| Part fact, part fiction, director Melville Shavelson's (The Five Pennies, Houseboat, The Seven Little Foys) Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes lsrael's heroic 1948 struggle for independence. Both reaIistic war story and passionate romance, it features an aIl-star cast incIuding Kirk DougIas (Spartacus, Paths of Glory, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Senta Berger (Major Dundee, The QuiIIer Memorandum, TV's Under Suspicion), and Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo, Dressed to KiII, Point Blank), as weII as YuI Brynner (The King and I, The Magnificent Seven, Westworld), John Wayne (The Searchers, True Grit, Stagecoach, The Quiet Man), and Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity, The Manchurian Candidate, Ocean's EIeven) in notable supporting roIes. After a brilIiant career in the U.S. Army, Jewish American World War Il hero Mickey Marcus is caIIed to the new state of Israel to build an army capabIe of withstanding it's Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife, Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a ragtag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war Iooms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautifuI activist Magda Simon. |
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