Skokie (1981)
2h 5m
Running Time
November 17, 1981Release Date
Plot.
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.
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Cast & Crew.
Danny Kaye
Max Feldman
John Rubinstein
Herb Lewisohn
Carl Reiner
Abbot Rosen
Eli Wallach
Bert Silverman
Kim Hunter
Bertha Feldman
Lee Strasberg
Morton Weisman
Herbert Wise
Director
Brian Dennehy
Police Chief Arthur Buchanan
Ernest Kinoy
Writer
Robert Berger
Producer
George Dzundza
Frank Collin
Alex Thomson
Cinematographer
Ed Flanders
Mayor Albert J. Smith
Charles Levin
Rabbi Steinberg
Robert M. Reitano
Editor
Stephen D. Newman
Aryeh Neier
Stephen A. Rotter
Editor
James Sutorius
David Hamlin
Marin Kanter
Janet Feldman
Robin Bartlett
JDL Girl
David Hurst
Sol Goldstein
Joseph Leon
Hershkowitz
Ruth Nelson
Grandma Jannsen
Robin Morse
Penny Jannsen
Michele Shay
Sheila
Douglas Alan-Mann
Minister
Jack Callahan
Father Kelly
Dan Conway
Anchorman
Richard Cusak
Board Member
Harry Elders
Judge
Beatrice Fredman
Survivor
Robert J. Jones Jr.
Reporter
Pamela Keith
Reporter
Dan Le Monnier
Murray
Ted Liss
Justice
Mitch Litrofsky
C.A.R. Leader
Marie Mathay
Phyllis
Bob McCord
Bailiff
Ward Ohrman
Judge
Jack Orend
Nazi
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Skokie is a 1981 television film directed by Herbert Wise, based on a real life controversy in Skokie, Illinois, involving the National Socialist Party of America. This controversy would be fought in court and reach the level of the United States Supreme Court in National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie.
The film premiered in the US on November 17, 1981. It was shown on the Israeli Educational television in the 1980s and on German television on March 3, 1997.