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Skokie - Based on the history-shaking true story of a small town in Illinois - Brian Dennehy - Eli Wallach - Danny Kaye - A true story of the triumph of human spirit.
Skokie is many things. It is Danny Kaye’s final film. It is Danny Kaye’s only strictly dramatic role. It is a balanced view at two sides of an issue. It looks at the survivors of the Nazi holocaust. It provides wonderful acting by some truly great actors, including Danny Kaye, Eli Wallach, Brian Dennehy, and Carl Reiner, It is an absolute classic, that everyone should watch.

Danny Kaye stars as Max Feldman, a quiet man in a quiet town—Skokie, Illinois—until he hears of a marched planned by modern-day Nazis through his little town. Max is a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. He was silent once, and is determined not to be silent in the face of evil again. Against the wishes of his wife, he tells their daughter of the horrors of the concentration camp for the first time; like many survivors, Max and his wife have tried to spare their daughter the knowledge of what happened to them there.

When Max speaks up, and tries to stop the march from taking place, the leader of the Nazi group approaches the ACLU, and has a jewish attorney agree to represent them in court. Both the court action and a dramatic kitchen scene between the Jewish lawyer and Max are well-rounded and riveting. It’s highly recommended.

Synopsis of Skokie, starring Danny Kaye - courtesy of Amazon.com

This is the story of some Modern day Nazi activists who plan to march through the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie. The town officials tell the citizens to ignore them cause there’s nothing that they can do. But one citizen (Kaye) who’s a death camp survivor says that he was told this nearly forty years ago in Germany and before he knew it he was in a concentration camp. He says this time if they march, he will not ignore them; he will take action. So, the mayor does what he can to stop them, so the Nazi’s leader (Dzundza) goes to the ACLU, and the Jewish lawyer (Rubinstein) he speaks to, says that this is a violation of the First Ammendment and takes the case to court.