 Two Minute Warning (1976)
The decidedly odd couple of Charlton Heston and John Cassavetes
co-starred in this Superbowl disaster flick, which perched a
sniper high above the scoreboard of the sold-out Los Angeles
Coliseum, opening fire on fans watching a championship football
game.
This gory action sequence takes place during the last fifteen
minutes of the movie. The rest is filled with tedious
slice-of-life vignettes about selected spectators, who are
eventually killed or injured.
Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (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.
One of the more pointless pleasures to be found in disaster
films is contemplating whatever happened to the hot faces of the
moment who rounded out the huge casts; this one includes Pamela
Bellwood and David Groh, fleetingly famous for being the husband
of TV's Rhoda.
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