Two-Minute Warning

Two-Minute Warning is set at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where a championship football game has drawn more than ninety thousand spectators, among them politicians and other public figures. As the crowd gathers, a man with a telescopic rifle takes up a hiding place on one of the stadium's towers. When the police learn what is planned, a SWAT team and the stadium's security chief, Captain Peter Holly, move to find the shooter before panic can spread through the stands.

Larry Peerce directed the film, his second feature after Goodbye, Columbus in 1969, from a screenplay by Edward Hume and produced by Edward S. Feldman. Charlton Heston plays Captain Holly, with John Cassavetes as Sergeant Chris Button, Martin Balsam as Sam McKeever, Beau Bridges as Mike Ramsay, Marilyn Hassett as Lucy and David Janssen as Steve among a credited cast of thirty-five. Universal Pictures and Filmways Pictures released it in November 1976.

The production had a budget of about seven million dollars and took in roughly the same amount worldwide, so it did not return much beyond its cost. Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb it holds a 6.2 rating from about 4,800 votes, and on TMDB a 6.3 from a much smaller base of 102 votes.