Victory at Entebbe
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| Written by | Ernest Kinoy |
| Directed by | Marvin J. Chomsky |
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| Theme music composer | Charles Fox |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | David L. Wolper |
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| Location(s) | Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California |
| Cinematography | Jim Kilgore |
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| Running time | 119 min. |
| Production company(s) | David L. Wolper Productions |
| Distributor | ABC Entertainment Group |
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| Original network | ABC |
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Victory at Entebbe is a 1976 American made-for-television action-drama film for broadcast on ABC, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. The film starred Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Dreyfuss and Kirk Douglas, and was Julius Harris portrayed Idi Amin, following the fatal heart attack suffered by the actor originally cast in the role, Godfrey Cambridge.
Victory at Entebbe is based on an actual event Operation Entebbe the July 4, 1976 raid on Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda and the the freeing of Israeli hostages. The first of three films based on the Entebbe Raid, Raid on Entebbe (1977) and Operation Thunderbolt (1977) soon followed.
On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece.
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