Diamonds (1975 film)
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Diamonds | |
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Directed by | Menahem Golan Arik Dichner |
Written by | Menahem Golan David Paulsen |
Produced by | Yoram Globus Menahem Golan |
Starring | Robert Shaw Richard Roundtree Barbara Hershey Shelley Winters |
Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
Edited by | Dov Hoenig |
Music by | Roy Budd |
Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Countries | Israel United States |
Language | English |
Diamonds is a 1975 Israeli-American heist film. Robert Shaw stars in a dual role as twin brothers. Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey and Shelley Winters are co-stars. The film was also released as Diamond Shaft, although it has no relation to the Shaft films other than having Roundtree in the cast.
Plot
[edit]Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, a heist expert, and Sally. He also becomes acquainted with an American woman, Zelda Shapiro, who is in Israel looking for a new husband.
Cast
[edit]- Robert Shaw as Charles Hodgson / Earl Hodgson
- Richard Roundtree as Archie
- Barbara Hershey as Sally (credited as Barbara Seagull)
- Shelley Winters as Zelda Shapiro
- Shaike Ophir as Moshe
- Yosef Shiloach as Mustafa
- Gadi Yagil as Gaby
- Yehuda Efroni as Salzburg
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Diamonds at IMDb
- Diamonds at Rotten Tomatoes
- Diamonds at the TCM Movie Database
- Diamonds at AllMovie
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