The Ambassador (1984)
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Robert Mitchum plays as U.S. ambassador to Israel whose efforts at reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians run afoul of the somewhat questionable ambitions of security advisor Rock Hudson. Meanwhile, Mitchum's wife Ellen Burstyn embarks upon an affair with a PLO leader. When this fact comes to Mitchum's attention, he refuses to pay the prescribed "hush money", sparking a deadly chain reaction. You may need a microscope to discern this, but The Ambassador was adapted from Elmore Leonard's crime novel 52 Pick Up. Though a more faithful-to-the-source cinemazation of the Leonard book was lensed in 1986, The Ambassador remains the better of the two versions. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, (more)
- Director(s):
- J. Lee Thompson
Synopsis of The Ambassador
Robert Mitchum plays as U.S. ambassador to Israel whose efforts at reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians run afoul of the somewhat questionable ambitions of security advisor Rock Hudson. Meanwhile, Mitchum's wife Ellen Burstyn embarks upon an affair with a PLO leader. When this fact comes to Mitchum's attention, he refuses to pay the prescribed "hush money", sparking a deadly chain reaction. You may need a microscope to discern this, but The Ambassador was adapted from Elmore Leonard's crime novel 52 Pick Up. Though a more faithful-to-the-source cinemazation of the Leonard book was lensed in 1986, The Ambassador remains the better of the two versions. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Ambassador
- Robert Mitchum - Ambassador Peter Hacker
- Rock Hudson - Frank Stevenson
- Donald Pleasence - Defense Minister Eretz
- Michael Bat-Adam - Tova
- Uri Gavriel - Assad
- Yosef Shiloah - Shimon
- Miodrag Radonovic
- Bob Stevens - Mike
- Avi Pnini
- Avi Kleinberger - Abba
- Elizabeta Kukic
- Yacov Banai
- Ellen Burstyn - Alex Hacker
- Fabio Testi - Mustapha Hashimi
- Heli Goldenberg - Rachel
- Ori Levy - Abe
- Chaim Banai - Cafe Owner
- Dan Toren - Young Soldier
- Peter Freistadt
- Jesse Katzur - Lenny
- Ran Vered
- Joseph Bee
- Zachi Noy - Ze'ev
- Director(s):
- J. Lee Thompson
- Producer(s):
- Itzhak Kol, Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
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