The Man in the Glass Booth

Name: The Man in the Glass Booth
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1975-01-27
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler, Lloyd Bochner

The kidnapping... The masquerade... The murder trial... Perhaps the most suspenseful shocker of our time.

The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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Release date

1975-01-27

Country

United States

Production

The Ely Landau Organization Inc., Cinévision Ltée, The American Film Theatre

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Budget

Revenue

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Director

Arthur Hiller

Actors

Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Henry Brown, Norbert Schiller, Berry Kroeger, Leonardo Cimino
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Scenario

Producer

Ely A. Landau, Mort Abrahams

Operator

Sam Leavitt

Composer

Artist

Joel Schiller

Audition

Joe Scully

Editing

David Bretherton
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Short description

Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverent musings on aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished one day when Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face, not only his presumed guilt, but their own.

What's left behind the scenes

The play that served as the literary source for the screenplay, as well as this adaptation, were inspired by the abduction and subsequent trial of Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), which in turn became the subject of a separate documentary—Michael Prasadan's 'The Trial of Adolf Eichmann' (1997).
This film became part of the 'American Film Theatre' series, a kind of marketing experiment for films (all based on plays) that otherwise would not have been funded. These films were not released in wide distribution, and tickets could only be purchased by subscribers to the 'American Film Theatre' series. Thus, theatrical screenings were available to only a strictly limited number of viewers. To attract potential subscribers, they were assured that none of the films would be broadcast on television or shown to the general public. The film was finally released on DVD in 2003. The experiment itself lasted only two years.
Robert Shaw (1927-1978) was dissatisfied with how Edward Anhalt (1914-2000) adapted his 1967 novel of the same name for the screen and demanded that his name be removed from the credits.