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Pendulum

  • 1969
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  • 1h 46min
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6,3/10
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George Peppard, Richard Kiley, and Jean Seberg in Pendulum (1969)
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Lorsque le capitaine de police Frank Matthews est accusé du meurtre de sa femme adultère et de l'amant de celle-ci, il évite l'arrestation et part à la recherche du tueur.Lorsque le capitaine de police Frank Matthews est accusé du meurtre de sa femme adultère et de l'amant de celle-ci, il évite l'arrestation et part à la recherche du tueur.Lorsque le capitaine de police Frank Matthews est accusé du meurtre de sa femme adultère et de l'amant de celle-ci, il évite l'arrestation et part à la recherche du tueur.

  • Réalisation
    • George Schaefer
  • Scénario
    • Stanley Niss
  • Casting principal
    • George Peppard
    • Jean Seberg
    • Richard Kiley
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,3/10
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    • Réalisation
      • George Schaefer
    • Scénario
      • Stanley Niss
    • Casting principal
      • George Peppard
      • Jean Seberg
      • Richard Kiley
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    • 5avis des critiques
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  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 1 nomination au total

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    George Peppard
    George Peppard
    • Police Captain Frank Matthews
    Jean Seberg
    Jean Seberg
    • Adele Matthews
    Richard Kiley
    Richard Kiley
    • Woodrow Wilson King
    Charles McGraw
    Charles McGraw
    • Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
    Madeleine Sherwood
    Madeleine Sherwood
    • Mrs. Eileen Sanderson
    Robert F. Lyons
    Robert F. Lyons
    • Paul Martin Sanderson
    Frank Marth
    Frank Marth
    • Police Lt. Smithson
    Marj Dusay
    Marj Dusay
    • Liz Tennant
    Paul McGrath
    Paul McGrath
    • Senator Augustus Cole
    Stewart Moss
    Stewart Moss
    • Richard D'Angelo
    Isabel Sanford
    Isabel Sanford
    • Effie
    • (as Isabell Sanford)
    Dana Elcar
    Dana Elcar
    • Police Det. J.J. 'Red' Thornton
    Harry Lewis
    Harry Lewis
    • Brooks Elliot
    Mildred Trares
    • Mary Schumacher
    Robin Raymond
    Robin Raymond
    • Myra
    Phyllis Hill
    • Mrs. Wilma Elliot
    S. John Launer
    S. John Launer
    • Judge Kinsella
    Jock MacKelvie
    • U.S. Attorney Grady Butler
    • Réalisation
      • George Schaefer
    • Scénario
      • Stanley Niss
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    • Production, box office et plus encore chez IMDbPro

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    6mgem1200

    Not bad for low budget style

    A bit preachy in the Jack Webb style but plot wise it's a good movie to spend 100 minutes watching. Peppard leads the cast. Seberg is hardly present in the movie yet she receives 2nd billing. The supporting cast is good with a few tv familiar faces including Dana Elcar and Isabelle Sanford. The exterior shots are interesting to see as a time capsule of Washington DC in 1968. The Columbia back lot used for many tv shows is used but with an obvious matte painting to hide some of the wide shots that would have shown to much of the studio. The content is mature but it is not a film to be given as many ads say an R rating by the mpaa. It would most likely be rated PG today no more no less. No nudity, no severe language, violent but not terribly unwatchable. It could be on tv today completely uncut. It's definitely not R! Enjoy.
    7adrianovasconcelos

    Good cast, direction; hard to believe script

    I readily admit that I know very little about Director George Schaefer, who appears to have done more TV film than cinema.

    The title PENDULUM comes from the words of a circuit judge reluctant to release on technical grounds proven rapist cum murderer Sanderson (coyly played by Rpbert Lyons, with typical connection to Mom Madeleine Sherwood).

    The movie opens with an interesting relationship between police captain Matthews (Peppard) and cheating wife Jean Seberg, looking somewhat plumper than nine years earlier in Jean-Luc Godard's A BOUT DE SOUFFLE but still extremely gorgeous in her 1960s attire, and in her translucent gowns. You know instinctively that her deception will not last and that Sanderson, who Peppard put behind bars, will seek revenge.

    That part of the movie is engrossing. The part of Peppard being immediately found guilty by his own copper colleagues, escaping, and using the street phone booth to gain access to Sanderson at his mother's place beggars an excessive amount of suspension of disbelief.

    In any event, PENDULUM remains quite watchable. Seberg comes across as a charming cheat, Richard Kiley does well as lawyer Woodrow Wilson King (familiar names, ain't it?), interesting to see Charles McGraw as deputy police chief (up from police detective in the great B picture, NARROW MARGIN, of 1952) and cinematography by Lionel Lindon is quite professionally done. 7/10.
    9planktonrules

    A heck of a good cop film...definitely underrated.

    I had never heard of "Pendulum" before and as shocked how good the movie was. It's definitely among the best films of the 1960s even though it's a rather obscure movie.

    George Peppard stars as Captain Matthews...a decorated cop who recently arrested a murderous psychopath. However, two things happen that will become important. First, Matthews' wife is cheating on him and he is beginning to suspect the truth. Second, due to a technicality, the psychopath has been released even though everyone knows he is guilty. How do these two things work together to REALLY impact on the Captain? See the film.

    George Peppard is really good here. The other actor who was a major standout is Robert Lyons as the psychotic murderer and rapist. He's quite smug and chilling! Now one part of the film MIGHT seem like a cliche that isn't is when the Captain escapes from custody after he's arrested (yes, he ends up being arrested for a double murder). Normally, this is a bad plot element...the notion of an innocent man escaping in order to prove he's not guilty. Here it's handled well...as it's obvious that for political reasons the Captain is assumed to be guilty and the cops aren't even considering other options. In a case like this, you can understand Matthews' actions.

    Overall, a very exciting, taut and suspenseful film...well worth seeing because it is so intelligently made from start to finish. So good, I nearly gave this one a 10....and I almost never do that!
    6bkoganbing

    Read 'em their rights

    The film Pendulum came out when use of the Miranda decision was fairly new and police departments all over the nation were still grumbling about it as convictions were being overturned. Such a conviction overturned was that of rapist Robert F. Lyons and that really bothers the arresting officer George Peppard.

    Still Peppard is ready for a career change. He's been appointed to the staff of the crime committee of US Senator Paul McGrath. By the way McGrath is one smooth politician and definitely not one to be in a foxhole with.

    Peppard is going to need all the friends he can get because he is accused of murdering his wife Jean Seberg and her boyfriend Harry Lewis while catching them in the act. I've always found it amazing that some of the biggest law and order types when they get in a jackpot always want to make sure those rights are available.

    Still of all the lawyers he could have picked Peppard chooses civil libertarian Richard Kiley, the same man who got Lyons's conviction reversed. That has all his cop buddies raising their eyebrows like Charles McGraw, Frank Marth, and Dana Elcar.

    Pendulum concentrates on its ironical message to the extent that it really forgets to put in a good mystery. No doubt who is the doer of this deed from the gitgo.

    A lot of familiar faces are in Pendulum, but possibly the best performance in the film is from Madeline Sherwood. As Lyons's much put upon mother she has an aura of quiet desperation in her role and her scenes with Lyons and Peppard really count.

    Nice picture with a message that is still relevant today.
    7BarneyBergman

    A Chain Smoking George

    Just saw this movie again after 39 years. Well-acted period piece. Out-dated by today's standards, but still a decent night at the movies. What really caught my attention was how George Peppard chained smoked throughout this film. The guy burned one in every scene. Aside from that, he did give a creditable performance, but nothing to write home about.

    Jean Seberg looked beautiful. She was a rare beauty and very talented as well. She is wasted here, but her brief time on scene does capture your attention.

    The supporting cast of veteran actors do a professional job. The only real problem is that the film drags at times and lacks any real action. The ending was typical, but this was 1969, so don't expect too many surprises.

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    • Anecdotes
      During location filming in Washington, DC, Martin Luther King was assassinated. The resulting riots in the capital caused the shooting company to wrap early and return to Los Angeles. Visible in the rear window of the cab during Jean Seberg's ride through the city, buildings are burning and smoke is obvious.
    • Gaffes
      In the opening sequence, under the main titles, the taxicab starts out as a 1964 Plymouth. Upon arrival at its destination, the car has changed to a 1968 Plymouth.
    • Citations

      Judge Kinsella: On your last appearance before me, Mr. Sanderson, it was my unpleasant duty to sentence you to death in the electric chair. Now, the duty I have before me now is in some respects even more unpleasant. I have no quarrel with the principle of law involved, it's a good and wise application of our constitutional guarantees, but in this case, it results in turning loose upon society a degraded and immoral person.

      Judge Kinsella: [he continues] There's no doubt that in the first half of the twentieth century, we - and I mean the press and the public as well as the courts - had looked the other way as our police, in the name of law and order, showed a patent disregard for individual liberties as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. But it seems now that the pendulum is swinging a little too far the other way.

      [sighs heavily]

      Judge Kinsella: Well there is hope; gravity will bring it to rest at some point where the interests of both individual liberty and the community as a whole are best served. Motion is granted.

    • Connexions
      Referenced in Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012)
    • Bandes originales
      The Pendulum Swings Both Ways
      Music by Walter Scharf

      Lyrics by Mack David

      Sung by The Lettermen (as The Letterman)

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    • How long is Pendulum?Alimenté par Alexa

    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 9 avril 1969 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Pendulum, la nuit sans témoin
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Lincoln Memorial, 2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC, États-Unis
    • Société de production
      • Pendulum Productions
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    • Durée
      1 heure 46 minutes
    • Mixage
      • Mono
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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