Panico nello stadio

Titolo originale: Two-Minute Warning
Regia: Larry Peerce |
Anno: 1976
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Azione Thriller
Tag: assassin | assassination | usa president | sports | firearm | los angeles, california | american football stadium | disaster movie | intense | distressing | ominous |
Cast: Charlton Heston | John Cassavetes | Martin Balsam | Beau Bridges | Marilyn Hassett | David Janssen | Jack Klugman | Gena Rowlands | Walter Pidgeon | Brock Peters | David Groh | Mitchell Ryan | Joe Kapp | Pamela Bellwood | Jon Korkes | Susan Backlinie | Sandy Johnson | Brooke Mills | Michael Gregory | Branscombe Richmond | J.A. Preston | Hollis Irving | William Bryant | Allan Miller | Andy Sidaris | Dick Winslow | Garry Walberg | Cay Forester | Christine Nelson | Howard Cosell | Frank Gifford | Dick Enberg | Merv Griffin | Larry Manetti | John Stuart West |

Presso il Memorial Coliseum di Los Angeles si sta per giocare un'attesissima finale di rugby in una grandiosa cornice di folla. Il servizio d'ordine però individua sulla torre più alta dello stadio un uomo armato di fucile. All'ultimo momento si riesce a evitare il previsto arrivo del presidente degli Stati Uniti, ma l'intervento della squadra speciale per disarmare lo sconosciuto ne scatena l'immediata reazione. Ai primi spari il panico si impossessa della folla. Il film ebbe un buon successo all'epoca, ma oggi appare quasi un telefilm senza gran ritmo, nonostante il cast stellare.

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The notorious re-edited and re-worked television version of this movie premiered on NBC in prime-tim [...] D
Universal spent an estimated $500,000 in December 1978 to shoot additional scenes for a television v [...] D
The American football match was between Baltimore and Los Angeles but neither team was given a masco [...] D
Jack Klugman and Martin Balsam previously appeared in La parola ai giurati (1957). D
There was a later version released (to NBC television) that had footage not shown in theaters. In th [...] D
Newspaper press advertisements for the re-worked television version of this movie featured a long te [...] D
The only known copy of the alternate 1979 NBC television cut, the commercial-less TNT recording from [...] D
Susan Backlinie appears as a loyal Los Angeles fan who flashes her shirt at the cameras (seen briefl [...] D
The film from Universal Pictures is considered part of the 1970s cycle of Hollywood disaster movies. [...] D
The only non-Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be nominated for Best Editing. D
The movie was deemed too violent to show intact on broadcast television, so they re-wrote the story [...] D
The name of the sports stadium was the real-life Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The venue can be see [...] D
Publicity for this picture declared that there was one sniper, thirty-three exit gates and 91,000 pe [...] D
A marketing gimmick devised by Universal Pictures to promote the film stated that patrons were not a [...] D
Actors who appeared in the film's television version who didn't appear in the cinema movie included [...] D
Penultimate film of actor Walter Pidgeon, his last being two years later in 1978's Sextette (1977). [...] D
Capt. Holly compares Sgt. Button's SWAT team members to stormtroopers. This does not refer to the tr [...] D
Director Larry Peerce had his name removed from the television version of this movie. The director c [...] D
Former real-life Boston Patriots and Minnesota Vikings NFL quarterback Joe Kapp played a veteran NFL [...] D
Actress Gena Rowlands and actor John Cassavetes were married but their characters in the movie were [...] D
Final film of Cay Forester. D
The film's originally scheduled release date (according to an ad in "Variety") was July 30, 1976. D
Andy Sidaris, as "TV Director", is essentially playing himself. He was a frequent director of ABC Sp [...] D
In the original version, David Janssen's character is killed just as he comes back into the stadium. [...] D
David Janssen described his experience using squibs to simulate gunshots: "You won't be burned if it [...] D
Merv Griffin: The talk-show host as himself singing the American National Anthem at the football mat [...] D
Walter Pidgeon plays here an elder pickpocket, a role he also had in another movie: Harry In Your Po [...] D
SWAT stands for "Special Weapons And Tactics". D
The production team actually contacted the National Football League about using the NFL and its team [...] D
The character known as "The Sniper" is finally revealed to be named Carl Cook in the theatrical vers [...] D
The gun that "The Sniper" has is a modified Remington 742 rifle fitted with a telescopic sight (scop [...] D
The film was made and released one year after the source novel of the same name by George LaFountain [...] D
The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 but it lost out to Rocky [...] D
The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Charlton Heston and Martin Balsam; and three Oscar nominee [...] D
Lead actor Charlton Heston later became the National Rifle Association's president. D
The film's "Two-minute Warning" title is a sports term taken from professional American football. A [...] D
Most of the movie was filmed at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after the 1975 American football s [...] D
Charlton Heston joked while doing promotional work for this movie, that it was a pleasant change to [...] D

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