The Angel Levine (1970)
If he's an angel, imagine what God is like.
104 min
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
- Release date
- July 28, 1970
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Zero Mostel as Morris Mishkin
- Harry Belafonte as Alexander Levine
- Ida Kaminska as Fanny Mishkin
- Milo O'Shea as Dr. Arnold Berg
- Gloria Foster as Sally
- Barbara Ann Teer as Welfare Clerk
- Eli Wallach as Delicatessen Clerk
- Anne Jackson as Woman in Delicatessen
- Stephen Strimpell as Drugstore Clerk
- Sam Raskyn as Druggist
Crew
- Ján Kadár · Director
- Bill Gunn · Writer
- Ronald Ribman · Writer
- Bernard Malamud · Writer
- Chiz Schultz · Producer
- Zdeněk Liška · Composer
- Richard C. Kratina · Cinematographer
- Carl Lerner · Editor
- George Jenkins · Production designer