I Like Mike (1961)
This romantic drama directed by Peter Frye is about the son of a millionaire Jewish family living in Texas who travels to Israel. On his way to the hotel in Tel Aviv after landing at the airport, the son Mike (Seymour Gitin) gets invited to spend some time with a cab driver's family. Before he has time to experience jet lag, the unwanted attentions of a female in the hotel send Mike packing. He ends up with the cabbie's family, a mixed group presided over by an authoritative matriarch (Batya Lancet). She sees no reason why one of her marriageable daughters should not hook up with this millionaire Mike, but Mike has already lost his heart to a model on a magazine cover -- quite a sticky wicket.
Director: Peter Frye
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Batya Lancet as Yaffa Arieli |
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Gideon Singer as Benjamin Arieli |
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Zeev Berlinsky as Yaakov |
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Chaim Topol as Micha |
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Ilana Rovina as Tamar Arieli |
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Meira Shor as Tzip Arieli |
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Seymour Gitin as Mike |
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Geula Nuni as Nili |
| Writing | Aharon Meged | Writer |
| Directing | Peter Frye | Director |
| Writing | Peter Frye | Writer |
| Camera | Nissim Leon | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Nellie Gilad | Editor |
| Sound | Yisrael Ringel | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Haim Avish | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Yair Podolsky | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Yitzhak Agadati | Producer |
| Production | Mordecai Navon | Producer |
| Production | Ya'akov Shteiner | Producer |