The Seventh Coin Movie Review 1992

The legendary King Herod minted seven coins bearing his image which have become coin collector Emil Saber's (O'Toole) obsession. (He's a homicidal lunatic who thinks he's the reincarnation of Herod anyway.) Saber has found six of the coins but the seventh has fallen into the unsuspecting hands of Salim (Chowdhry), a pickpocket who has actually snatched it from the equally unsuspecting Ronnie (Powers), an American teenager visiting Jerusalem (good local color). The two become allies when Saber comes after them. They're an appealing couple; O'Toole camps it up shamelessly; and the movie is easygoing escapism.

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 92 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Teen Angst, Israel

Screenplay

Michael Lewis, Dror Soref

Cast

Alexandra Powers, Navin Chowdhry, Peter O'Toole, John Rhys-Davies, Ally Walker

Cinematography

Avi (Avraham) Karpik

Director

Dror Soref

Producer

Lee Nelson, Omri Maron, James Nelson, Shimshon Rafaeli, Dov Strikofsky, Garry Hakim, Inc. Hemdale Communications