Product Details

• Actors: Topol, Nick Mancuso, Janet Suzman, Martin Balsam, Leo McKern
• Directors: Peter Collinson
• Writers: Steve Shagan, Isser Harel
• Producers: Charles B. Bloch, Charles W. Fries, Chris Christenberry, Mort Abrahams, Steve Shagan
• Format: NTSC, Color
• Language: English, Spanish
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: U.S.A. Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 20, 1989
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301413067
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,835 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superb film, April 12, 2010

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This review is from: The House on Garibaldi Street [VHS] (VHS Tape)

THE HOUSE ON GARIBALDI STREET(1979) Directed by Peter Collinson. Based on the book by Isser Harel.
Starring Topol, Nick Mancuso, Martin Balsam, Leo McKern(as David Ben-Gurion), Charles Gray, John Cater, Edward Judd, Gareth Hunt and Alfred Burke as Adolph Eichmann.
The docudrama style story of Israel's tracking down, capture and smuggling out of Argentina one of the achitects of the Final Solution SS Colonel Adolph Eichmann.
This is the type of history that 70s telefilms did so well and this film is no exception. Straight forward, factual---as far as I know---and well acted by one of those great casts of familiar faces that one does not get anymore. It is interesting that the film can tell a story set in 1960 with the cars and clothes of the era with little effort while today they would probably have to cgi everything up the wazoo.
A very likable film with one caveat that soured me towards the film somewhat near the end. There is a conversation between two Mossad agents about the Six Million Jews killed by the Nazis and how no one cared etc etc etc and I found it an extremely unwise scene since we have two characters going on about how no one cared about the Six million Jews the Nazis killed yet not once does the film acknowledge that the Nazis killed Twelve million people...the other six that these two Jewish characters and the film do not care about. Let alone the several million Armenian Christians murdered by Moslims during World War One and the six million killed by Lenin and the 20 by Stalin. The film's attitude is that terribly destructive one that genocide is when Nazis kill Jews....which immediately gives everyone else a free pass to start genociding away as long as they do not march to the Fuhrer and invade the Soviet Union. A lesson our Muslim friends have been quick to discern.
That said. I found this a good viewing experience and decent history. Topol, Balsam, Gray and McKern are very good. Burke could be better as Eichmann. I think the film was afraid of allowing him to be too powerful a character but dramatically it leaves the last section of the film a little limp.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A story that needs not to be forgotten, August 11, 2011

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LisaMC "Lover of Books" (East Central IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The House on Garibaldi Street [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a short review. The title needs to be on DVD, because it is a story that needs to be told and retold and to be available in the latest media.