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Bookmark this pageThe House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
Director: Peter Collinson
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From Time Out Film Guide
Topol as an Israeli secret agent kidnapping Nazi Eichmann from Buenos Aires? The mind boggles. In fact the problems of this humourless piece of faction (made for TV) are elementary: since the real raid (in the '60s) was a perfect success (ending in Eichmann's trial and execution in Israel), the possibilities for action and suspense are severely limited; the acting is often comic; the plot remains juvenile. What survives surprisingly well is a lack of pretension and a workmanlike sense of limitations which, at times - the nighttime kidnapping scene, for example - even generates a mood of gritty low-budget energy.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Collinson
Producer: Mort Abrahams
Cast: Topol, Nick Mancuso, Janet Suzman, Martin Balsam, Leo McKern, Charles Gray, Derren Nesbitt, Alfred Burke full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 101 mins
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