Hill 24 Doesn't Answer

Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
Film poster
Directed by	Thorold Dickinson
Produced by	Thorold Dickinson and Peter Frye
Written by	Zvi Kolitz Peter Frye
Starring	Edward Mulhare
Music by	Paul Ben Haim
Cinematography	Gerald Gibbs
Edited by	Joanna Dickinson Thorold Dickinson
Release dates	2 November 1955
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Israel
Language	English/Hebrew[1]

Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (Hebrew: Giv'a 24 Eina Ona‎), the first feature film produced in Israel, is a 1955 Israeli war film directed by Thorold Dickinson. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] The plot revolves around the personal stories of a number of soldiers who are on their way to defend a strategic hill overlooking the road to Jerusalem.

Cast

• Edward Mulhare as James Finnegan
• Michael Wager as Allan Goodman
• Margalit Oved as Esther Hadassi
• Arik Lavie as David Airam (as Arich Lavi)
• Michael Shillo as Capt. Yehuda Berger
• Haya Harareet as Miriam Miszrahi
• Eric Greene as Agent Browning
• Stanley Preston as Chief British Agent Lawson
• Haim Eynav as Ya'acov, young soldier
• Zalman Lebiush as The Rabbi
• Azaria Rapaport as German Mercenary (Former Nazi)
• Abraham Barzilai as U.N. Arab Official
• Shoshana Damari as Miriam's Druze Friend
• Shoshana Duer as Hospital Matron
• Shraga Friedman as Travel Agent
• Leon Gilboa as U.N. French Official
• David Hershkovitz as Street Vendor
• Burton Most as U.N. American Official
• David Ram as U.N. Israeli Official
• Ruth Rappaport as Hospital Nurse
• Mati Raz as Levin, the interpreter
• Yossi Yadin as Israeli Commander At Jerusalem Wall
• Arie Zeidmann as Itzik'l

References

1. "Israeli 'Hill 24 Doesn't Answer' at World", New York Times, 3 November 1955
2. "Festival de Cannes: Hill 24 Doesn't Answer". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-01.

External links

• Hill 24 Doesn't Answer at the Internet Movie Database