Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
- israel
- war on terror
- uganda
- based on true story
- terrorism
- hostage situation
- air raid
- military
- operation entebbe
- special ops
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charles Bronson
Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron
Peter Finch
Yitzhak Rabin
Yaphet Kotto
President Idi Amin - Jr.
Martin Balsam
Daniel Cooper
- Horst Buchholz — Wilfred Boese
- John Saxon — Maj. Gen. Benny Peled
- Jack Warden — Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur
- Sylvia Sidney — Dora Bloch
- Robert Loggia — Yigal Allon
- James Woods — Capt. Sammy Berg
- Tige Andrews — Shimon Peres
- Eddie Constantine — Capt. Becaud
- David Opatoshu — Menachem Begin
- Allan Arbus — Eli Melnick
- Stephen Macht — Lt. Col. 'Yonni' Netanyahu
- Directed
- Irvin Kershner
- Written
- Barry Beckerman
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 58 ratings
- Studio
- Edgar J. Scherick Associates, 20th Century Fox Television, NBC
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