Straightforward, realistic espionage film

production photographed entirely on location in Spain

Kelly McGillis and Jeff Daniels in The House on Carroll Street (1988)

Brian Keith and Helmut Griem in The McKenzie Break (1970)

John Hurt and Laura del Sol in The Hit (1984)

Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, and Debra Paget in Tales of Terror (1962)

Robert Duvall and Arliss Howard in The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996)

Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde in So Long at the Fair (1950)

Constance Bennett, Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Hurd Hatfield, and Audrey Totter in The Unsuspected (1947)

Robert Mitchum, Frédéric O'Brady, Geneviève Page, and Ingrid Thulin in Foreign Intrigue (1956)

I believe that it is not only our right but our duty to bring Eichmann to trial in Israel. By doing this, we demonstrate that this man's crimes are not just directed against the Jews; they were directed against ALL humanity.

Topol in The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)

Martin Balsam and Janet Suzman in The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)

Martin Balsam in The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)

Topol

Nick Mancuso

Janet Suzman

Isser Harel

Steve Shagan

A true-life political thriller that dramatizes the 1960 capture in Argentina of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, by the Israelis.

Peter Collinson

The House on Garibaldi Street

Worth seeing; clunky production

I&apos;ve seen a couple of films from Israel like this-they seem to be so fearful of overstating their case that anything other than straight-ahead recording of given reality will detract from authenticity, or believability, or...authoritative presentation of the FACTS. Would it kill them to make a film that&apos;s well-written and slickly produced? This looks like a real low-budget job, like something from the History channel, but with unusually good acting. When Isser Harel goes to Ben-Gurion to get the Go-ahead for pulling off the Eichmann snatch, it&apos;s shot with one camera, and the script makes sure Harel identifies the prime minister twice for the benefit of the audience(All right all ready, some of us out here know who Ben-Gurion was!). Fortunately, there was enough suspense built in to the actual operation so that the filmmakers couldn&apos;t squander ALL of it. In the film&apos;s favor, there are enough solid details, decent performances, and convincing location sequences(Heck, all of it seems to have been shot on location in Argentina!) to give it the look, at least, of a documentary, so it could be worse. Five years after this film came out, we got The Little Drummer Girl. I suspect that some sections of this film were models for the later one, so maybe I&apos;m not considering some of the elements that were shown first in Garibaldi Street,and have influenced later films. OK, taking that into consideration, It&apos;s worth seeing, but it could have been done better.

I've seen a couple of films from Israel like this-they seem to be so fearful of overstating their case that anything other than straight-ahead recording of given reality will detract from authenticity, or believability, or...authoritative presentation of the FACTS. Would it kill them to make a film that's well-written and slickly produced? This looks like a real low-budget job, like something from the History channel, but with unusually good acting. When Isser Harel goes to Ben-Gurion to get the Go-ahead for pulling off the Eichmann snatch, it's shot with one camera, and the script makes sure Harel identifies the prime minister twice for the benefit of the audience(All right all ready, some of us out here know who Ben-Gurion was!). Fortunately, there was enough suspense built in to the actual operation so that the filmmakers couldn't squander ALL of it. In the film's favor, there are enough solid details, decent performances, and convincing location sequences(Heck, all of it seems to have been shot on location in Argentina!) to give it the look, at least, of a documentary, so it could be worse. Five years after this film came out, we got The Little Drummer Girl. I suspect that some sections of this film were models for the later one, so maybe I'm not considering some of the elements that were shown first in Garibaldi Street,and have influenced later films. OK, taking that into consideration, It's worth seeing, but it could have been done better.

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