Today’s movie is a suspense drama
with a scene that happens on May 20. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch
it tonight.
THE HOUSE ON GARIBALDI
STREET
Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion
approves a Mossad operation, led by Isser Harel to kidnap Adolf Eichmann, the
Nazi mass murderer in Argentina. Harel and his team travel to Argentina to
track down Ricardo Klement, who it has been suggested is Eichmann. Unfortunately,
Klement had moved two months ago. Primo, one of the Mossad’s local contacts
goes to Klement’s former residence and gets a lead to Dieter, one of Eichmann’s
sons. The team arranges for a hotel
bellboy to deliver a parcel to Dieter, addressed to another son Nicholas. The
Mossad trails Dieter, but he goes to the dentist and not his house. Michael,
the agent in charge sends the bellboy back to the Klement’s old address and he
learns their new address. Harel learns that Israel has been invited to send a
delegation to Argentina’s 150th
celebration of its independence. A special flight will be sent, on which
Eichmann can be smuggled out of the country. The Mossad finally spots Eichmann.
Harel flies to Argentina to take over the operation. The Mossad rents three houses near Buenos Aires. The Mossad
snatches Eichmann off the streets and take him to a safe house. Dieter Eichmann
contacts other local Nazis for help in recovering his father. The Israeli
agents watching Eichmann are conflicted as they want to kill him instead of
taking him back for trial. The Israeli special plane arrives. Meanwhile Michael
interrogates Eichmann about the Holocaust. Michael thinks they are on the verge
of being caught by the police and that they should kill Eichmann while they
can. They disguise Eichmann as an
Israeli mechanic injured in an accident. A policeman in the pay of the Nazis tries to stop the takeoff,
but they convince the airport officials to let the flight take off on May 20,
1960 [1:26:55 to 1:36:34] The plane returns to Israel, where Eichmann was tried
, found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed.
An interesting film. However, for some reason as often
happens in adaptations of books major plot points were altered, for no good
reason that I can see. The book is a page turner and has a high suspense level.
I see no reason a straight adaptation could not have been done.
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy
Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2009) at page 288 and the film at 1:27:00 give the date of
departure
Director - Peter Collinson
Producer - Mort Abrahams
Screenplay - Steve Shagan and Isser Harel
Runtime- 1 hour 38 minutes
Released - May 28, 1979
Starring –
Topol as Michael
Nick Mancuso as Ari
Janet Suzman as Hedda
Martin Balsam as Isser Harel
John Bennett as
Aaron Lazar
Leo McKern as David Ben-Gurion
Charles Gray as Gen.
Lischke
Derren Nesbitt as Arthur Lubinsky
Alfred Burke as Adolf Eichmann
John Cater as Doctor
Edward Judd as Meged
Wolf Kahler as Real Estate Agent
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