Diamonds
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.
More details
author | Menahem Golan |
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director | Menahem Golan |
editor | Dov Hoenig |
genre | crime drama |
keywords | diamond security expert tel aviv twin brother |
musicBy | Roy Budd |
producer | Yoram Globus |
publisher | Anchor Bay Entertainment Embassy Pictures |
theme | heist |