Victory at Entebbe (TV),
USA 1976, color

with Elizabeth Taylor

Distributed by:	Warner Columbia
Produced by:	David L. Wolper
Genre / keyword:	Drama / action / hijacking
Runtime:	130
Directed by:	Marvin Chomsky
Summary:	An Air France airplane is hijacked by the PLO due the large number of Israeli and Jewish passengers. We follow the action both with the hostages as they cope with confinement and threatened death, and the Israeli cabinet and military that must try to get them out. Douglas had previously said he would not do cameos but this tribute to Israeli inventiveness and resolve, he made an exception. The movie celebrated the brilliantly successful Israeli commando raid on the airport in Entebbe, Uganda, In July of 1976, in which hostages held by Palestinian hijackers were rescued. Among them were more than one hundred Jews. A number of top stars made known their willingness to appear in the film, among them Douglas and Elizabeth Taylor, who appeared as Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Vilnofsky. Holocaust survivors who go to Israel from the U.S. to plead with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Anthony Hopkins) to do something to help rescue the hostages, one of whom is their daughter (played by Linda Blair). Burt Lancaster also appeared in the movie (as Shimon Peres) but not in any scenes with Douglas.
Cast (in credits order):	Helmut Berger ... as German Hijacker
	Linda Blair ... as Chana Vilnofsky
	Kirk Douglas ... as Hershel Vilnofsky
	Richard Dreyfuss ... as Colonel Netanyahu
	Helen Hayes ... as Mrs. Wise
	Anthony Hopkins ... as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
	Burt Lancaster ... as Shimon Peres
	Christian Marquand ... as Captain Dukas
	Elizabeth Taylor ... as Edra Vilnofsky
	Bibi Besch ... as German Woman
	Théodore Bikel ... as Yakov
	Julius W. Harris ... as Idi Amin
Written by:	Ernest Kinoy
Photographed by:	James Kilgore
Music by:	Charles Fox
Film Editing by:	David Saxon