Black Sunday

Black Sunday is both a book by Thomas Harris and a 1977 movie starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern.

Related Topics:
Thomas Harris - 1977 - Movie - Robert Shaw - Bruce Dern

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:Michael Lander (played by Dern in the film), an American blimp pilot, made psychotic by his treatment as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, and frustrated by the lack of sympathy shown to him by the government that sent him there, decides to hook up with a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September, in order to detonate a shrapnel bomb housed in a blimp undercarriage over a football stadium during the Super Bowl. The only man who can stop him is David Kabakov (played by Shaw), an Israeli-government assassin who will stop at nothing to prevent the catastophe.

Related Topics:
Blimp - Psychotic - Prisoner of war - Vietnam War - Terrorist - Black September - Shrapnel - Super Bowl - Israeli - Assassin

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A significant portion of the filming was done during actual game action of Super Bowl X, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on January 18, 1976. The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 21-17.

Related Topics:
Super Bowl X - Orange Bowl - Miami, Florida - January 18 - 1976 - Pittsburgh Steelers - Dallas Cowboys

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