Legendary director John Frankenheimer helmed this flick based on the novel by the equally legendary Thomas Harris, creator of Hannibal Lector. Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern play a cat and mouse game with the lives of thousands on the line. Shaw is an Israeli commando chasing down a member of a terroist group responsible for several deadly bombings, played by Marthe Keller. Keller is involved in a relationship with Dern, who plays a disgruntled Vietnam vet out to take revenge against the US for his treatment as a POW during the war and his subsequent treatment after returning home. Keller manipulates and guides him into plotting a terrorist attack at the super bowl using the Goodyear Blimp as a weapon of mass destruction. Frankenheimer never lets up, always keeping the tension just below a boil right up to the moment Bruce Dern commandeers the Goodyear Blimp and crash dives toward the super bowl stadium, then the film lets loose with action on the ground, on the field, culminating in an ariel gun battle with Shaw and Dern facing off.