Overview:
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.| Status: | Released (1960-12-15) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 7 nominations total |
| Screen: | Dalton Trumbo, Leon Uris |
| Productions: | Otto Preminger Films, United Artists, Carlyle-Alpina, S.A. |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 3636: Paul Newman - Ari Ben Canaan
- 2639: Eva Marie Saint - Kitty Fremont
- 12689: Ralph Richardson - Gen. Sutherland
- 4353: Peter Lawford - Maj. Caldwell
- 5248: Lee J. Cobb - Barak Ben Canaan
- 2770: Sal Mineo - Dov Landau
- 39608: John Derek - Taha
Crews
- 8506: Richard Day - Art Direction - Art
- 20121: Leon Uris - Novel - Writing
- 11993: Dalton Trumbo - Screenplay - Writing
- 871: Louis R. Loeffler - Editor - Editing
- 12142: Ernest Gold - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 834: Otto Preminger - Producer - Production
- 834: Otto Preminger - Director - Directing
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Reviews
Andres Gomez
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A want-to-be epic story that fails quite miserable. Excessively long and not well edited with tons of meaningless scenes and quite a bad positioning of the camera which outcomes in wrong lightning and shadows from the filming team. The best is its soundtrack, by far.
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Despite having quite a formidable, international, cast - this is really a rather plodding history that's really only memorable because of the Ernest Gold score. The story all centres around a group of Jewish immigrants who are stuck in British-mandated territory and they want to get ....
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