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Diamonds is a american film of genre Drama directed by Menahem Golan released in USA on 22 october 1975 with Robert Shaw
Diamonds (1975)
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Add to a movie listDiamonds 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.
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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.Actors
Robert Shaw
(Charles / Earl Hodgson)
Richard Roundtree
(Archie)
Barbara Hershey
(Sally)
Shelley Winters
(Zelda Shapiro)
Yosef Shiloach
(Mustafa)
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