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...copies, backed his investment with a wad that less than a century ago would have bought the island the picture is named after. For $14,000,000 he got Panavision, Color by Deluxe, top-chop talent (Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris), two shrewd scripters (Dalton Trumbo and Daniel Taradash), and a director (George Roy Hill) whose dependability is warm milk to any producer's ulcer...
...Kirk Douglas is totally and movingly convincing. Philip Lathrop's camera work has harsh dramatic clarity and Jerry Goldsmith's score just the right mixture of nostalgic balladry and percussive tension, and even when the hand of ironic coincidence seems to overshape a scene or two, Dalton Trumbo's script is refreshingly tart and literate. Pooling their skills, they have fashioned a film of distinction and signed it with honor...
...roughly three groups. On the far right is a small fringe of shouting, demonstrating fanatics who admire the late Joe McCarthy, favor colonialism, back such causes as the "right" to exclude Negroes from certain neighborhoods, demand that students sign loyalty oaths, picket the movies Spartacus and Exodus because Dalton Trumbo (TIME, Jan. 2) wrote them. They take as their philosopher Novelist Ayn (Atlas Shrugged) Rand, who for a brooch wears a gold dollar sign to symbolize the values of selfcenteredness. On the other end of the spectrum are Kennedy supporters who find in the President's appeal to duty...
Exodus. Otto Preminger's superb direction and Dalton Trumbo's superlative script have made the sprawling bestseller about Israel into a stirring if lengthy (four-hour) movie...
Exodus. Otto Preminger's superb direction and Dalton Trumbo's superlative script have made the rambling bestseller about Israel into a stirring, four-hour epic...