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The Angel Levine

1970
1h 44m
Drama
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Cast

Zero Mostel (Morris Mishkin)Harry Belafonte (Alexander Levine)Ida Kaminska (Fanny Mishkin)Milo O'Shea (Dr. Arnold Berg)Gloria Foster (Sally)Barbara Ann Teer (Welfare Lady)Eli Wallach (Delicatessen Clerk)Anne Jackson (Woman in Delicatessen)Stephen Strimpell (Drugstore Clerk)Sam Raskyn (Druggist)Kathy Shawn (Woman in Drugstore)

Director

Ján Kadár

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Synopsis

Morris Mishkin is an elderly Jewish tailor plagued by hard times who prays to God for help and receives it in the person of a most unusual angel named Levine, a young, black, Jewish hustler from somewhere between Harlem and Heaven.

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