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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
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- Subject: Re: Cast a Giant Shadow
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 19:59:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.130358.4770@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> wkm1@nestor.cc.bellcore.com (messer,wendy k) writes:
- }Cast a Giant Shadow was made in about 1967.
- }I knew some people they were using as extras, they filmed it in
- }Israel.
- }
- }Kirk Douglas played Mickey Marcus, based on a true story.
- }
- }
- }He was killed because he didn't understand something that was
- }asked of him in Hebrew, he didn't know any. The guard/sentry (?)
- }shot first and asked questions later.
- }
- }Hope this clears it up.
-
- It certainly didn't help that he had wrapped himself in a sheet before leaving
- his tent to urinate.
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
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