Watch Evening in Byzantium (1978) Free Online

Release Date: 1978

Cast: Vince Edwards, Harry Guardino, Glenn Ford, Michael Cole, Gregory Sierra, Shirley Jones, Edward James Olmos, Eddie Albert, Erin Gray, Patrick Macnee

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Political Thriller, Drama Film

Evening in Byzantium is a 1978 television movie produced by Glen A. Larson Productions and Universal Television, and directed by Jerry London, about the Cannes Film Festival being overtaken by terrorists. It stars Glenn Ford, Vince Edwards, Shirley Jones, Eddie Albert and Erin Gray, with Edward James Olmos in a bit role. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. Evening in Byzantium was one of the many TV movies, miniseries and other shows syndicated to local independent television stations in the USA as part of a project known as Operation Prime Time, in an... MORE

Evening in Byzantium is a 1978 television movie produced by Glen A. Larson Productions and Universal Television, and directed by Jerry London, about the Cannes Film Festival being overtaken by terrorists. It stars Glenn Ford, Vince Edwards, Shirley Jones, Eddie Albert and Erin Gray, with Edward James Olmos in a bit role. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. Evening in Byzantium was one of the many TV movies, miniseries and other shows syndicated to local independent television stations in the USA as part of a project known as Operation Prime Time, in an effort to compete with the major broadcast networks. Famous motion picture producer and writer Jesse Craig (Glenn Ford) attends a film festival on the French Riviera. He has not been actively making films for a few years and some in the film industry think he has retired, but he comes to the Riviera with a new screenplay to show it to his friend and film/literary agent Brian Murphy (Eddie Albert) who is attending the festival. The screenplay is a cautionary tale about terrorists attacking major cities in the United States using high jacked commercial airliners containing nuclear bombs as the attack LESS