Pendulum (1969 film)

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]

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Plot

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

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

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.