41111111111111111111.1. - 14 Friday, September 19, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Lovers Become Boat Refugees Big Red One' Uses Israeli Extras in Death Camp Scenes By HERBERT LUFT (Copyright 1980, JTA I Inc.) exclusive MICHIGAN DISTRIBUTOR OF SALES • SERVICE • CUSTOM LEASE PLANS TamaRoFF Buick-Honda 28585 Telegraph Rd. across from Tel-Twelve Mall Southfield, Mich. Phone 353-1300 SAMUEL FULLER, for the production of his WWII movie, "The Big Red One," recreated the grisly site of Nazi extermination camp Falkenau near the Or- thodox community of Mea Shearim, Israel. In the corn- pound, a U.S. sergeant (Lee Marvin) finds a Jewish boy with vacant eyes and a body wasted by starvation in a scene leading up to the con- clusion of the picture. Some of the people por- traying SS guards wore skullcaps under their steel helmets; elderly women holding up Hitler pictures, in an ecstatic endorsement of the Fuehrer who was about to lose their war, at first were hesitant to pay homage to an evil system that destroyed their own kin. Time and again, Fuller had to assure his Hebrew friends that it was a movie. At a press conference, Fuller and two members of the squad from "The Big Red One," Robert Carradine and Bobby DiCicco, were both touched by the fighting spirit of the Israelis. _ 1 6 71-n 71.1V, Ingrinnl IznAnral SHALOM The Directors And Officers Of The Crown Life Insurance Company In Toronto, Canada Join With The Detroit Center Agency And Their Many Agents and Associates In the State of Michigan To Wish Policyholders, Clients And Other Friends The Very Best Wishes For A Healthful And Prosperous Happy New Year Bingham Center 30600 Telegraph Rd., Suite 1233 Birmingham, Mich. 48010 645-6655 1.101•Mailefflelr, The real glory of war, Ful- ler maintains, is survival. An infantry man in WWII earning a Bronze Star in Sicily and a Silver Star in Normandy, he feels that basically there is never a right war. But he makes one exception. You couldn't rea- son with Hitler (whose "be- hind" the Germans were kissing) but had to kill the killer lest the whole world would be subject to tyranny. The veteran filmmaker, meanwhile, is negotiating for another war epic, filmi- zation of the French best- selling novel, "The Tunnel," dealing with the occupation army in Paris. This one is being produced by Serge Silvermann. GENOCIDE is a 'documentary feature now in the editing stage in the quiet suburb of Venice at the outskirts of Los Angeles. Arnold Schwartzman, a British filmmaker and graphic de- signer, is at the helm of the production which was com- missioned by the Wiesent- hal Center for Holocaust Studies of the Yeshiva Uni- versity in Los Angeles. JACK P. EISNER'S biographical account of "The Survivor," now pub- lished by Morrow and simultaneously dramatized for off-Broadway, has been transposed into a, motion picture scenario by Abby Mann, Academy Award winner for "Judgment at Nuremberg." Eisner was 13 years old when his native city of War- saw was taken by the Ger- man blitzkreig armies in the fall of 1939. An affirmation of the in- domitable human spirit, the same spirit evoked by Sam Fuller in "The Big Red One," Eisner's factual ac- count will come to the theatrical screen next year, with actual photography to - take place in Poland and Germany. A search for a boy of 13, preferably a complete unknown who can give the tragic events a sense of au- thenticity, has been in- itiated on three continents. SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER portrays cantor Rabinovitch in the current edition of "The Jazz Singer," produced by Jerry Leider, in which Neil Diamond essays the coveted role of the pro- digal son in the early talk- ing picture created by Al Jolson. In the updated ver- sion, the elderly cantor is a death camp survivor with a prison number burned into his inner arm. It is the conviction of the East Side cantor that only tradition can make us sur- vive as a people; his prayer and meditation turns the There are three types of "doers": If a man says, "I shall do it soon," his char- acter is poor; if he says, "I am ready to do it," his char- acter is average; if he says, "I am doing it," his char- acter is praiseworthy. — Hasidic saying tide and brings the young man back into the fold of the Jewish faith. "The Jazz Singer" com- bines liturgical chants with modern compositions by Neil Diamond. Richard Fleischer directed with Lucie Arnaz contributing the love interest. An EMI production, the film opens at year's end. "BRIDGES OF OC- TOBER" is another forth- coming epic dealing with the theme of survival, this one with the survival of the Hebrew nation after the sneak attack across the Suez Canal on Yom Kippur 1973, on the holiest of holy days and the only day such an operation of Goliath against David could have been accomplished. It will be interesting to learn how producer Martin Poll will tackle the picture termed by him a personal story against the back- ground of war and seen from both sides, especially since both President Anwar Sadat and Premier Menahem Begin have pledged unlimited coopera- tion in the spirit of Camp David. TEL AVIV (JTA) — A suspicious looking small boat making its way to Is- raeli waters from Lebanon was found by the Israeli navy patrol boat that inter- cepted it to be carrying a young Lebanese couple seeking sanctuary in Israel in order to marry. The elop- ing couple was taken to Haifa. The young man and woman said they met a year ago and fell in love: But her father, a fisherman, refused to sanction their marriage. CODE-A-PHONE Telephone Answering Systems EXCLUSIVE AUTHORIZED DEALER Sales & Service A complete line of America's top quality telephone answering systems. 759-5400 CIRCLE COMMUNICATIONS 24760 Romano, Warren PRESCRIPTION OPTICAL CO. 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