One of my all-time favorite flicks, this is a tense, suspenseful and action packed thriller, about terrorists attempting to kill 80,000 people at the Super Bowl. Although long (143 minutes) not a frame is wasted. Starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller.
Robert Shaw gives an excellent performance here as an Israeli intelligence agent, made even better as he was just coming off Jaws when he did this pic.
Bruce Dern had unfortunately been pigeonholed into these types of troubled psycho roles for ages even prior to this pic. For another (although still dark) side of Dern, check out the 1975 beauty contest spoof Smile.
Ms. Keller was a major presence in late 1970's cinema, with roles in this pic, Marathon Man and the Al Pacino porker Bobby Deerfield. Whatever happened to her?
One nit-Robert Shaw's character has never heard of the Super Bowl, which was about ten years old (clips are used from Super Bowl X here) when this pic was made. Is that credible? The hype surrounding the Super Bowl even then was deafening. Could a foreign national, back in 1976, have never heard of the Super Bowl? (Nowadays, the global hype surrounding the Super Bowl is all but inescapable.)

Hadn't seen this film in years. It is a good one though Adam.

It should be mentioned that it was based on the novel of the same name written by Thomas Harris. Harris, of course, now only writes Hannibal Lector books.

DVD Nit: It states the film's release date as 1976. However, I remember this film opened in limited release in April, 1977, and went wide in July or August of that year.

Terrorist Dahlia (Marthe Keller) is disguised as a nun, aiming to kill Israeli agent Kabakov (Robert Shaw) while the agent is hospitalized. Her excessive eye shadow pretty much gives away that she isn't a nun. (That fact isn't lost another agent, played by Steven Keats. Unfortunately, he pays the price.)

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