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Diamonds (1975 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Diamonds' is a 1975 Israeli-American heist film. Robert Shaw stars in a dual role as twin brothers. Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey and Shelley Winters are co-stars. The film was also released as 'Diamond Shaft', although it has no relation to the 'Shaft' films other than having Roundtree in the cast.
Plot
Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, a heist expert, and Sally. He also becomes acquainted with an American woman, Zelda Shapiro, who is in Israel looking for a new husband.
Cast
* Robert Shaw as Charles Hodgson / Earl Hodgson
* Richard Roundtree as Archie
* Barbara Hershey as Sally (credited as Barbara Seagull)
* Shelley Winters as Zelda Shapiro
* Shaike Ophir as Moshe
* Yosef Shiloach as Mustafa
* Gadi Yagil as Gaby
* Yehuda Efroni as Salzburg
See also
* List of American films of 1975
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