U.S. distributors Kino Lorber have revealed that they are planning to release on Blu-ray director Melville Shavelson's
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), starring Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickinson, and Senta Berger. The release is expected to arrive on the U.S. market later this year.
Official synopsis: Part fact, part fiction,
Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes Israel's heroic 1947-48 struggle for independence. Both realistic war story and passionate romance, it features an all-star cast including Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger and Angie Dickinson, as well as Yul Brynner, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra in notable supporting roles.
After a brilliant career in the U.S. army, WWII hero and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Douglas) is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife (Dickinson), Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a ragtag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon (Berger).