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Victory at Entebbe

Year:

1976

Duration:

119 min

Genres:

Action | Drama | History | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.1

Director:

Marvin J. Chomsky

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1976-12-13

Filming Locations: Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Bibi Besch

Helmut Berger

Wilfried Böse

Linda Blair

Chana Vilnofsky

Kirk Douglas

Hershel Vilnofsky

Richard Dreyfuss

Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Helen Hayes

Etta Grossman-Wise

Burt Lancaster

Shimon Peres

Elizabeth Taylor

Edra Vilnofsky

Theodore Bikel

Yakov Shlomo

David Groh

Benjamin Wise

Anthony Hopkins

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

Christian Marquand

Captain Dukas

Jessica Walter

Nomi Haroun

Harris Yulin

General Dan Shomron

Allan Miller

Nathan Haroun

Julius Harris

President Idi Amin

Stefan Gierasch

General Mordecai Gur

David Sheiner

Aaron Olav

Severn Darden

Moshe Meyer

Ben Hammer

Yaakobi

Anthony James

Gamal Fahmy

Victor Mohica

Jaif

Samantha Harper

Nan Peyser

Philip Sterling

Colonel Bar-Lev

Erica Yohn

Belgian Woman

Lilyan Chauvin

French Nun

Miriam Byrd-Nethery

Nun's Ward

Zitto Kazann

Peruvian

Jessica St. John

Parisienne

Kristina Wayborn

Claudine

Austin Stoker

Dr. Ghota

Dimitri Logothetis

Young Soldier

Jenny Maybrook

Captain Abi

Than Wyenn

Rabin's Aide

Eunice Christopher

Israeli Intelligence Worker

Pitt Herbert

Passenger #1

Barbara Carney

Passenger #2

Michael Mullins

Aryeh

Vera Mandell

Young Mother

Paul Bradley

Man in Photo Behind Rabin (uncredited)

David Lawrence

Passenger (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

David Warner was attached to this project at one point.

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The raid took place on July 4th, 1976 on the 200th anniversary of the United States. There were many Americans on the flight.

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Actor Godfrey Cambridge was selected to the play the role of Gen. Idi Amin Dada, but died on the set from a heart attack early in the filming. Julius Harris took over the part.

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Goofs

Shimon Peres continually mispronounces Yonatan Netanyahu's nickname. It's Yoni with a long o to rhyme with Joanie. He pronounces it to rhyme with Johnny.

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The footage used to depict flight 139 on the ground shows a plane with the test color scheme Air France adopted only on its Airbus A300 (light blue line under the windows). All the other scenes show the older Air France colors (navy cheat-line on the windows).

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The aircraft is an Airbus A300, accurately depicted with the passenger cabin and exterior shots, but the flight deck is from a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, with its very distinctive autopilot console and flight engineer panel showing three engine switches (the A300 has two engines).

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Quotes

Hershel Vilnofsky: Edra? Edra? Where are you? Edra... you heard it on the radio?

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Benjamin Wise: Mother, you have a British passport. You stay with the others!

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Benjamin Wise: Mother, you have to sit around for the take-off.

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