Diamonds (film)

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For alternate meanings, see Diamond (disambiguation). For the other film, see Diamonds (1999 film).
Diamonds
Directed by Menahem Golan
Produced by Yoram Globus
Menahem Golan
Written by Menahem Golan
David Paulsen
Starring Robert Shaw
Richard Roundtree
Barbara Hershey
Shelley Winters
Music by Roy Budd
Cinematography Adam Greenberg
Editing by Dov Hoenig
Distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date(s) Flag of the United States October 22, 1975
Running time 120 min.
Country Israel / USA
Language English
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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 entitled Diamond Shaft, though it has no relation to the Shaft films other than having Roundtree in the cast.

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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. This movie was NOT filmed in Reno Nevada, there is another movie titled the same.

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