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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1960 DVD Release: 10/15/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 3 hrs 28 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 17 Genres: Drama, Historical Film, Docudrama, Political Drama, War Drama

Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The film is concerned with the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in 1947. Its first half focuses on the efforts of 611 holocaust survivors to defy the blockade of the occupying British government and sail to Palestine on the sea vessel Exodus. Paul Newman, a leader of the Hagannah (the Jewish underground), is willing to sacrifice his own life and the lives of the refugees rather than be turned back to war-ravaged Europe, but the British finally relent and allow the Exodus safe passage. Once this victory is assured, 30,000 more Jews, previously interned by the British, flood into the Holy Land. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Paul Newman - Ari Ben Canaan
Eva Marie Saint - Kitty Fremont
Ralph Richardson - Gen. Sutherland
Peter Lawford - Maj. Caldwell
Lee J. Cobb - Barak Ben Canaan

Based on the compelling Leon Uris novel of the same name, Exodus is a fairly faithful adaptation of the birth of the new Jewish nation after the war. It's a shame that MGM didn't spend a little more time on this Paul Newman classic. It includes the original theatrical trailer, is released in widescreen only, and English surround sound and English, French and Spanish subtitles. ~ Sharon McRill, All Movie Guide