Skokie Movie

Skokie
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Run Time: 121 min
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Released: 1981
Directors: Herbert Wise
Genre/Type: Drama
Docudrama
Courtroom Drama
Political Drama
Producers: Robert Berger
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their intended site is the Chicago suburb of Skokie, a town populated predominantly by Jews--many of them survivors of the Nazi holocaust. Jewish ACLU lawyer John Rubinstein is compelled to lobby for the National Socialists' freedom to express their views, despite his own inner turmoil over defending the very people who'd destroy him. The most vocal opponent to the planned rally is Skokie senior citizen Max Liebman (Danny Kaye), who spent five years in Hitler's death camps. Ernest Kinoy's teleplay for Skokie is fair-minded to a fault, presenting all points of view with equanimity, proving that there are no simple solutions when the fundamental right of Free Speech is involved.

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A suburb of Chicago located just to the west of Evanston and North of Lincolnwood. It is a very uninteresting place with nothing to do. The two high schools there are pretty boring. The streets are raggidy as hell. The only two types of gir...
From your description of wants, I think you'd be happier in Evanston. The downtown is much more vibrant (Skokie's is almost non-existent; Old Orchard Mall in Skokie has much more to offer than downtown Skokie), and the presence of Northwest...
Skokie, also known as Dempster or Dempster/Skokie, is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Yellow Line at 5001 Dempster Street in Skokie, Illinois (directional coordinates 8800 north, 5000 west). It is one of two ...
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Cast

Actors Character Born
Kim Hunter Bertha Feldman Nov 12, 1922 in Detroit, MI
Marie Mathay Phyllis
Dan Conway Anchorman
Beatrice Fredman Survivor
Brian Dennehy Chief Arthur Buchanan Jul 9, 1938 in Bridgeport, CT
Dick Cusack Board Member
Charles Levin Rabbi Steinberg
James Sutorius David Hamlin
Marin Kanter Janet Feldman
George Dzundza Frank Collin Jul 19, 1945 in Rosenheim, Germany
Ed Flanders Mayor Albert J. Smith Dec 29, 1934 in Minneapolis, MN
Ned Schmidtke Reporter
Chelcie Ross Nazi
Ward Ohrman Judge
Lee Strasberg Morton Weisman Nov 17, 1901 in Budzanow, Austria
Danny Kaye Max Feldman Jan 18, 1913 in Brooklyn, NY
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