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6.8/10   3,256 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)
Leon Uris (novel)
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Release Date:
15 December 1960 (USA) more
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Plot:
The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations more
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: September 22, 2009
 (From Rope Of Silicon. 22 September 2009, 12:19 AM, PDT)

Mm@M: Joan Crawford, Caterpillar Woman
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Overlong and big budgeted epic about the birth of state of Israel more (55 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Paul Newman ... Ari Ben Canaan

Eva Marie Saint ... Kitty Fremont
Ralph Richardson ... Gen. Sutherland
Peter Lawford ... Maj. Caldwell

Lee J. Cobb ... Barak Ben Canaan

Sal Mineo ... Dov Landau
John Derek ... Taha
Hugh Griffith ... Mandria
Gregory Ratoff ... Lakavitch
Felix Aylmer ... Dr. Lieberman
David Opatoshu ... Akiva Ben Canaan
Jill Haworth ... Karen
Marius Goring ... Von Storch
Alexandra Stewart ... Jordana Ben Canaan
Michael Wager ... David Ben Ami
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Runtime:
208 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)
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John Gielgud turned down the role of General Sutherland. more
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Anachronisms: When the crowd sings "Hatikvah" after Barak announces the UN vote to partition Palestine, which takes place in 1947, they sing the new lyrics which were rewritten after Israel became independent in May 1948. more
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Cypriot guide: The island of Cyprus, madame. World famous for beauty, and long, tragic history. Been conquered many times, conquered by Phoenicians, Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians; also conquered by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Turks. Purchased from Turkey by your esteemed self, the British Empire. All Cyprus most wanted the British.
Kitty Fremont: [correcting him] I'm an American.
Cypriot guide: Fond of Americans, also; we Cypriots are fond of everybody.
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Overlong and big budgeted epic about the birth of state of Israel, 4 February 2009
6/10
Author: ma-cortes from Santander Spain

This historical film is based on real events and Leon Uris'novel.By the late 1945, millions of bewildered and homeless Jews people were on the move-across Europe and the Far East. They were looking for somewhere to live and for many of them that meant a new country. Jews demanded a land of their own. Jewish refugees were at a British camp on their way to Palestine. The Jews on board hoped to sail to Palestine in the first 'exodus ship'. Jewish refugees struggle ashore from island of Cyprus. But the ship (led by Jewish leader Paul Newman, helped by an American widow Eva Marie Saint) will be intercepted. On many of the refugees, by a famine-strike, the conditions were appalling, overcrowded, lacking food and water.The British troops(commanded by Ralph Richardson and Peter Lawford) guard the shipload of Jews in the port, they were rounded up, to be sent to the camp.This is an exodus that succeeded. In Palestine coming so soon after the holocaust, the homeless come home, but these traumatic echoes of Auschwitz and Buchenwald inflamed Zionist feelings. 1946,1947 and early 1948 were a years in which Zionist terrorist was at its height and Independent Israel still seemed heartbreaks away. In 22 July 1946, ninety-one people died when the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was blown up by Zionists. When one of the ringleader(David Opatoshu) of the Zionist anarchist group is placed under arrest, to be taken under close guard to the camp , the movement plans the breakout. The posterior setting is the strife-ridden area of Palestine between Jewish and Arabs fighting cruelly each other.The state of Israel was born in war and spent its youth struggling for survival.The nearly established United Nations did what it could to help, establishing camps for refugees and the supervision of Great Britain over Palestine. And later a voting that declared the independence of Israel under Ben Gurion( similar role played by Lee J Cobb).

This historic film written by Dalton Trumbo is efficiently directed by Otto Preminger. Good performances from Paul Newman as obstinate Israeli leader, Ralph Richardson as commandant of British forces in Cyprus and Sal Mineo as young terrorist who won the Golden Globe for support actor. Also the sensible, emotive soundtrack by Ernest Gold won Oscar 1960 for Original Dramatic Score.Colorful and evocative cinematography by Sam Leavitt, filmed in Israel and Cyprus with spectacular production design by Richard Day. Over budgeted, as cost more than five million dollars , an incredible amount at the time.This chronicle about the post-WWII partition of Palestine will like to historical events enthusiastic.

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