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... more
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Exodus [1960]
Otto Preminger's 1960 adaptation of Leon Uris's novelExodusis a sprawling tale of the
... more
founding of modern Israel, starring Paul Newman as a resistance leader. The film works best as an example of Preminger's estimable skill with all levels of drama and ...
Exodus [1960]
Otto Preminger's 1960 adaptation of Leon Uris's novelExodusis a sprawling tale of the
... more
founding of modern Israel, starring Paul Newman as a resistance leader. The film works best as an example of Preminger's estimable skill with all levels of drama and ...
Production Year: 1984 - Drama - Director: Neal Israel, Penny Marshall, Stan Dragoti, Sam Mendes, Tom Hanks, George Bloomfield, James L. Brooks - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over
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Advantages: Historical drama of the first order Disadvantages: At 3 hr, 28 min, perhaps a tad too long
Exodus is Otto Preminger's epic movie based on Leon Uris's novel depicting the birth of the modern State of Israel. Released in 1960, while memories of the political and historical struggles surrounding this event were still fresh, Exodus has come to define the drama of Israel's War for Independence for generations of moviegoers. I'm not certain how often I've watched this film, but surely I've seen it at least 20 times during the past four-and-a-half ... ...a stereotypical Jewish "type." Exodus was so successful in all these areas that anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish groups in the United States and around the world concluded that it had been a calculated move to increase public sympathy for Israel.
During my more recent viewings of Exodus, I've begun to notice ways in which the film is showing its age. Overall, the acting is less sophisticated than we've come to expect these days. Still, there are a number ...
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Actor(s): 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
Director(s): Otto Preminger
Genre: Drama - Historical
Classification: Parental Guidance
Production Year: 1960
Running Time: 3 hours 19 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: Screen adaptation of Leon Uris' best seller about the birth of Israel. Historical drama.
DVD Description
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.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): MGM ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 02/02/2004
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 10001022
Author: Leon Uris
Makeup: George Lane
Composer: Ernest Gold
Editor: Louis Loeffler
Barcode: 5050070020229
Producer: Otto Preminger
Set Designer: Dario Simoni
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Special Effects: Winston Ryder
Production Designer: Richard Day
Director of Photography: Sam Leavitt
Art Director: Richard Day, William E. Hutchinson
Screenwriter: Dalton Trumbo, Richard Day, Leon Uris
Costume Designer: Joe King, Margo Slater, May Walding, Hope Bryce, Rudi Gernreich
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Trailer
Sound: Dolby Digital Surround
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital Surround English French
"...EXODUS holds up remarkably well, thanks to astute craftsmanship and a story that is unfolding still....EXODUS is an absorbing, potent work..." (Los Angeles Times, p.C12, 10/09/1998)
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