Raid on Entebbe 4 stars out of 5 stars

Released in 1976 and running 145 minutes this is a perfect TV movie.Good cast,heroic story and small sets.Based on a true incident and personally tied to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Before Al-Qaeda there was Revolutionary Cells and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,who together hijacked on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers and finally landed in to Entebbe, near Kampala, the capital of Uganda.The operation, which took a week of planning, lasted 90 minutes and 103 hostages were rescued. Five Israeli commandos were wounded and one, the commander, Lt Col Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed. All the hijackers, three hostages and 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed, and 11 Soviet-built MiG-17s of Uganda's air force were destroyed. A fourth hostage was murdered by Ugandan army officers at a nearby hospital.This movie dramatizes the raid in fine fashion.I took off 1 star because there were some slow spots and at 145 minutes,who needs that??Still a great cast including Charles Bronson as Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron and my favorite TV actor Martin Balsam as Jewish passenger Daniel Cooper.If you like righteous action you'll love this film.Could not find a trailer only the ending scene URL posted below under the pix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DmvdcZfS4c