Shaw : Kabakov
Bruce Dern : Lander

Marthe Keller : Dahlia
Fritz Weaver : Corley
Steven Keats : Moshevsky

Michael Lander (Bruce Dern) is an American blimp pilot deranged by years of torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, a failed marriage, and a bitter court martial. He longs to commit suicide and take as many people as possible with him, so he conspires with Dahlia Iyad (Marthe Keller), an operative from a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September, to launch a massive suicide bombing on American soil. Lander plans to detonate a flechette-based bomb, housed on the underside of a blimp, over the Miami Orange Bowl during the Super Bowl X between Pittsburgh and Dallas. American and Israeli intelligence agencies, led by Mossad agent David Kabakov (Robert Shaw) and FBI agent Sam Corley (Fritz Weaver), race to prevent the catastrophe. The President of the United States is also attending the game. Read more