Cast a Giant Shadow
| Cast a Giant Shadow | |
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| Directed by | Melville Shavelson |
| Produced by | Melville Shavelson |
| Written by |
Ted Berkman (book) Melville Shavelson (screenplay) |
| Starring |
Kirk Douglas Senta Berger Stathis Giallelis James Donald Yul Brynner Frank Sinatra John Wayne Angie Dickinson Chaim Topol Michael Hordern |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Aldo Tonti |
| Edited by |
Bert Bates Gene Ruggiero |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Release date
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March 30, 1966 |
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Running time
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146 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals) |
Cast a Giant Shadow is a 1966 big-budget action film based on the life of Colonel Mickey Marcus, and stars Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra and Angie Dickinson. Melville Shavelson adapted, produced and directed.
The film is a fictionalized account of the experiences of a real-life Jewish-American military officer, Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, who commanded units of the fledgling Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Marcus is an Army Reserve Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, who was recently released from active duty and is now working in New York City. He is approached by a Haganah agent, Major Safir (James Donald), who requests his assistance in preparing Israeli troops to defend the newly declared State against an invasion by its Arab neighbors.
Marcus is refused permission by the Pentagon to go, unless he travels as a civilian. The Haganah gives him a false passport with the alias "Michael Stone". As "Michael Stone", he arrives in Israel to be met by a Haganah member, Magda Simon (Senta Berger).
Marcus, who parachuted into occupied France during World War II and helped to organize the relief mission for one of the first Nazi concentration camps liberated by American troops, is initially viewed with suspicion by some Haganah soldiers. But after he leads a commando raid on an Arab arms dump and assists in a landing of illegal refugees, he is more accepted. After preparing training manuals for the troops, he returns to New York, where his wife (Angie Dickinson) has suffered a miscarriage.
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