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Jun 22, 2015lukasevansherman rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
"To my knowledge there’s just one man that’s really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell.I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus."Bob Dylan, "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues." Long (3.5 hours), plodding, pro-Israel adaptation of Leon Uris's self-important novel about the founding of modern Israel. As others have pointed out, it doesn't really take the Palestinians into consideration and it's actually the British who are more the adversaries here. Although everything about it screams "epic," it fails on most levels and its cast of largely non-Jews is mostly unconvincing, especially Sal Mineo. I did learn that Paul Newman's father was an Ashkenazi Jew. Newman is fine, but later said he regretted taking the role and he seems vaguely pissed off for much of the movie. Eva Saint Marie, Lee J. Cobb, Ralph Richardson, and Peter Lawford co-star. Screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. At one of the screenings, comedian Mort Sahl shouted out "Otto (director/producer Preminger), let my people go!" You'll feel the same way.