You won't be disappointed!

Very well executed

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The time perspective is interesting here. The film was made only 12 years after the independence in 1948, but although the film is 56 years old it's still both very modern and relevant - the situation hasn't changed much, rather has it worsened and intensified during all these years. All the actors perform excellently well like in all Otto Preminger's films, and this was his last great push, specially engaging Dalton Trumbo for the script, who had just triumphed with "Spartacus". For all its spectacular grandness, high ambitions and pretensions, it got only one Oscar, which was the more well deserved: the music for "Exodus" is unique and among the best film music ever written. Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, John Derek, Sal Mineo, Ralph Richardson, Lee J. Cobb, the special performance by David Opatoshu, and even Marius Goring - they are all perfectly outstanding. The one flaw of this great and historically extremely interesting film is the hand of Leon Uris in the book on which the film is based.Leon Uris wrote a considerable number of novels on Jewish themes, "Mila !8" about the freedom fighters of the Warsaw ghetto being the best of them, in that book it was perfectly justified to be one-sidedly in favor of the fighters, but in the case of Israeli independence the scenario was more complicated implicating at least three sides of the conflict - Israel, Britain and the Arabs, while Leon Uris stuck to one-sided partiality to Israel in all his books on the issue more or less ignoring more complicated aspects, which remains the disturbing want of Leon Uris and leaves him with a stamp of shallowness. He wrote other novels as well, especially a series of Irish novels which many deem his best, while a few years before "Exodus" he also produced the outstanding film script for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the Tombstone incident.Well, well, the best and most interesting part of the film remains the beginning, which is all set in Cyprus with the S/S Exodus drama. Also Paul Newman is at his best here, and the scenes on board with the imminent chaos is worth studying again and again. Incidents like this have since occurred many times again and again in different circumstances, and it's well worth studying in detail, to learn the risks, carefully analyze the problems and ride out the crisis. In this case Paul Newman and Ralph Richardson solved the problem together, but then there were worse problems to come that aren't even solved today.

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!

Someone above wrote "That, and the events that the Six-Day War led to, have eroded the moral assurance that many of the main characters of "Exodus" espouse about Israel and its founding, and would eventually lead to the moral quagmire found 45 years later in Steven Spielberg's "Munich." Today, "Munich" is much closer to the grayness of who is right or wrong in the modern-day Middle East than the black-and-white assumptions that drive the characters of "Exodus" in 1947 -- or its creators in 1960."What a pile of duki.The only "moral quagmire" is the one espoused by moral -equivocating enablers of jihad who see Israel as part of their stumbling block in "deconstructing" the Judeo-Christian West.It's very simple. The Jews were there before the Arabs, BEFORE Islam, the Jews were dispersed, they ALWAYS looked to return, they returned, they offered to share, the UN offered to share, the Arabs were not interested in sharing, only in exterminating the Jews, as most of them are even today.Spielberg's Munich is a perfect example of a guilt-ridden, successful JINO film-maker operating under the Stockholm syndrome, making the the Mossad agents who take out the assassins from the Olympics appear as evil as the PLO killers.Here's a hot tip - there IS good and evil in this world, and if you can't see it, then pluck out your eyes and don't bore the rest of us with your insipid, Howard Zinn-inspired, Marxist film critiques.We need MORE movies like Exodus, not like Munich.

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.