Diamonds (film)
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- For alternate meanings, see Diamond (disambiguation). For the other film, see Diamonds (1999 film).
Diamonds | |
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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) | 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.
[edit] Plot
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.
[edit] Cast
- Robert Shaw as Charles Hodgson/Earl Hodgson
- Richard Roundtree as Archie
- Barbara Hershey as Sally (credited as Barbara Seagull)
- Shelley Winters as Zelda Shapiro