Black Sunday Poster Orignal Daybill 1977 Robert Shaw Munich Massacre
Daybill poster with striking art by the artist Fenton.Black Sunday is a 1977 American action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris' 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. Quentin Tarantino has said in interviews that a particular sequence in Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a homage to a similar sequence in Black Sunday.
