Two-Minute Warning (1976) - Shout! Factory - June 28, 2016

[Akijama]

https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/fi...minute-warning

In just two terrifying minutes the lives of 91,000 people were changed forever.

A nightmare of fear and panic unfolds in this chilling tale of a lone gunman who sets his sights on a sell-out crowd at a championship football game.

Charlton Heston is the police captain who leads the desperate fight to stop the madman – high atop the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – before he sets off widespread devastation in the jam-packed stadium.

John Cassavetes and Martin Balsam are among those risking their lives to thwart the sniper's attempts, while innocent spectators Gena Rowlands, Jack Klugman, Beau Bridges, Walter Pidgeon, David Janssen and thousands of others try to hide from the fatal gun sites and avoid the deadly ensuing stampede.

[rkolinski]

Excited to own both this and Rollercoaster but we really need the much better disaster film - Black Sunday!

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by rkolinski

Excited to own both this and Rollercoaster but we really need the much better disaster film - Black Sunday!

I came here to post the exact same thing about Black Sunday

[octagon]

At first I thought this was Black Sunday

To be honest I don't remember much about either movie but I loved the novel Black Sunday.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by Akijama

https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/fi...minute-warning

I've always enjoyed this film. It would be nice if Shout could get their hands on the alternate TV version as a bonus feature.

[PowellPressburger]

This movie is awesome it has a great line of dialogue about head butting someone lol

This and Rollercoaster ! Summertime can't come soon enough

[javi92]

Never seen this, but interested just because it's got Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands: even if they are probably just collecting paychecks.

[kidglov3s]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

This movie is awesome it has a great line of dialogue about head butting someone lol

This and Rollercoaster ! Summertime can't come soon enough

Last Summer I went on a disaster movie binge and in the span of a few weeks watched this, Rollercoaster, the Airport sequels, Earthquake, Grey Lady Down, Black Sunday....

Needless to say I'm absolutely stoked about this announcement! **** yeah!

[Laserguy]

This was the first R-rated movie my dad took me to see when I was a kid. For that reason it's always been a sentimental favorite of mine. The DVD was one of the very first that Universal issued in the late 1990's when DVDs started taking off. It was non-anamorphic.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by kidglov3s

Last Summer I went on a disaster movie binge and in the span of a few weeks watched this, Rollercoaster, the Airport sequels, Earthquake, Grey Lady Down, Black Sunday....

Needless to say I'm absolutely stoked about this announcement! **** yeah!

Yoû left out the best disaster movie of all, THE BIG BUS.

[kidglov3s]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

Yoû left out the best disaster movie of all, THE BIG BUS.

I kept meaning to watch that too! CONSIDER IT ON THE LIST

[movielib]

So glad to see the love for Black Sunday. Yes, a much better film than Two-Minute Warning but the latter is still good enough to own.

Surprised no one has mentioned that Black Sunday the novel was written by Thomas Harris who later wrote the Hannibal novels.

[kidglov3s]

Originally Posted by movielib

So glad to see the love for Black Sunday. Yes, a much better film than Two-Minute Warning but the latter is still good enough to own.

Surprised no one has mentioned that Black Sunday the novel was written by Thomas Harris who later wrote the Hannibal novels.

The test run scene from Black Sunday left a greater impression on me than anything else I saw last year.

Just... wow. Keller and Dern played that so effectively.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by kidglov3s

The test run scene from Black Sunday left a greater impression on me than anything else I saw last year.

Just... wow. Keller and Dern played that so effectively.

I read the book something like forty years ago and that sequence is still the first thing I think of whenever this comes to mind.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by Laserguy

This was the first R-rated movie my dad took me to see when I was a kid. For that reason it's always been a sentimental favorite of mine. The DVD was one of the very first that Universal issued in the late 1990's when DVDs started taking off. It was non-anamorphic.

It was one of the first DVDs I ever owned back in 1998 or something. Universal released Rollercoaster at about the same time, as well as Swashbuckler.

[Dvd Aficionado]

I hope they're putting this as the reversible cover


I saw this at the movies and that picture of the sniper was what I always remembered about the flick.

[BarnDoor]

Interesting extras, in particular the TV version:

Originally Posted by Shout Factory

NEW Interview With Director Larry Peerce
Network Television Broadcast Version (Standard Definition – 141 minutes)
Still Gallery
Radio Spots
Theatrical Trailer

[baheidstu]

Wow, that's cool that they're including the TV cut after all. If you scroll up, you'll see that was the first question I had about this. The theatrical cut is still superior, but it's an interesting curiosity that it even exists.

[PowellPressburger]

Wow nice include of the TV version! Very cool!

Curious if the TV version will be 4:3 or widescreen?

[DMRI2006]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Wow nice include of the TV version! Very cool!

Curious if the TV version will be 4:3 or widescreen?

Almost certainly will be 4:3, as the new scenes were shot in 4:3 for TV back in the '70s. There's never been another master of it, and the film was re-edited so heavily for TV (not just with new scenes having been shot but the whole film having been reworked plot-wise), you couldn't just insert them into a widescreen print of the movie and have it work.