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4.7/10   105 votes
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Director:
Menahem Golan
Writers:
Menahem Golan (writer)
David Paulsen (writer)
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Release Date:
22 October 1975 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
Diamonds Were Forever
User Comments:
DIAMONDS (Menahem Golan, 1975) ** more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Robert Shaw ... Charles / Earl Hodgson

Richard Roundtree ... Archie

Barbara Hershey ... Sally (as Barbara Seagull)

Shelley Winters ... Zelda Shapiro
Joseph Shiloach ... Mustafa
Shaike Ophir ... Moshe
Gadi Yagil ... Gaby (as Gadi Yageel)
Yona Elian ... Zippi (as Jona Elian)
Yehuda Efroni ... Salzburg
Yossi Graber ... Rabinowitz (as Joseph Graber)
Bomba Tzur ... Momo
Aryeh Moskona ... Avram (as Arie Moscona)
Tali Goldberg ... Policewoman
Arik Dichner ... Arik
Chen Plotkin ... Danny Rabinowitz
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Diamond Shaft
Yahlumim (Israel: Hebrew title)
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Runtime:
Israel:120 min | USA:108 min
Country:
Israel | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Jerusalem, Israel more

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Diamonds more

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DIAMONDS (Menahem Golan, 1975) **, 9 February 2008
4/10
Author: MARIO GAUCI (marrod@melita.com) from Naxxar, Malta

Elaborate caper movie which, while nothing special, is redeemed by its unusual Israeli setting. Robert Shaw has a dual role as an industrialist and his security device-maker twin (the karate match between the two Shaws constitutes perhaps the film's low-point!). Ex-con and thief Richard Roundtree (often clad in conspicuously outlandish costumes) and lover Barbara Hershey (billed Barbara Seagull) are industrialist Shaw's unwilling accomplices in a diamond robbery – whose security system was devised by none other than his brother (whom he admits to not liking!). Shelley Winters turns up in irrelevant bits as an annoying American tourist; GET CARTER (1971)'s Roy Budd provides the score. Caper movies are among my favorites (maybe, it's because I work in a bank) but this is a very mild addition to that exciting thriller subgenre – chiefly because of an unconvincing plot also involving child kidnapping, a counter robbery from a church to mislead the Israeli police, the gang donning a series of silly disguises and, ultimately, a burglary which remains unfulfilled (again, a fashionable twist in the cynical 1970s but rather ludicrous in this context!).

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