
Event Details
John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, 1962) directed this epic international thriller based on the debut novel by Thomas Harris, creator of Hannibal Lecter. Robert Shaw, in a rare and welcome heroic leading role, is a world-weary Mossad agent on the trail of a Black September terrorist (Marthe Keller) and her unstable partner (Bruce Dern) planning an unthinkable crime on US soil.
John Williams’s score adds to the pulse-pounding excitement, and the screenplay by Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross, and Ivan Moffat gives the characters on both sides of the conflict their due.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1977 | 143 min. | USA | Color | Scope | English | Rated R | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: John Frankenheimer
WRITTEN BY: Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross, Ivan Moffat
WITH: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Bekim Fehmiu