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To me, this movie is perfection.

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It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

While in Israel I met some Russian Jewish teen's refuges at a youth village that did not understand where or why they were in Israel. The best way to help them was to get them to read the book Exodus. I went Into town and bought the book Exodus in Russian. It came in two Volumes. I gave it to one of the Russian teens. The next day she with a few others came to me and asked if the story about the hero's girl friend was true. She had been raped, cut up in small pieces and put in a sack on a mule's back and sent home. I told yes it was, as a few weeks before I stumble on to the monument for the young women.Today, I help Israel with the Israel Longhorn Project but I need your help to do it. Please go to http://longhornproject.org and help.I corrected as best as I can. I am dyslexic. Making it hard to write.

Exodus is about as historically accurate in its presentation of the founding of the Modern State of Israel, as 1776 the musical is about the American Revolution.It is complete Hollywood kitsch with Paul Newman, the hero taking on such mustache twirling baddie, Peter Lawford, as the befuddled British officer. Heaven help us! John Derek is the "good Arab", complete in Arabian dress costume as if he was auditioning for Omar Sharif's role in "Lawrence of Arabia". It seems he is following up on his other risible role in the 10 Commandments where he was dressed in a loin cloth and tied to a paper mache rock while being ogled by Vincent Price. And for goodness sake, why would beautiful American war widow, Eva Marie Saint, be wandering around mandate Palestine, just in time for the war to erupt? No one in the film knows or cares. The only part of this silly film worth watching is the performance by Sal Mineo, who received his 2nd Academy Award nomination for playing a Polish Jew who has survived Auschwitz and in a gut wrenching scene describes how he was savagely raped in the camp. The shame, the revulsion and the desperation for revenge are raw. Mineo's character finds momentary solace with the angelic Jill Haworth who depicts a Danish Jew, who repeats the myth of the King wearing the Jewish star, and how she was saved by kindly neighbors. Mineo's career stalled not long after this film, which is too bad because he was incredibly talented.

From director Otto Preminger (Laura, Carmen Jones, Anatomy of a Murder), I mainly wanted to see this film because of the leading actor and actress starring, and it was rated well by the critics, so I did watch it. Basically the Second World War has ended, and the United Nations may want to create a new Jewish nation and homeland in Palestine, as many of them are exiled from much of Europe, especially Germany, so they get sent to Cyprus. Palestinian Jew and Haganah rebel Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman) is determined to smuggle many of the Jews into Palestine, as this seems the easiest way to sway the vote for the United Nations by the number in the country. He manages to get a ship and fill it with six hundred Jewish people, and after many incidents on the journey they make it to the country, and his childhood Arab friend Taha (John Derek) joins them, but even when they reach their destination the UN vote will be difficult to sway. Also joining in the mission and what is essentially the founding of the state of Israel is widowed American nurse Kitty Fremont (Eva Marie Saint), who is for a while naive about the situation of conflict and hostility, and she ultimately falls in love with Ari. Alright, I will be completely honest, I didn't have a clue what was going on, other than the founding of a nation, and that's about it. Also starring Ralph Richardson as Gen. Sutherland, Peter Lawford as Maj. Caldwell, Lee J. Cobb as Barak Ben Canaan, Golden Globe winning, and Oscar nominated Sal Mineo as Dov Landau, Marius Goring as Von Storch and Golden Globe nominated Jill Haworth as Karen. Newman gave a good performance, as did Marie Saint and Cobb in their moments, Preminger does I suppose suit the piece, and there are some sweeping scenes of the cities and landscapes, and I can't say a bad word about the award winning music, the problem for me was not just the length of the film, at just over three hours, but I just didn't find myself drawn to everything going on, but it isn't a bad epic drama. It won the Oscar for Best Music for Ernest Gold, and it was nominated for Best Cinematography, and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Original Score. Worth watching, in my opinion!

A classic in every since of the word. The best selling novel by Leon Uris is adapted for the silver screen by the fabled producer/director Otto Preminger. A lumbering 3 1/2 hours concerning the early days of Israel with actual history debatable. Paul Newman plays Ari Ben Canaan, the leader of the Jewish underground, who exhausts mortal energy in efforts to lead over six hundred holocaust survivors to the Holy Land. Exiled Jews board a sea vessel called Exodus that must deal with a British government blockade. Ari is determined to get the refugees to Palestine rather than be returned to war-ravaged Germany. The underground will help shape an independent nation in 1947. A cast of thousands featuring: Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth, David Opatoshu, Hugh Griffith and Peter Lawford.