Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
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Hill 24 Doesn't Answer the first feature film produced in Israel, is a 1955 Israeli war film
directed by Thorold Dickinson
. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival
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War film
War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...
directed by Thorold Dickinson
Thorold Dickinson
Thorold Barron Dickinson was a British film director, screenwriter, producer, and Britains's first university Professor of Film.-Early life and career:...
. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival
1955 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Marcel Pagnol *Marcel Achard *Juan Antonio Bardem *A. Dignimont *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Leopold Lindtberg *Anatole Litvak *Isa Miranda *Leonard Mosley...
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Cast
- Edward MulhareEdward MulhareEdward Mulhare was a popular television actor whose career spanned four decades.Born at 22 Quaker Road, Cork City, County Cork, Ireland, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers, Mulhare intended to study medicine, but was sidetracked by a growing interest in acting...
- James Finnegan - Michael WagerMichael WagerMichael Wager is an American film and television actor.He appeared in the war film, Hill 24 Doesn't Answer, and he appeared in a recurring role, as Jonas Roving, on the soap opera "Ryan's Hope".-Personal life:...
- Allan Goodman - Margalit Oved - Esther Hadassi
- Arik LavieArik LavieArik Lavie was an Israeli actor and Pop-Rock-Folk singer.His career started in the military band of the Palmach, in 1945. Since then, he participated in many theater plays and some movies Arik Lavie (Hebrew: אריק לביא, born in 1927, Leipzig, died in 2004, Petah Tikva) was an Israeli actor and...
- David Airam (as Arich Lavi) - Michael Shillo - Capt. Yehuda Berger
- Haya HarareetHaya HarareetHaya Harareet , sometimes credited as Haya Hararit, is an Israeli actress.Harareet began her career in Israeli films with Hill 24 Doesn't Answer , but her most widely seen performance in international cinema was as Esther in Ben Hur opposite Charlton Heston. She also starred in Edgar G. Ulmer's...
- Miriam Miszrahi - Eric Greene - Agent Browning
- Stanley Preston - Chief British Agent Lawson
- Haim Eynav - Ya'acov, young soldier
- Zalman Lebiush - The Rabbi
- Azaria Rapaport - German Mercenary (Former Nazi)
- Abraham Barzilai - U.N. Arab Official
- Shoshana Damari - Miriam's Druze Friend
- Shoshana Duer - Hospital Matron
- Shraga Friedman - Travel Agent
- Leon Gilboa - U.N. French Official
- David Hershkovitz - Street Vendor
- Burton Most - U.N. American Official
- David Ram - U.N. Israeli Official
- Ruth Rappaport - Hospital Nurse
- Mati Raz - Levin, the interpreter
- Yossi Yadin - Israeli Commander At Jerusalem Wall
- Arie Zeidmann - Itzik'l