The Faithful City (1952)
79 min
The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphans, Jewish refugees of the concentration camps. It takes some doing, but Smith wins the love and trust of these displaced youngsters. Like most government-funded Israeli productions of the early 1950s, Faithful City is designed more to instruct and inform than entertain. That it happens to be entertaining in the bargain is all the more reason to seek out this extremely rare film.
- Release date
- January 15, 1952
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Eduard Ben-Michael
Cast
- Jamie Smith as Sam
- Ben Josef as Davidel
- John Slater as Ezra
- Rahel Marcus as Sarah
- Dina Doron as Anna
- Didi Ramati as Tamar
- Israel Hanin as Max
- Juda Levi as Joan
- Amnon Lifshitz
Crew
- Joseph Lejtes · Director
- Joseph Lejtes · Writer
- Ben Barzman · Writer
- Joseph Lejtes · Producer
- Eduard Ben-Michael · Composer
- Gerald Gibbs · Cinematographer
- John D. Guthridge · Editor