CAST A GIANT SHADOW (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1966
• Genre: Adventure; Drama; War
• Plot: 'A highly intelligent spectacular...executed with pace and imagination.' -British Monthly Film Bulletin; ; Part fact, part fiction, Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes Israel's heroic 1947-48 struggle for independence. Both realistic war story and passionate romance, it features an all-star cast including Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger and Angie Dickinson, as well as Yul Brynner, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra in notable supporting roles. After a brilliant career with the U.S. army, WWI hero and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Douglas) is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife (Dickenson), Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a ragtag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon(Berger). FACT FROM THE VAULT Many scenes were shot on the actual sites of the Arab-Israeli battles, while other exteriors were photographed in New York and Washington Interiors were staged in a studio in Rome.
• Cast: Kirk Douglas; Senta Berger; Angie Dickinson; James Donald; Stathis Giallelis; Luther Adler; Topol; Ruth White; Gordon Jackson; Michael Hordern; Allan Cuthbertson; Jeremy Kemp; Sean Barrett; Michael Shillo; Rina Ganor; Roland Bartrop; Robert Gardett; Michael Balston; Claude Aliotti; Samra Dedes; Micha Shagrir; Frank Latimore; Ken Buckle; Rod Dana; Robert Ross; Arthur Hansel; Dan Sturkie; Hillel Rave; Shlomo Hermon; Frank Sinatra; Yul Brynner; John Wayne; Vera Dolen; Gary Merrill; Winston Churchill; Michael Douglas; Rudolf Hess; Fiorello LaGuardia; Danny Perlman; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Jimmy Shaw; Joseph Stalin; Melville Shavelson
• Director: Melville Shavelson
• Runtime: 2:26
• Company: Mirisch Corporation, Bryna Productions, Llenroc Productions, Batjac Productions
• Media Format: Movie