Two-Minute Warning is a 1976 action thriller film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, and David Janssen.

Police and SWAT team are immediately called in by the stadium manager Sam McKeever (Martin Balsam).

Police Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), working with SWAT team Sergeant Chris Button (John Cassavetes), devises a plan to capture the sniper before the conclusion of the game.

They include Steve and Janet (David Janssen and Gena Rowlands), an argumentative middle-aged couple; Stu Sandman (Jack Klugman), a gambling addict; a Catholic priest (Mitchell Ryan), who is a friend of quarterback Charlie Tyler (Joe Kapp); young married couple Mike and Peggy Ramsay (Beau Bridges and Pamela Bellwood); an elderly pickpocket (Walter Pidgeon) and his young accomplice (Juli Bridges, the then-wife of Beau Bridges); and football fan Al (David Groh), who begins flirting with Lucy (Marilyn Hassett) when he notices her date (Jon Korkes) is more interested in the game than in her.

When released in 1976, Two-Minute Warning was promoted as an entry into the disaster film genre, complete with an all-star cast attempting to survive an immense riot created by the sniper.

Universal Studios devised a gimmick where moviegoers were not allowed to enter the theater at the moment the football game's two-minute warning began in the film.

Another film with a similar disaster-at-the-Super Bowl theme, Black Sunday, was released the following April to decent reviews but poor box office.

Both Palmer and Turner were involved in the creation of the television version of 1974's Earthquake (where the film was expanded by 30 minutes in order to show it over two nights).

"[6] Richard Eder of The New York Times wrote that since the viewer is told nothing about the sniper's character, "the efforts of the police to catch the sniper—all their ladder-climbing and maneuvering—are no more exciting than watching a group of linesmen at work up a telephone pole.

"[8][9] Arthur D. Murphy of Variety noted "above-average plotting, acting and direction, including one of the better mob scenes filmed in many a year.

"[10] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "a taut and terrific thriller" and "an example of superb film craftsmanship.

"[11] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "a middling suspense thriller" with characters "so sketchy and arbitrary that the victims and survivors might as well be determined by flips of the coin.