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Raid on Entebbe

Year:

1977

Duration:

145 min | 121 min (video version)

Genres:

Action | Drama | History

IMDB rate:

6.9

Director:

Irvin Kershner

Awards:

Won Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 8 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1977-01-09

Filming Locations: Stockton Metropolitan Airport, Stockton, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Kim Richards

Allan Arbus

Harlee McBride

Peter Finch

Yitzhak Rabin

Charles Bronson

Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron

Yaphet Kotto

President Idi Amin Jr.

Martin Balsam

Daniel Cooper

Horst Buchholz

Wilfred Boese

John Saxon

Gen. Benny Peled

Jack Warden

Gen. Mordecai Gur

Sylvia Sidney

Dora Bloch

Robert Loggia

Yigal Allon

Tige Andrews

Shimon Peres

Eddie Constantine

Capt. Becaud

David Opatoshu

Menachem Begin

Stephen Macht

Lt. Col. 'Yonni' Netanyahu

James Woods

Capt. Sammy Berg

Harvey Lembeck

Mr. Harvey

Dinah Manoff

Rachel Sager

Aharon Ipalé

Maj. David Grut

Warren J. Kemmerling

Gad Yaakobi (as Warren Kemmerling)

Mariclare Costello

Gabrielle Krieger

Robin Gammell

Mr. Sager

Lou Gilbert

Chaim Bar-Lev

Billy Sands

Mr. Goldbaum

Pearl Shear

Mrs. Loeb

Alex Colon

Terrorist #15

Millie Slavin

Mrs. Sager

René Assa

Terrorist #38

Barbara Allyne Bennet

Relative #1

Anna Berger

Mrs. Berg

Stanley Brock

Israel Gallili

Peter Brocco

Mr. Scharf

Fred Cardoza

Uri Rosen

Lauren Frost

Julie Darin

Larry Gelman

Mr. Berg

Bill Gerber

Nathan Darin

Dov Gottesfeld

Meteorologist

Hanna Hertelendy

Mrs. Gordon

Toian Matchinga

Mrs. Bennett (as Caryn Matchinga)

George Petrie

Chaim Zadok

Louis Quinn

Delegation Member

Tom Rosqui

Amos Eran

Steve Shaw

Jonathan Sager

Martin Speer

Delegation Member

Cynthia Brian

Air France Stewardess (uncredited)

Vincent Di Paolo

Italian Passenger (uncredited)

John Eggett

Israeli Soldier (uncredited)

Luther Fear

Passenger on Hijacked Plane (uncredited)

Martin Garner

Man at Airport (uncredited)

Robert Leh

Israeli Soldier (uncredited)

Rex Steven Sikes

Israeli Soldier (uncredited)

Bruce A. Simon

Airbus Navigator (uncredited)

Roger Til

French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Did you know?

Trivia

As most of this film was shot at the Stockton Airport in California, it's very obvious that the production had the assistance of the California National Guard that has a facility there. The C-130's are all National Guard aircraft. their camouflage being very different from that of Israel. All of the vehicles were of national guard origin. The Ford M5A1 "jeeps" (mutts) were then in use in active military and national guard. In the film both the Israelis and Ugandans were driving them. When the Ugandan reinforcements arrive, they're driving current "deuce and a half" trucks that would only be found in the current US military, Uganda would have most likely had old hand-me-down UK equipment.

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One of 2 American productions based on the event. In This version Yaphet Kotto plays Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. In the other production, "Victory at Entebbe (1976)," Julius Harris plays Idi Amin. Both these actors played the Villains in the James Bond film "Live and Let Die (1973)." Kotto the head villain and Harris his henchman.

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The song sung by the Israeli soldiers on their way to Entebbe and at the end of the movie is Hine Ma Tov, a setting of Psalm 133.

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Goofs

Air France's two-letter airline code is AF, not AR as shown on the flight information screen in Paris.

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Dora Bloch is portrayed by Sylvia Sidney with an American accent. In actual fact, she was an English woman from Liverpool. The story about her being taken to hospital, and disappearing, is unfortunately completely true.

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President Idi Amin is shown driving around Entebbe airport talking on the phone. Among the aircraft in the background are Chinook helicopters, but there were no such helicopters in service with the Ugandan forces.

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Quotes

Yitzhak Rabin: [realising an Air France flight is late] Have we heard anything from the French?

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Capt. Sammy Berg: [discussing a military attack] It'll be the biggest noise to hit Africa since the elephants stampeded.

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Mrs. Berg: Sammy? Where are you going?

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