ID

FBW000674      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1961

Original Title

Operation Eichmann

Directed by

Robert G. Springsteen

Produced by

Bischoff Diamond Corporation; for Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Staff

Producer: Samuel Bischoff, David Diamond; Production manager: Maurie M. Suess; Assistent director: Maurie M. Suess; Continuity: Bobbie Sierks; Script: Lester Cole (als: Lewis Copley); Camera: Joseph Biroc; Special optical effects: Charles Duncan; Gaffer: Don Carstensen; Editing: Roy Livingston; Sound: Charles Schelling, Marty Greco; Sound recording: Art Smith; Mixing: Charles Althouse; Art direction: Rudi Feld; Technical direction: Howard Reed (Construction supervision); Set decoration: George Sawley; Props: Max Frankel, Allen Gordon; Wardrobe: Wally Harton, Rose Rockne; Makeup: Anthony Lloyd; Haidressing: Irene Beshon; Music: Alex Alexander, June Starr; Musical direction: Mischa Terr; Orchestration: Herbert Doerfel; Songs: Franz Steininger ("Es muss nur der Richtige kommen" ("The Right One Must Come Along")), Gustav Heimo ("Es muss nur der Richtige kommen" ("The Right One Must Come Along")); Lyrics: Franz Steininger ("Es muss nur der Richtige kommen" ("The Right One Must Come Along")), Gustav Heimo ("Es muss nur der Richtige kommen" ("The Right One Must Come Along")); Singing: Sholom Katz (Kantor / "The Prayer")

Cast

Werner Klemperer (Adolf Eichmann); Ruta Lee (Anna Kemp); Donald Buka (David); Barbara Turner (Sara); John Banner (Rudolf Hoess); Hanna Landy (Frau Hoess); Lester Fletscher (Kurt Kessner); Steve Gravers (Jacob); Jim Baird (David as a boy); Debbie Cannon (Sara as a girl); Jackie Russo (Jacob as a boy); Paul Thierry (Lopez); Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. (Sanchez); Norbert Schiller (Uri Goldmann); Luis Van Rooten (Heinrich Himmler); Oscar Beregi, Jr. (Chief of Police, Kuwait); Theodore Marcuse (Felsner); Otto Reichow (Rostich); Walter Linden (Eishmann's Driver); Hans Hermann (Hans); Eric Braeden (Klaus); Robert Christopher (Ben, Pilot); Carl Lucerne (Cafe Singer); Austin Green; Robert H. Harris; Jonathan Kidd; Norbert Meisel

Length

92'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 07 Mar 1961: Copyright LP18565
- 15 Mar 1961: US release date

Abstract

Two Israeli agents, David and Jacob, both survivors of the Holocaust, are assigned to arrest Adolf Eichmann. When they disagree on whether he should be killed or captured, Eichmann escapes to a port in Kuwait. Israeli agents force Eichmann to move on, and he takes refuge in Argentina, where his mistress Anna Klemp joins him. Meanwhile the Nazi underground, led by Kurt Kessner, has decided that Eichmann is to be eliminated for disobeying orders. Before they can succeed, however, David and Jacob capture Eichmann and fly him to Israel to to stand trial for his crimes against humanity. This film was padded with WWII newsreel footage and was released while Eichmann was awaiting trial in Israel.

Subject Terms

Argentina; Barcelona-; Eichmann-Entführung; Eichmann trial; Kuwait

Distributor

Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (initially)

Bibliography

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