Main Cast: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett
Release Year: 1976
Country: US
Run Time: 115 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), who wants to get his hands on the sniper without endangering the lives of the people in the stadium. Unfortunately, there is a second group of law enforcement officers, a tactical commando group, who want to go into the stadium and rush the sniper -- regardless of the danger such an action would cause to the crowd watching the game. The sniper plans to start blasting at the two-minute warning signal of the football game. Holly has to find the sniper before the two-minute warning is given -- not merely to prevent the killings threatened by the sniper but to head off the tactical force before any other unnecessary deaths are incurred by the force's bulldog techniques. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
David Janssen - Steve; Jack Klugman - Stu Sandman; Gena Rowlands - Janet; Walter Pidgeon - Pickpocket; Mitchell Ryan - Priest; Joe Kapp - Charlie Tyler; Juli Bridges - Pickpocket's Accomplice; Brooke Mills - Tyler's Girl; Andy Sidaris - TV Director; Jack Brodsky - Spectator; Arnold Carr - Spectators; Christine Nelson - Old Woman At Airport; Holly Irving - Old Woman At Airport; Allan Miller - Mr. Green; Glenn Wilder - Green's Henchman; Warren Miller - Sniper; Frank Gifford - Himself; Dick Enberg - Himself; Merv Griffin - Himself; Gino Ardito - Swanson; Carmen Argenziano - Jennings; Vincent Baggetta - Ted Shelley; Pamela Bellwood - Peggy Ramsay; Tom Bower - Decker; William Bryant - Lt. Calloway; Howard Cosell - Himself; Trent Dolan - Fuller; Richard Feldman - Sutton's Child; Michael Gregory - Angelo; David Groh - Al; Hanna Hertelendy - Couple at S.W.A.T. Call; Thomas Huff - Cyclist; Sandy Johnson - Sutton's Wife; Jon Korkes - Jeffrey; Karl Lukas - Couple at S.W.A.T. Call; Larry Manetti - Pratt; Ed McNally - Newsman with Governors; Wild Bill Mock - Gilmore; Brock Peters - Paul, McKeever's Asst.; J.A. Preston - Policeman; Lina Raymond - Sandman's Girl Friend; Brad Savage - Ramsay Child; Ron Sheldon - Assistant TV Director; Garry Walberg - Governor Ogden; Dick Winslow - Man with Toupee; Forrest Wood - Detective; Buck Young - Baltimore Booster; Asher Brauner - McCoy; Gary Combs - Downing; Robert Ginty - Vendor; Fred Hice - Innocent Suspect; Eugene Daniels - Federal Agent; Boris Aplon - Maitre d'; Terry Hinz - Doctor; Gracia Lee - Mrs. Diller; Ray Nadeau - Newsman in Press Box; Colin Hamilton - Governor Diller; John Ramsey; Stewart Steinberg - Portman; Sharri Zak; Dave Cass - Green's Henchman; Reed Diamond - Ramsay Children; Chuck Tamburro - Porter; Tom Baker - Stakowski; John West - Ambulance Attendant
Credit
Herman A. Blumenthal - Art Director, Vicki Sanchez - Costume Designer, Ken Swor - First Assistant Director, Larry Peerce - Director, Walter A. Hannemann - Editor, Eve Newman - Editor, Charles Fox - Composer (Music Score), Lon Bentley - Makeup, Tony Lloyd - Makeup, Gerald Hirschfeld - Cinematographer, Ed Feldman - Producer, John M. Dwyer - Set Designer, Albert J. Whitlock - Special Effects, James R. Alexander - Sound/Sound Designer, Robert L. Hoyt - Sound/Sound Designer, Glenn Wilder - Stunts, Edward C. Hume - Screenwriter, George LaFountaine - Book Author
