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IT COULD BE TOMORROW!
Throughout the 1970s, a wave of daring disaster movies gripped cinemagoers with their combination of bravura spectacle and “ripped from the headlines” plotlines. Among these, John Frankenheimer’s (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) Black Sunday endures to this day as among the cream of the crop.
Robert Shaw (Jaws, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) stars as Major Kabakov, an Israeli agent attempting to avert a terrorist atrocity on US soil. The weapon: a blimp laced with explosives and piloted by Michael Lander (Bruce Dern, Silent Running), a troubled Vietnam vet driven to strike back against the nation he believes has betrayed him. The target: the Orange Bowl stadium, Miami. What follows is a nail-biting race against time culminating in a spectacular aerial climax that will determine the fate of 80,000 spectators.
Adapted from the best-selling debut novel by Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs) and featuring virtuoso performances by a cast headlined by Dern, Shaw and Marthe Keller (Marathon Man), Black Sunday is a nerve-shredding, best-in-class suspense thriller from a filmmaker at the top of his game.
Product Features
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- Original restored lossless mono audio, presented for the first time on Blu-ray
- Optional restored lossless 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio options
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Josh Nelson
- It Could Be Tomorrow – brand new visual essay by critic Sergio Angelini, exploring the film’s adaptation and production, and its place within the pantheon of 70s terrorism thrillers
- The Directors: John Frankenheimer – an hour-long portrait of the director from 2003, including interviews with Frankenheimer, Kirk Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson, Roy Scheider, Rod Steiger and others
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Barry Forshaw
- Arrow Video
- 143 mins approx
- John Frankenheimer
- R
- Bruce Dern
- Robert Shaw
- Marthe Keller
- 2.35:1
English SDH
- 1977
- English
- 1
- A
- Arrow Video
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Arrow Video
IT COULD BE TOMORROW!
Throughout the 1970s, a wave of daring disaster movies gripped cinemagoers with their combination of bravura spectacle and “ripped from the headlines” plotlines. Among these, John Frankenheimer’s (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) Black Sunday endures to this day as among the cream of the crop.
Robert Shaw (Jaws, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) stars as Major Kabakov, an Israeli agent attempting to avert a terrorist atrocity on US soil. The weapon: a blimp laced with explosives and piloted by Michael Lander (Bruce Dern, Silent Running), a troubled Vietnam vet driven to strike back against the nation he believes has betrayed him. The target: the Orange Bowl stadium, Miami. What follows is a nail-biting race against time culminating in a spectacular aerial climax that will determine the fate of 80,000 spectators.
Adapted from the best-selling debut novel by Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs) and featuring virtuoso performances by a cast headlined by Dern, Shaw and Marthe Keller (Marathon Man), Black Sunday is a nerve-shredding, best-in-class suspense thriller from a filmmaker at the top of his game.
Product Features
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- Original restored lossless mono audio, presented for the first time on Blu-ray
- Optional restored lossless 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio options
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Josh Nelson
- It Could Be Tomorrow – brand new visual essay by critic Sergio Angelini, exploring the film’s adaptation and production, and its place within the pantheon of 70s terrorism thrillers
- The Directors: John Frankenheimer – an hour-long portrait of the director from 2003, including interviews with Frankenheimer, Kirk Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson, Roy Scheider, Rod Steiger and others
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Barry Forshaw
- Arrow Video
- 143 mins approx
- John Frankenheimer
- R
- Bruce Dern
- Robert Shaw
- Marthe Keller
- 2.35:1
English SDH
- 1977
- English
- 1
- A
- Arrow Video
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Classic 70s Thriller
Legendary director John Frankenheimer helmed this flick based on the novel by the equally legendary Thomas Harris, creator of Hannibal Lector. Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern play a cat and mouse game with the lives of thousands on the line. Shaw is an Israeli commando chasing down a member of a terroist group responsible for several deadly bombings, played by Marthe Keller. Keller is involved in a relationship with Dern, who plays a disgruntled Vietnam vet out to take revenge against the US for his treatment as a POW during the war and his subsequent treatment after returning home. Keller manipulates and guides him into plotting a terrorist attack at the super bowl using the Goodyear Blimp as a weapon of mass destruction. Frankenheimer never lets up, always keeping the tension just below a boil right up to the moment Bruce Dern commandeers the Goodyear Blimp and crash dives toward the super bowl stadium, then the film lets loose with action on the ground, on the field, culminating in an ariel gun battle with Shaw and Dern facing off.
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