The Man in the Glass Booth

Actor/writer Robert Shaw’s powerhouse stage play +The Man in the Glass Booth was transferred to the screen as part of the American Film Theatre series. Maximilian Schell plays Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessmen living in Manhattan in 1965. A group of Israeli underground agents barge into Goldman’s office and kidnap him. He is brought to Israel, placed in a bulletproof glass booth, and put on trial. His accusers charge that Goldman is not a Jew, but in fact a notorious Nazi war criminal, guilty of unspeakable crimes against humanity. Robert Shaw’s name does not appear in the credits of The Man in the Glass Booth; he was so displeased with Edward Anhalt’s screen adaptation that he had his name removed from the project., Robert Shaw’s play about a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who thinks he’s a Nazi officer. Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton. Judge: Luther Adler. Charlie: Lawrence Pressman. Jack: Henry Brown. Moshe: Richard Rasof. Rami: David Nash. Uri: Sy Kramer. Arthur Hiller directed.