---
title: 'Black Sunday (1977)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Frankenheimer'
released: '1977-03-22'
runtime_minutes: 143
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Action'
  - 'Mystery'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/black-sunday-1977'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075765/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Black Sunday (1977)

1977 · R · 143 min · Action, Mystery, Crime, Thriller · United States


## Synopsis

Black Sunday is a 1977 American action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name. It was produced by Robert Evans, and stars Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller. It was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1978. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross and Ivan Moffat. Ross had previously written the screenplay for The Day of the Jackal, a similar plot-driven political thriller. The inspiration of the story came from the Munich massacre, perpetrated by the Black September organization against Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics, giving the title for the novel and film.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Frankenheimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-frankenheimer)
- **Screenplay:** [Ernest Lehman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-lehman), [Ivan Moffat](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-moffat), [Kenneth Ross](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-ross)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-williams-2)
- **Editor:** [Tom Rolf](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-rolf)
- **Producer:** [Robert Evans](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-evans)
- **Director of Photography:** [John A. Alonzo](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-a-alonzo)

## Cast

- [Marthe Keller](https://cinepixo.com/people/marthe-keller)
- [Walter Gotell](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-gotell)
- [William Daniels](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-daniels)
- [Fritz Weaver](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-weaver)
- [Walter Brooke](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-brooke)
- [Clyde Kusatsu](https://cinepixo.com/people/clyde-kusatsu)
- [Michael V. Gazzo](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-v-gazzo)
- [Steven Keats](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-keats)
- [Robert Ito](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-ito)
- [Bruce Dern](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-dern)
- [Bekim Fehmiu](https://cinepixo.com/people/bekim-fehmiu)
- [Terry Bradshaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/terry-bradshaw)
- [Robert Shaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-shaw)

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