Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exodus (Preminger; United Artists) seems certain to become one of the most productive mints ever installed behind a marquee. Otto Preminger's much-flacked-about film version of Leon Uris' forest-felling novel-it lasted 80 weeks on the bestseller lists and moved almost 4,000,000 copies-has all the production values expected in an epic: full color, wide screen, 45,000 extras, ten name players (Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer). What's more, it got these advantages...
Happily, the public will get its money's worth. Greeted by Hollywood wise guys with vulgar hoots ("Preminger's matzo opera . . . the first Jewish western"), Exodus nevertheless turns out-despite its duration (four hours, including intermission) and an irritating tendency to Zionist tirade-to be a serious, expert, frightening and inspiring political thriller...
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 from a script that, when due allowance is made for the slovenly (though heartfelt) book on which it is based, seems an amazing achievement: clear, intelligent, subtle, witty, swift, strong, eloquent. Ironically, the script is bringing Hollywood embarrassment as well as riches. It is the work of a well-known...
...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 Famagusta, throw all their food overboard and proclaim to the watching world that they will die of starvation or even blow up the ship unless the British let them sail for the promised land...
...current international gold crisis has made the problem increasingly critical. The disproportionate U.S. contribution to Western defense and foreign aid is a major part of the gold exodus that has lowered U.S. bullion reserves from $24 billion in 1948 to $18.5 billion today. In September, U.S. officials spoke bluntly to Bonn's visiting Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. But the real holdout appears to be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower himself has private- ly written Adenauer asking for more German help. Later this month, both Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon will travel...