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Exodus
1960
Based on Leon Uris' sweeping novel, "Exodus" is the epic saga of the founding of Israel in the days following World War II. Paul Newman stars as an Israeli resistance fighter, a member of the Hagannah, involved in the effort to bring a group of 600 European Jews from British-blockaded Cyprus into newly-partitioned Palestine, .. Read more
| Starring | Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Lee J. Cobb |
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| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Genres | Drama |
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Exodus
Based on Leon Uris' sweeping novel, "Exodus" is the epic saga of the founding of Israel in the days following World War II. Paul Newman stars as an Israeli resistance fighter, a member of the Hagannah, involved in the effort to bring a group of 600 European Jews from British-blockaded Cyprus into newly-partitioned Palestine, right before the United Nations is to vote on making it a Jewish homeland.
| Starring | Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Benson, Hugh Griffith, Sal Mineo, Alexandra Stewart, Jill Haworth, Felix Aylmer, John Derek, Martin Miller, David Opatoshu, Gregory Ratoff |
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| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 19 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 02 Feb 2004 Production year: 1960 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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Leon Uris's bestseller gets the Otto Preminger treatment in this accomplished, epic-scale retelling of events leading to the birth of Israel in 1948. With a script by Dalton Trumbo, it's a gritty, forthright and marvellously cinematic experience, although an overlong one. Superbly filmed on location in Super Panavision 70mm, it really benefits from viewing on the huge screen for which it was intended. Some critics weren't happy about the all-star cast and sentiment, though it's hard to imagine better casting than Paul Newman as Haganah leader Ari Ben Canaan or Eva Marie Saint as nurse Kitty Fremont. Sal Mineo was nominated for best supporting actor as freedom fighter Dov Landau, but the Oscar went to Ernest Gold's marvellously grandiose music, which has achieved classic status.
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"...EXODUS holds up remarkably well, thanks to astute craftsmanship and a story that is unfolding still....EXODUS is an absorbing, potent work..."
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Biased but an interesting watch
I enjoyed watching this film but it comes across as very biased. It appears to have been funded in the USA and successfully protrays the world Jewish population as a forgotten and downtrodden people (although a little ironically it also shows them involved in indiscrimate terrorism against the British as the only way to achieve an independent state - which is what Isreal is now having to contend with themselves from Palestine). A typical American view of pompus, arrogant and high handed British approach comes through, but all in all a film worth watching. How much is historically true you will have to decide yourself.
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Biased but an interesting watch
I enjoyed watching this film but it comes across as very biased. It appears to have been funded in the USA and successfully protrays the world Jewish population as a forgotten and downtrodden people (although a little ironically it also shows them involved in indiscrimate terrorism against the British as the only way to achieve an independent state - which is what Isreal is now having to contend with themselves from Palestine). A typical American view of pompus, arrogant and high handed British approach comes through, but all in all a film worth watching. How much is historically true you will have to decide yourself.
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