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Juggernaut
1974 · Film · 109 min
Directed by Richard Lester
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Inspired by real events.
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Maybe the movie Juggernaut (1974), but where its writers got the idea, who knows.
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3957/what-was-the-first-movie-to-introduce-blue-wire-or-red-wire-bomb-disposal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WireDilemma
This is so close to the plot of the movie Juggernaut[1], and occurred only 4 years after the movie's release -- I can't help but wonder if the bomber was inspired by the plot. That movie had bombs (on a ship, not a casino) with multiple triggering mechanisms: some behind flathead screws, movement switches, photoelectric detectors/triggers. So similar. A really good movie, by the way.
1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071706/
I can't help but think that the bomb maker was inspired by the movie Juggernaut[1], which came out just a few years before this event. In that movie, the bomb maker designed and built-in several layers of booby-traps, including vibration switches, layers of detonation circuits, etc. as was used here. Not a bad movie, FWIW.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071706/