Main Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson, Fabio Testi, Donald Pleasence
Release Year: 1984
Country: US
Run Time: 97 minutes
Plot
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, All Movie Guide
Heli Goldenberg - Rachel; Michael Bat-Adam - Tova; Ori Levy - Abe; Uri Gavriel - Assad; Chaim Banai - Cafe Owner; Yacov Banai; Zachi Noy - Ze'ev; Yosef Shiloah - Shimon; Dan Toren - Young Soldier; Elizabeta Kukic; Miodrag Radonovic; Joseph Bee; Peter Freistadt; Avi Kleinberger - Abba; Bob Stevens - Mike; Ran Vered; Jesse Katzur - Lenny; Avi Pnini
Credit
J. Lee Thompson - Director, Mark Goldblatt - Editor, Peter Lee-Thompson - Editor, Yoram Globus - Executive Producer, Menahem Golan - Executive Producer, Alfi Kabiljo - Composer (Music Score), Dov Seltzer - Composer (Music Score), Yoram Barzilai - Production Designer, Adam Greenberg - Cinematographer, Avraham Karpick - Cinematographer, Yoram Globus - Producer, Menahem Golan - Producer, Itzhak Kol - Producer, Elmore Leonard - Book Author
A U.S. ambassador (Robert Mitchum) travels to Israel during attempted peace agreements with Palestinians who are being deterred by a security advisor (Rock Hudson). The ambassador's wife (Ellen Burstyn) enters an affair with a PLO leader. Others seek hush money from the ambassador about news of the affair, but the ambassador refuses, leading to a chain of events.
