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1977
Black Sunday is a 1977 American action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name. It was produced by Robert Evans, and stars Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller. It was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1978. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross and Ivan Moffat. Ross had previously written the screenplay for The Day of the…
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The 1970s were a very difficult time for America. Its citizens were, however, unlike those in many Western countries during the Years of Lead, mostly spared international terrorism. Legendary producer Robert Evans, on the other hand, recognised a spectacular terrorist act as an excellent way to combine two popular trends in 1970s Hollywood – complicated spy thrillers and disaster epics. The result was *Black Sunday*…More
