Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working-class neighborhood of East Los Angeles, crossed town and stepped into the glare of a Hollywood premiére. After 13 years of a shadow career filled with aliases and under-the-desk assignments, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also stepping into the open. He had written the picture, Exodus, under his own name; and on the blacklist that had featured him for so long, the print was quickly fading...
...Congress after refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee if they had ever been Communists-Trumbo also wrote the recent, $12-million Spartacus, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have to strain to avoid awarding him an Oscar next spring. In both Spartacus and Exodus, Trumbo turned rambling, middle-grade raw material into tight and excellent scripts, lightened with humor and touched with irony...
...EXODUS. Director Otto Preminger and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo have reduced a fatty mess of prose by Leon Uris to a lean, keen saga that keeps the audience on seat's edge as ten name players and 45,000 extras pseudohistorically re-enact the founding of Israel...
...Exodus. Although it runs nearly four hours and is full of pro-Zionist tirades, the film version of the bestseller about the birth of Israel is a serious, frightening and inspiring political thriller...
...Exodus. Despite its four-hour duration and pro-Zionist tirade, the film version of the bestseller about the birth of Israel is an expert, inspiring political thriller...