The Angel Levine

The Angel Levine

106 mins | Drama | July 28, 1970

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?

The Angel Levine

106 mins | Drama | July 28, 1970

The Angel Levine
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers United Artists, Belafonte Enterprises
Original title The Angel Levine
Directors Ján Kadár
Writers Ronald Ribman, Bill Gunn, Bernard Malamud

Cast

Zero Mostel

as Morris Mishkin

Harry Belafonte

as Alexander Levine

Ida Kamińska

as Fanny Mishkin

Milo O’Shea

as Dr. Arnold Berg

Gloria Foster

as Sally

Barbara Ann Teer

as Welfare Lady

Eli Wallach

as Delicatessen Clerk

Anne Jackson

as Woman in Delicatessen

Stephen Strimpell

as Drugstore Clerk

Sam Raskyn

as Druggist

Kathy Shawn

as Woman in Drugstore