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Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer
Series: Thorold Dickinson’s World of Cinema
Director: Thorold Dickinson, Country: Israel, Release: 1955, Runtime: 101

Dickinson’s final feature was also the first feature made in Israel, in which four army volunteers in 1947 recount (in flashback) the stories of how they arrived in the newly formed state, as they move to secure the strategically important Hill 24 on the eve of a ceasefire. Dickinson and his wife Joanna extensively reworked the original material (“These very right-wing people had written this script… But we rewrote quite a lot, simplified it all…Highly nationalistic types, and I wouldn’t let any of their ideas into it”), and the filmmaker turned to reality for his inspiration. Dickinson passionately believed in the existence of Israel, but he also felt the obligation to express his support through fact-based argument rather than partisan sloganeering. The result is a meticulously crafted film of impressive objectivity, with a powerful undercurrent of emotion. Dickinson later said that “everything we did was so authentic that… two or three people who had been through it all saw the film and they came out almost in tears because they said they’d no idea that anyone would ever recapture on the screen the experience that they had had.”




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