Diamonds (1975 film)

Diamonds
Original theatrical poster
Directed by	Menahem Golan Arik Dichner
Written by	Menahem Golan David Paulsen
Produced by	Yoram Globus Menahem Golan
Starring	Robert Shaw Richard Roundtree Barbara Hershey Shelley Winters
Cinematography	Adam Greenberg
Edited by	Dov Hoenig
Music by	Roy Budd
Distributed by	AVCO Embassy Pictures
Release date	October 22, 1975 (1975-10-22) (U.S.)
Running time	120 minutes
Countries	Israel United States
Language	English

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

External links

• Diamonds at IMDb
• Diamonds at Rotten Tomatoes
• Diamonds at the TCM Movie Database
• Diamonds at AllMovie