Menahem Golan - biography

“The film business is the only business where a negative is a positive.”

“If you make an American film with a beginning, middle and end, with a budget of less than five million dollars, you must be an idiot to lose money.”

“Pictures are not wine.  We don’t believe in laying them down to gather dust.”

“Normal Mailer will play King Lear.  He’s a natural.  His has five daughters and a crazy life.”

“To me, [Kim Basinger] is Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Judy Holliday in one girl - with the talent of Julie Christie.  She’s the most talented girl I’ve seen in my life.  Just looking at her makes me want to screw her.”

Menahem Golan directed the following films:
Fortuna (1966)
Trunk to Cairo (1966)
What’s Good for the Goose (1969)
Escape to the Sun (1972)
Lepke (1975)
Mivtsa Yonatan (1977)
Star Rock (1980)
Enter the Ninja (1981)
Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)
The Delta Force (1986)
Hanna’s War (1988)
Mack the Knife (1989)
Zebrácká opera (1991)
The Versace Murder (1998)
Armstrong (1998)
Lima: Breaking the Silence (1999)
Death Game (2001)
Crime and Punishment (2002)


Menahem Golan contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Fortuna (1966)
Commandos (1968)
What’s Good for the Goose (1969)
Escape to the Sun (1972)
Mivtsa Yonatan (1977)
Star Rock (1980)
Sahara (1983)
The Delta Force (1986)
Hanna’s War (1988)
Mack the Knife (1989)
The Forbidden Dance (1990)
The Versace Murder (1998)
Armstrong (1998)
Lima: Breaking the Silence (1999)
Crime and Punishment (2002)