Directed by:
Arthur HillerCinematography:
Sam LeavittCast:
Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Berry Kroeger, Connie Sawyer, Leonardo Cimino (more)Plots(1)
Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) benevolently rules his financial empire from a penthouse apartment overlooking Manhattan. Seemingly at the edge of sanity, Goldman holds forth on everything from Papal edicts to ex-wives, from baseball to his family's massacre in a Nazi concentration camp. When Goldman remarks on a blue Mercedes continuously parked outside his building, Goldman's captive audience of assistant (Lawrence Pressman) and chauffeur (Henry Brown) dismiss their boss' anxiety as encroaching paranoia. But each of Goldman's passionate, seemingly capricious ravings are transformed into a shocking, inadvertent deposition when Israeli agents capture Goldman and put him on trial as Adolph Dorf, the commandant of the concentration camp where Goldman's family was supposedly exterminated. In a trial scene of unrelenting intensity, Academy Award winner Schell (Judgement at Nuremburg) crafts what The Detroit Free Press called "a white-hot lead performance," mutating from eccentric Goldman to sociopathic Dorf and beyond. The riddle of Dorf's true identity becomes wrapped in an enigma of cunning self-treachery and single minded obsession. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Maximilian Schell
Austria
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Lois Nettleton
USA
Best movies:
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Centennial (1978) (series)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
Lawrence Pressman
USA
Best movies:
The Winds of War (1983) (series)
Kojak: The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973) (TV movie)
Ally McBeal (1997) (series)
Luther Adler
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
House of Strangers (1949)
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Lloyd Bochner
Canada
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Robert H. Harris
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
America, America (1963)
Peyton Place (1957)
Berry Kroeger
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Act of Violence (1948)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Connie Sawyer
USA
Best movies:
...And Justice for All (1979)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
A Hole in the Head (1959)
Leonardo Cimino
USA
Best movies:
V (1983) (TV movie)
The Young Savages (1961)
Moonstruck (1987)
Morris Buchanan
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Hijack! (1973) (TV movie)
Henry Brown
Best movies:
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Kojak: The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973) (TV movie)
Jennifer Lee Pryor
Best movies:
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The Sunshine Boys (1975)
The Violator (1974)