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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 28855
Released: February 5, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Part fact, part fiction, Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes Israel's heroic 1947-48 struggle for independence. Both realistic war story and passionate romance, it features an all-star cast, including Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger and Angie Dickinson, as well as Yul Brynner, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra in notable supporting roles. After a brilliant career with the U.S. army, WWII hero and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Douglas) is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife (Dickinson), Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a rag-tag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon (Berger).
Description of Cast a Giant Shadow:
Cast a Giant Shadow is based on Ted Berkman's biography of Colonel Mickey Marcus, the American soldier who served as an adviser in the fight to establish the state of Israel in 1948. Marcus (played by Kirk Douglas) must decide whether to settle into peacetime America or follow his more natural, combative instincts abroad--a dilemma symbolized by a love triangle involving wife Angie Dickinson and Senta Berger as a soldier whom he falls for in Palestine. Although lavish and spectacular, especially in the war scenes--filmed in the actual Middle Eastern locations in which they occurred--Cast a Giant Shadow is not entirely authentic. Moreover, in the light of later troubles in the region, not everyone will find heartwarming this depiction of plucky little Israel coping against Arab foes who are barely depicted as human throughout the film. Still, it's an impressive enough relic of epic 1960s cinema, with cameos by Yul Brynner, John Wayne, and Frank Sinatra. --David Stubbs
Cast a Giant Shadow Reviews:
Cast A Giant Shadow 
2009-10-07 - I have always liked this movie & its better on DVD than VHS. I can give that away now. More people should watch the older movies sometimes they are more entertaining than the new ones.
A strange movie about a Jewish war hero 
2009-09-01 - In the American army as a Jew he only got so high, but
they made him a top general in Israel in 1948.
His trick of using jeep mounted antiaircraft guns
to defeat the Egyptian tanks shows you why.
The new road he build to Jerusalem is real history.
Micky Marcus is an American Jew who hasn't
been given his due in history?
Everyone thought Israel was through
before they began in 1948!
Good History...so so acting 
2009-07-13 - This DVD is a good overview of the birth of modern Israel. The best actor in the movie is Senta Berger. Angie Dickenson is bit saccharin. Kirk Douglas is overly melodramatic. Yule Brenner is fine. Frank makes a nice cameo. What the movie does well...and very well...is the story about the Jewish struggle for a homeland. I rate it as something that all should view...at least once.
GREAT MOVIE
2009-07-03 - I grew up 4 blocks from where this guy lived in Brooklyn. Great neighborhood in Flatbush, all private homes.
True story.
Wonderful movie.
Kirk Douglas is one of the ALL TIME GREATEST actors in history.
Anything Kirk is in is GOOD, including this movie.
The birth of Israels first General in 2,000 years was an American.
God bless America, and Israel.
Had to copy to view
2009-04-29 - The initial DVD was coded in such a manner that I had to copy it to view it. Very unsatisfactory product!!!!!!!!!
