For alternate meanings, see Diamond (disambiguation). For the other film, see Diamonds (1999 film).

Diamonds
Directed by	Menahem Golan
Produced by	Yoram Globus Menahem Golan
Written by	Menahem Golan David Paulsen
Starring	Robert Shaw Richard Roundtree Barbara Hershey Shelley Winters
Music by	Roy Budd
Cinematography	Adam Greenberg
Editing by	Dov Hoenig
Distributed by	AVCO Embassy Pictures Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date(s)	October 22, 1975
Running time	120 min.
Country	Israel / USA
Language	English

Diamonds is a 1975 Israeli-American heist film. Robert Shaw stars in a dual role as twin brothers. Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey and Shelley Winters are co-stars. The film was also entitled Diamond Shaft, though it has no relation to the Shaft films other than having Roundtree in the cast.

[edit] Plot

Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, a heist expert, and Sally. He also becomes acquainted with an American woman, Zelda Shapiro, who is in Israel looking for a new husband.

[edit] Cast

• Robert Shaw as Charles Hodgson/Earl Hodgson
• Richard Roundtree as Archie
• Barbara Hershey as Sally (credited as Barbara Seagull)
• Shelley Winters as Zelda Shapiro

[edit] External links

• Diamonds (1975) at the Internet Movie Database
• Diamonds at Allmovie

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