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Budget. $6.7 million [ 1] Box office. $6.7 million (estimated) Two-Minute Warning is a 1976 action thriller film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, and David Janssen. It was based on the novel of the same name written by George LaFountaine [ fr].
Nov 12, 1976 · Two-Minute Warning: Directed by Larry Peerce. With Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges. A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
- (4.4K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Larry Peerce
- 1976-11-12
Overview. A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene. Larry Peerce. Director.
Two-Minute Warning is a disaster movie from 1976. It stars Charlton Heston, Jack Klugman, and Martin Balsam. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Categories: 1976 action movies. 1976 thriller movies. American action thriller movies. English-language movies. Movies directed by Larry Peerce.
After a gambler named Mr. Sandman (Jack Klugman) places a large bet on the Los Angeles team, he is summoned to the hotel suite of Mr. Green (Alan Miller), a gangster to whom Sandman owes $28,000. Green demands the money at the conclusion of the game, or Sandman will be killed. Outside the Coliseum, Mike and Peggy Ramsay (Beau Bridges and Pamela ...
Two-Minute Warning is ostensibly a 70s disaster movie, and to its credit fulfills many of the genre's cheesy tropes, but it packs a surprisingly hard punch. It's executed with tension, rigor and a jarring indifference to audience placation, plus the mass shooter story line, relatively rare for its time, makes this an apropos horror movie for our lunatic Twenty First Century.
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Two-Minute Warning is a 1976 disaster film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, and David Janssen. It was based on the novel of the same name written by George La Fountaine, Sr. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
