Pendulum (1969 film)

1969 film by George Schaefer

Pendulum

Directed by| George Schaefer
Written by| Stanley Niss
Produced by| Stanley Niss
Starring| George Peppard
Jean Seberg
Richard Kiley
Cinematography| Lionel Lindon
Edited by| Hugh S. Fowler
Music by| Walter Scharf
Color process| Technicolor

Production
company

Pendulum Productions

Distributed by| Columbia Pictures

Release date

* March 21, 1969 (1969-03-21) (New York City)

Running time

| 102 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Pendulum is a 1969 American neo noir crime thriller film directed by George Schaefer and starring George Peppard, Jean Seberg and Richard Kiley.[1]

## Plot

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In Washington, D.C., police captain Frank Matthews's career is on the rise, having just been appointed consultant for a powerful U.S. senator. His domestic life, however, is questionable. He suspects his wife of having an affair with an old flame. One evening, after appearing at a political function in Baltimore, Matthews decides not to return home until the following morning. The next day, he is informed by authorities that his wife has been discovered shot to death while in bed with her lover, who was also killed. Soon, Matthews is made aware that his own colleagues, the police, have made him the prime suspect in the case.

Pendulum also features a side-plot involving a death row inmate, Paul Sanderson, convicted of rape and murder, who is set free due to a legal technicality. Sanderson had been originally tracked down and arrested by Matthews, who views these circumstances as a grave injustice. Ironically, now that Captain Matthews is a suspected murderer, he hires Sanderson's lawyer, Woodrow Wilson King, to represent him. For the remainder of the feature, these two storylines intersect until the film reaches its violent conclusion.

## Cast

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* George Peppard as Capt. Frank Matthews
* Jean Seberg as Adele Matthews
* Richard Kiley as Woodrow Wilson King
* Charles McGraw as Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
* Madeleine Sherwood as Mrs. Eileen Sanderson
* Robert F. Lyons as Paul Martin Sanderson
* Frank Marth as Lt. Smithson
* Marj Dusay as Liz Tennant
* Paul McGrath as Senator Augustus Cole
* Stewart Moss as Richard D'Angelo
* Isabel Sanford as Effie
* Dana Elcar as Det. J.J. 'Red' Thornton
* Harry Lewis as Brooks Elliot
* Mildred Trares as Mary Schumacher
* Robin Raymond as Myra
* Phyllis Hill as Mrs. Wilma Elliot
* S. John Launer as Judge Kinsella
* Jock Mackelvie as U.S. Attorney Grady Butler
* Richard Guizon as Deputy Marshall Jack Barnes
* Jack Grimes as Artie
* Logan Ramsey as Detective Jelinek
* Douglas Henderson as Detective Hanauer
* Gene Boland as Garland

## Legacy

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In 2019, the film is referenced in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, on a movie theater marquee that Sharon Tate walks past just before first seeing her own name on the marquee display of The Wrecking Crew at the Fox Bruin Theater.

## References

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1. ^ Scheruer, Philip (28 April 1968). "Man of Many Emmys Eyes Oscar". Los Angeles Times. p. d18.

## External links

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* Pendulum at IMDb
* Pendulum at TCMDB

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Films directed by George Schaefer

* King Richard II (1954)
* Macbeth (1954)
* Cradle Song (1956)
* Little Moon of Alban (1958)
* Meet Me in St. Louis (1959)
* Berkeley Square (1959)
* A Doll's House (1959)
* Macbeth (1960)
* The Tempest (1960)
* Cradle Song (1960)
* Give Us Barabbas! (1961)
* Time Remembered (1961)
* Victoria Regina (1961)
* Arsenic & Old Lace (1962)
* The Magnificent Yankee (1965)
* Inherit the Wind (1965)
* Barefoot in Athens (1966)
* Saint Joan (1967)
* The Admirable Crichton (1968)
* Elizabeth the Queen (1968)
* Pendulum (1969)
* The File on Devlin (1969)
* Generation (1969)
* Doctors' Wives (1971)
* F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974)
* Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974)
* Amelia Earhart (1976)
* An Enemy of the People (1978)
* First, You Cry (1978)
* Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979)
* The Bunker (1981)
* The People vs. Jean Harris (1981)
* A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)
* Right of Way (1983)
* Stone Pillow (1985)
* Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
* Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988)
* The Man Upstairs (1992)
* Harvey (1996)

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