Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Taken as a whole, Exodus is a terrific show. Director Preminger (The Man with the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder) is at the top of his form in every department. Cinematography and cutting are impeccable, and the actors are masterfully maneuvered. But the fundamental strength of the film derives...
The story is tidily divided into three parts. Part One describes the 1947 "ingathering of the exiles" in a magnificent anecdote-the fiercely exciting dramatization of an episode in which some 600 Jewish internees escape from a British camp on Cyprus, board a rustbucket called Exodus in the harbor at...
Part Two describes the reign of terror imposed on Palestine by the ultranationalist cults of violence (Irgun Zvai Leumi, Stern Gang), and culminates in a film version of the famous mass breakout of Acre prison that will be studied for years as a master's thesis on the cinema...
Part Three describes the tragic aftermath of independence, the events that swiftly led up to civil war between Jews and Arabs. Then comes the one big structural defect of the production. Just as the war begins, the picture ends. Many moviegoers will feel cheated of a climax -but then they...
With all its various vitalities, the script perpetuates the more serious defects of the novel, and these are not technical but moral defects. The film is pro-Semitic. Well and good; it is good for the soul, whether Jewish or Christian, to be reminded that the Jewish culture and community...