The madefortv film victory at entebbe, which somehow managed to get shot, edited, and aired within five months of the july 4, 1976 event, is the first of three films on the subject. A similar production on the entebbe raid, victory at entebbe was rushed through production by abc and broadcast one month earlier in december 1976. An air france airplane is hijacked by the plo due the large number of israeli and jewish passengers. This tv movie begins when arab terrorists capture a civilian airliner and force a landing at entebbe. Ugandan president idi amin struts about at the airport, insisting that he can do nothing. Victory at entebbe soundtrack details home explore movies explore composers resource directory forums contact us about us search on. Victory at entebbe is an english movie directed by marvin j. Not to be confused with 1976 s victory at entebbe which also happens to feature a similarly impressive cast that includes kirk douglas, richard dreyfuss, anthony hopkins, burt lancaster and elizabeth taylor raid on entebbe is a golden globewinning tv movie from the empire strikes back director irvin kershner that recounts the 1976. The other two, raid on entebbe 1977 and operation thunderbolt. With helmut berger, linda blair, kirk douglas, richard dreyfuss. Victory at entebbe movie 1976 clip video dailymotion. This movie had anthony hopkins, elizabeth taylor, burt lancaster, richard dreyfuss, julius harris, helmut berger, linda blair, kirk douglas, helen hayes in the lead roles of the film. Victory at entebbe tv movie 1976 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Con assaf dayan, klaus kinski, gila almagor, yehoram gaon.
Heres a promo for the made for tv movie victory at entebee. Operation entebbe and the freeing of israeli hostages at entebbe airport now entebbe international airport in uganda. With peter finch, charles bronson, yaphet kotto, martin. Victory at entebbe manufactured on demand, mono sound on.
Victory at entebbe has the look and feel of a movie put together in about 10 days. Victory at entebbe telecasted on december, 1976 scarce anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty wrote dr. It suffers a bit from the faults of being shot so quickly, in a studio, and on videotape later transferred to film. Victory at entebbe wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. A week earlier, on 27 june, an air france airbus a300 jet airliner with 248 passengers had been hijacked by two members of the popular.
An allstar cast, most of the bigname actors spend their time chewing up. In victory at entebbe 1976, julius harris played president idi amin, jr yaphet kotto played amin in this movie. This is one of two american productions based on the event. Watch victory at entebbe tv movie 1976 movie streaming. Barnes, victory at entebbe is a poor quality, thirdrate, and hastilyprepared film. The story begins when arab terrorist capture a civilian airliner and force a landing at entebbe. One week later, israel staged a stunningly successful commando raid to free the hostages, and the rescue is commandingly chronicled in this allstar, madefortv account. Victory at entebbe is a 1976 american madefortelevision actiondrama film for broadcast on abc, directed by marvin j. Anthony hopkins, burt lancaster, elizabeth taylor, richard dreyfuss, kirk douglas, helen hays, linda blair and jessica walter. An allstar cast, most of the bigname actors spend their time chewing up the scenery and overacting. The film recounts the events and response of the israeli government along with the controversy that the rescue stirred. On june 27, 1976, an air france jet carrying largely jewish and israeli passengers was hijacked by palestinian terrorists and harbored by a supportive ugandan regime. The hijacking of the air france flight 9 and rescue of hostages at entebbe in 1976 had all the right spice and human drama to inspire more than 15 u. Raid on entebbe tv movie 1976 imdb directed by irvin kershner.
Within months after the spectacular july 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from ugandas entebbe airport, there were two competing tv movies on the subject. Kotto played the head villain, and harris was his henchman. Victory at entebbe is a madefortelevision film from 1976 based on an actual event. Victory at entebbe is based on the actual event operation entebbe, the raid on entebbe airport now entebbe international airport in uganda and the freeing of israeli hostages on july 4, 1976. The sets seem deliberately amateurish, creating the image that were. The sets seem deliberately amateurish, creating the image that were watching a play being performed on a stage, not a real motion picture. Chomsky, helmut berger, linda blair, kirk douglas september 21, 2019 an air france airplane is hijacked by the p. Victory at entebbe is a 1976 american madefortelevision actiondrama film for broadcast on. She was killed by the israel defense forces in entebbe, uganda, during operation entebbe. It was a 1976 attempt to portray a 1976 historical event for a 1976 television audience. The film starred helmut berger, linda blair, anthony hopkins, burt. Victory at entebbe, dvd, manufactured on demand, mono sound, action adventure, war drama, 883316629123. Operation entebbe or operation thunderbolt was a successful counterterrorist hostage rescue mission carried out by commandos of the israel defense forces idf at entebbe airport in uganda on 4 july 1976. Reconstruction of the events that followed the hijacking on june 27 1976 of the air france passenger plane en route for paris from athens up to and including.
Victory at entebbe wikipedia, the free encyclopedia victory at entebbe is a madefortelevision film from 1976 based on an actual event. Minutes after departing athens on june 27, 1976, air france flight 9 was commandeered by. In 1976, terrorists hijack an air france airplane, and divert it to. Operation entebbe was a counterterrorist hostagerescue mission carried out by commandos of the israel defense forces idf at entebbe airport in uganda on 4 july 1976. Victory at entebbe 1976 israeli commandos raid ugandas airport in 1976 to free hostages from palestinianterrorist hijackers. The longest and least of the two was victory at entebbe, hurriedly shot on videotape. It was the first of three films made in the 1970s based on the entebbe raid. Raid on entebbe focuses on the basic facts of the rescue of hostages held in uganda. Helmut berger and bibi besch in victory at entebbe 1976. The airport is ugandas main airport and is situated near the capital city of kampala, uganda. Israeli commandos raid ugandas airport in 1976 to free hostages from palestinianterrorist hijackers. Operation entebbe and the freeing of israeli hostages at entebbe airport now.
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