Serial Number: 20837
Title: Man in the Glass Booth, The (1975)
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Country of Origin: US
Genre: Private Gallery - The 70's
Subject: Judaica
Size: 1 SHEET 27x41
Condition: EX
Card Number: N/A
Price: $NOT FOR SALE
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| Actors/Actresses: Maximilian Schell |
| Notes: Director: Arthur Hiller; As the title would suggest, the film is inspired by the famous kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of the Holocaust. However, it is a fictitious and altogether different story. It is about a rich industrialist living in outrageous luxury in present day Manhattan. His name is Arthur Goldman. But is he an ex-Nazi officer pretending to be a Jew in order to escape prosecution, or is he a Jewish concentration camp survivor that pretends to be an ex-Nazi in order to be put on a showcase trial where he hopes to expunge the demons that torment him ever since the war? The movie is based on a novel and play by Robert Shaw, better known to most as the actor who played James Bond’s nemesis in From Russia with Love. Shaw did not like the movie script and requested that his name be removed from the credits and thus the film does not even mention that it’s based on a play, “The Man in the Glass Booth”. The director related that when Show finally saw the finished film he contacted the screenwriter to congratulate him on a job well done, and even requested the Executive Producer to have his name reinstated. However, it was explained to him that it was too late as the prints were already all made. |
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