Menahem Golan

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Menahem Golan (born 31 October, 1929 - died 8 August, 2014) was an Israeli director and producer. He has produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and was known for a period as a producer of comic book-style movies like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Using the pen name of Joseph Goldman, Golan also wrote and "polished" film scripts. He was co-owner of Golan-Globus with his cousin Yoram Globus. Description above from the Wikipedia article Menahem Golan licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Enter the Ninja (1981)

After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Angolan Bush War veteran by the name of Cole visits his war buddy Frank Landers and his newly wed wife Mary Ann, who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Franco Nero  •  Susan George  •  Christopher George  •  Sho Kosugi

After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Angolan Bush War veteran by the name of Cole visits his war buddy Frank Landers and his newly wed wife Mary Ann, who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Franco Nero  •  Susan George  •  Christopher George  •  Sho Kosugi

Over the Top (1987)

Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Sylvester Stallone  •  Robert Loggia  •  Rick Zumwalt  •  Susan Blakely

Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Sylvester Stallone  •  Robert Loggia  •  Rick Zumwalt  •  Susan Blakely

The Apple (1980)

In the glitzy, glittering futuristic world of 1994, music is king -- and the man who controls it is all-powerful malicious mogul Mr. Boogalow. Now he has his eye on two fresh-faced young singers, Alphie and Bibi, who score a hit at his WorldVision Song Festival and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Catherine Mary Stewart  •  Grace Kennedy  •  George Gilmour  •  Allan Love

In the glitzy, glittering futuristic world of 1994, music is king -- and the man who controls it is all-powerful malicious mogul Mr. Boogalow. Now he has his eye on two fresh-faced young singers, Alphie and Bibi, who score a hit at his WorldVision Song Festival and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Catherine Mary Stewart  •  Grace Kennedy  •  George Gilmour  •  Allan Love

The Delta Force (1986)

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Chuck Norris  •  Lee Marvin  •  Shelley Winters  •  Martin Balsam

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Chuck Norris  •  Lee Marvin  •  Shelley Winters  •  Martin Balsam

Diamonds (1975)

Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Robert Shaw  •  Richard Roundtree  •  Barbara Hershey  •  Shelley Winters

Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Robert Shaw  •  Richard Roundtree  •  Barbara Hershey  •  Shelley Winters

Trunk to Cairo (1966)

Audie plays a James Bond-type action hero assigned to destroy a Neo-Nazy weapons factory headed by nemesis George Sanders.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Audie Murphy  •  George Sanders  •  Marianne Koch  •  Gila Almagor

Audie plays a James Bond-type action hero assigned to destroy a Neo-Nazy weapons factory headed by nemesis George Sanders.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Audie Murphy  •  George Sanders  •  Marianne Koch  •  Gila Almagor

The Magician of Lublin (1979)

Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Alan Arkin  •  Louise Fletcher  •  Valerie Perrine  •  Shelley Winters

Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Alan Arkin  •  Louise Fletcher  •  Valerie Perrine  •  Shelley Winters

The Highway Queen (1971)

A story of a street walker, who tries to leave the world of prostitution when she gets pregnant.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Gila Almagor  •  Yehuda Barkan  •  Miriam Bernstein-Cohen  •  Leah Koenig

A story of a street walker, who tries to leave the world of prostitution when she gets pregnant.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Gila Almagor  •  Yehuda Barkan  •  Miriam Bernstein-Cohen  •  Leah Koenig

The Big Eden (2011)

Rolf Eden is Germany’s last playboy. As ‘king of disco’ he launched the first beauty contests popularising DJing and striptease in prudish West Germany. Father of seven children of seven different women, he has danced with the Rolling Stones and Ella Fitzgerald in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Dörfler
CAST:  Rolf Eden  •  Ursula Buchfellner  •  Menahem Golan  •  Yoram Kaniuk

Rolf Eden is Germany’s last playboy. As ‘king of disco’ he launched the first beauty contests popularising DJing and striptease in prudish West Germany. Father of seven children of seven different women, he has danced with the Rolling Stones and Ella Fitzgerald in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Dörfler
CAST:  Rolf Eden  •  Ursula Buchfellner  •  Menahem Golan  •  Yoram Kaniuk

Hanna's War (1988)

Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Ellen Burstyn  •  Maruschka Detmers  •  Anthony Andrews  •  Donald Pleasence

Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Ellen Burstyn  •  Maruschka Detmers  •  Anthony Andrews  •  Donald Pleasence

Operation Thunderbolt (1977)

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Yehoram Gaon  •  Gila Almagor  •  Klaus Kinski  •  Assi Dayan

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Yehoram Gaon  •  Gila Almagor  •  Klaus Kinski  •  Assi Dayan

The Great Telephone Robbery (1972)

Meshulam, a lowly bank clerk, has two hobbies: crime novels, and the ability to calculate investment interest in his head. When he learns of a local gang's plot to rob the bank, Meshulam realizes that this is his chance to make himself the hero of his own crime ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Gabi Amrani  •  Dubi Gal  •  Shaike Ophir  •  Gideon Singer

Meshulam, a lowly bank clerk, has two hobbies: crime novels, and the ability to calculate investment interest in his head. When he learns of a local gang's plot to rob the bank, Meshulam realizes that this is his chance to make himself the hero of his own crime ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Gabi Amrani  •  Dubi Gal  •  Shaike Ophir  •  Gideon Singer

Eagles Attack At Dawn (1970)

Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. The soldiers must ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Rick Jason  •  Peter Brown  •  Yosef Shiloach  •  Yehuda Barkan

Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. The soldiers must ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Rick Jason  •  Peter Brown  •  Yosef Shiloach  •  Yehuda Barkan

999 Aliza: The Policeman (1967)

Aliza mizrahi, the building cleaner, solves a murder where the police fails  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Edna Fliedel  •  Avner Hizkiyahu  •  Shoshana Shani-Lavie  •  Uri Zohar

Aliza mizrahi, the building cleaner, solves a murder where the police fails  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Edna Fliedel  •  Avner Hizkiyahu  •  Shoshana Shani-Lavie  •  Uri Zohar

Fortuna (1966)

Directed by Menahem Golan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Gila Almagor  •  Yossi Banai  •  Pierre Brasseur  •  Ahuva Goren

Directed by Menahem Golan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Gila Almagor  •  Yossi Banai  •  Pierre Brasseur  •  Ahuva Goren

Lepke (1975)

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Tony Curtis  •  Anjanette Comer  •  Michael Callan  •  Warren Berlinger

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Tony Curtis  •  Anjanette Comer  •  Michael Callan  •  Warren Berlinger

Katz and Carrasso (1971)

Katz and Carasso are owners of rival insurance companies, who strongly loathe each other. They seek to sell insurance to the wealthy womanizer Israel Israeli, and use all available means for this purpose: Katz's elder daughter Naomi uses her feminine charms on ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Yehuda Barkan  •  Yosef Shiloach  •  Nitza Shaul  •  Shmuel Rodensky

Katz and Carasso are owners of rival insurance companies, who strongly loathe each other. They seek to sell insurance to the wealthy womanizer Israel Israeli, and use all available means for this purpose: Katz's elder daughter Naomi uses her feminine charms on ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Yehuda Barkan  •  Yosef Shiloach  •  Nitza Shaul  •  Shmuel Rodensky

El Dorado (1963)

Sherman, who is on trial for murder, is found not guilty thanks to reasonable doubt, however; having stood trial leaves the young felon a changed man. He falls head over heels with his defence attorney’s bright daughter and is even willing to turn his back on a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Topol  •  Gila Almagor  •  Shaike Ophir  •  Yossi Yadin

Sherman, who is on trial for murder, is found not guilty thanks to reasonable doubt, however; having stood trial leaves the young felon a changed man. He falls head over heels with his defence attorney’s bright daughter and is even willing to turn his back on a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Topol  •  Gila Almagor  •  Shaike Ophir  •  Yossi Yadin

Silent Victim (1993)

An abusive husband is angered that his wife is having trouble conceiving a child. One night, after leaving his house following a fight, she overdoses on pills. After bringing her to the ER to save her, the husband discovers that she was, in fact, pregnant and had ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Michele Greene  •  Ely Pouget  •  Kyle Secor  •  Rosemary Newcott

An abusive husband is angered that his wife is having trouble conceiving a child. One night, after leaving his house following a fight, she overdoses on pills. After bringing her to the ER to save her, the husband discovers that she was, in fact, pregnant and had ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Michele Greene  •  Ely Pouget  •  Kyle Secor  •  Rosemary Newcott

Crime and Punishment (2002)

A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Vanessa Redgrave  •  John Hurt  •  Margot Kidder  •  Crispin Glover

A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Vanessa Redgrave  •  John Hurt  •  Margot Kidder  •  Crispin Glover
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