Exodus [videorecording] / United Artists Corporation ; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo ; produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

Other Titles: Exodus.

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, c2002.

ISBN: 0792853695
9780792853695

Description: 1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject: Haganah (Organization) Drama.
Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi Drama.
Exodus 1947 (Ship).
Holocaust survivors Israel Drama.
Zionists Drama.
Israel History 1948-1967 Drama.
Palestine History 1917-1948 Drama.
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Action and adventure films.
War films.
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Credits: Music by Ernest Gold ; director of photography, Sam Leavitt ; film editor, Louis R. Loeffler.

Performers: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer, David Opatoshu, Jill Haworth.

Notes: Closed-captioned; in English with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.
Based on the book by Leon Uris.
Includes: original theatrical trailer.

Summary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film also depicts the struggle of the Jews in Palestine to gain partition, then profiles the main characters after the partition, fighting to continue as the nation of Israel.