![]() Story of disillusioned, middle-aged garment manufacturer who finally gives way to lax morality of world around him. Jews manage to outsmart the Cossack officers. Comic romance about life in the shtetl during Czarist period. ROMANCE OF A HORSE THIEF (Abraham Polonsky, 1971). Suspense story of group who struggle to escape from wrecked ship mixed group with middle-aged Jewish couple (Shelley Winters). THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (Ronald Neame, 1973). Film version of Philip Roth novel about young Jew’s efforts to reach manhood. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT (Ernest Lehman, 1972). Suspense thriller about writer who tracks down concentration camp commandant. Story of embittered German-Jewish immigrant who cannot find a new life after concentration camp experiences. Story of Jewish cop (George Segal) who catches psychotic murderer with mother fixation (Rod Steiger). NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (Jack Smight, 1968). Comedy about oddball Jew who falls in love with lonely gentile girl. MINNIE AND MOSCOWITZ (John Cassavetes, 1971). Story of older Jewish businessman (Fredric March) and romance with much younger gentile secretary. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (Delbert Mann, 1959). Story of life and romance of beautiful “Jewish Princess” (Natalie Wood). MARJORIE MORNIIGSTAR (Irving Rapper, 1958). Comedy about Jewish widow (Rosalind Russell) who finds companionship with Japanese widower (Alec Guinness). FIĪ MAJORITY OF ONE (Mervyn LeRoy, 1961). Semi-autobiographic comedy about love and marriage between Jewish writer Renee Taylor and Italian writer husband Joseph Bologna. I LOVE YOU ALICE B, TOKLAS (Hy Averback, 1968), Knowing comedy about uptight young lawyer (Peter Sellers) who “drops out.” AB, BUD, CIN, MOD, WC, CLW, UF, NAT, SWA, TWY Modern detective story which includes portrait of a swinging, sadistic Jewish gangster who smashes coke bottle across face of girlfriend. AB, CIN, FC, MOD, BUD, TRANS, TWY, CON, WC, CLW Story of dedicated Jewish doctor who becomes the subject of a TV documentary. Story of emotionally damaged Jew (Kirk Douglas) who finds new life in Israel after the war. Drama about disillusioned Israeli immigrant (Sophia Loren) who helps capture former Nazi officer. Didactic film about truth and responsibility in Nazi Germany as revealed by war criminal trials in Nuremberg. JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (Stanley Kramer, 1961). Confusing suspense story about Arab-Israeli conflict shot on location in Israel. Story of young Jewish drifter in drug scene, UA Remake of first sound film about cantor’s son who prefers show biz to synagogues. Screen version of Scott classic about old Jew and his beautiful daughter (Elizabeth Taylor). Story of anti-Semitic trial of French officer Alfred Dreyfus. Blaxploitation film which involves middle-aged Jewish couple in revenge mission in France. X-rated animated feature about Jewish-Italian cartoonist with a stereotyped Jewish mother. Story of young Jew who succeeds in dumping new Jewish-bride for blond shiksa. Adaptation of Philip Roth’s novella about a failed romance between a sensitive young Jew (Richard Benjamin) and a “Jewish princess” (Ali McGraw). Story of young Jewish college prof (James Caan) who can't kick the habit, Comedy focusing on young couple trying to make it with help of Jewish madam (Molly Picon). Adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s novel based on anti-Semitic trial of young Jew (Alan Bates) in Czarist Russia. Saga of Jews’ efforts to establish the State of Israel. Many ethnic jokes which run gamut between accuracy and bad taste.ĮXODUS (Otto Preminger, 1960). Satiric film about sex with Woody as the sick patient. MODĮVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK (Woody Allen, 1972). Fictionalized auto-biography by director of entry into the world of entertainment. Story of shy, intelligent girl who gets encouragement from Jewish science teacher to seek horizons beyond the limitations of her chaotic home. THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS (Paul Newman, 1973). Film version of young Jewish girl’s adolescence in hiding during Nazi occupation of Holland. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (George Stevens, 1959). Domestic comedy about two Jewish sons (Frank Sinatra and Tony Bill) who go it on their own without help from mama and papa (Molly Picon & Lee J. UAĬOME BLOW YOUR HORN (Bud Yorkin, 1963). hero Mickey Marcus who helps Israelis defeat Arabs in War of Independence. CINĬAST A GIANT SHADOW (Melville Shavelson, 1966). Story of life in Berlin during early thirties and of two Jewish Germans caught in the turmoil. AB, FC, MOD, TWY, UFĬABARET (Bob Fosse, 1972). Bittersweet comedy about four New York Jewish intellectuals who gather together to bid their friend a final farewell. UAīYE BYE BRAVERMAN (Sidney Lumet, 1968). Story of an old Jewish couple who pray for help and find God sent them a black angel. Minorities in Film, 2 by Patricia Erens JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1975, 2004
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