Jerusalem is one of three foreign cities–the others are Amsterdam and Copenhagen–that have arranged, at their request, local showings of the motion picture documentary “King: A Filmed Record, Montgomery to Memphis” coincident with the once-only theatrical showing in the United States next Tuesday night. The almost-three-hour production details the life, work and death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whose assassination in 1968 was a cause for widespread mourning in Israel and other foreign countries. All income from the showings will go to aid civil rights causes. The film was produced by Ely Landau, among whose previous work is “The Pawnbroker” (1965), starring Rod Steiger as a Jewish victim of the Nazi terror.
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