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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)
CrimeDramaThriller

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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    9weeds526

    Proud of My Great Uncle Stanley

    Check out the top of the Pendulum IMDb page, and you'll see a guy by the name of Stanley Niss, who wrote and produced this movie. He was my father's mother's brother, or great uncle. I recently learned more about my Great Uncle, and I was finally able to dig up my grandma's VHS copy of Pendulum in her condo. Just the fact that they were able to get a movie centered around a rapist rated only PG is enough of an accomplishment, but seeing George Peppard star surprised me even more.

    So, I popped it in my 18 inch VHS TV and watched. Well, it's the 60's alright, the music, the sets, the wardrobes, the chain smoking, there's no denying that. But all in all, I liked it as a standard courtroom drama, the actors did well with their roles, and though I'm biased, I liked it well enough, and it kept me excited throughout.

    Afterwards, I looked online and searched for some movie reviews, and saw that Roger Ebert himself reviewed upon its release, though he panned it. Gave it one and a half stars, and called my Great Uncle Stanley's script "written ineptly." Oh well. I had a good time, and I have a small piece of my family history in my hands now.
    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!
    9herbqedi

    Top-notch detective yarn improves with age

    Peppard is ideally cast as inflexibly hard-nosed cop who gets sucked through the looking-glass when indicted for his cheating wife's murder. Charles McGraw and Richard Kiley are both magnificent in the key supporting roles. Dana Elcar and Isabel Sanford also add poignantly amusing support. Director George Schaeffer's pacing and choice of score is perfect for the genre. And, many of the key ironies are even more appropriate today than when the film was made. Very highly recommended.
    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.
    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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