Two-Minute Warning (1976)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Larry Peerce

Writers:

Edward Hume (writer)
George La Fountaine Sr. (novel)

Release Date:

12 November 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

For some...too much time to wait. For the rest...too little time to run.

Plot:

A psychotic man, armed with a hunting rifle and acting alone, goes on a sniping spree and is hunted by the police and a SWAT team...

Plot Keywords:

Sniper | Football Game | SWAT Team | Police | Stadium

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

US TV Schedule:

Wed. July 29

9:45 AM

AMC

Cast

Charlton Heston	...	Capt. Peter Holly
John Cassavetes	...	Sgt. Chris Button
Martin Balsam	...	Sam McKeever
Beau Bridges	...	Mike Ramsay
Marilyn Hassett	...	Lucy
David Janssen	...	Steve
Jack Klugman	...	Stu Sandman
Gena Rowlands	...	Janet
Walter Pidgeon	...	The pickpocket
Brock Peters	...	Paul
David Groh	...	Al
Mitch Ryan	...	The priest (as Mitchell Ryan)
Joe Kapp	...	Charlie Tyler
Pamela Bellwood	...	Peggy Ramsay
Jon Korkes	...	Jeffrey

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Finland:K-16 (cut) (1987) | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1977) | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1977) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - 3911 S. Figueroa Street, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Filmways Pictures

Trivia:

The movie was deemed too violent to show intact on broadcast television, so they re-wrote the story and added a heist element. The re-written material minimized both the main storyline and the subplots.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After maintenance man Brock Peters is struck in the face by the assassin with a rifle butt and falls 60 feet to his death, Charlton Heston's character tells other policemen that Brock was "butt stroked" off the ladder. This is not correct military or police jargon. The only people who were "butt stroked" were poor Heston, who had to keep a straight face while he said it; poor Brock, who supposedly suffered the indignity; and the producers, who paid some expert to advise them and left the line in the movie.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Not a far fetched film after all!

Two minute warning is A crime thriller-disaster film, laden with an all star cast with Charlton Heston as the head of the LA Police Department and John Cassavettes as the leader of the SWAT team, at a major-league football stadium (the LA Coliseum) filled with 91,000 fans during a championship game between Los Angeles and Baltimore, and an anonymous psychotic sniper with a high-powered hunting rifle perched on the top of the stadium's scoreboard. This cliffhanger brought suspense to film-goers and mass panic among the spectators as they stampeded in the film's finale. in light of recent events such as 'the Washington sniper ' this film proves that the incident is Not a far fetched after all!