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Exodus

Drama. A Haganah officer (Paul Newman) seizes a ship to help Holocaust survivors get from Cyprus to Palestine, but the vessel is blockaded in a Cypriot harbour by British warships.

Visiting a friend of her late husband in Cyprus, Kitty Fremont is persuaded to work as a nurse in one of the camps holding the Holocaust survivors turned back from the British Mandate of Palestine. A young Haganah officer seizes a ship to take the Jewish refugees to Palestine, and gradually Kitty is drawn into the struggle for the partition of the country.

3 hours, 20 minutes

Last on

Sat 4 Jul 2009 12:30

Credits

Role Contributor
Ari Ben Canaan Paul Newman
Director Otto Preminger
Kitty Fremont Eva Marie Saint
Barak Ben Canaan Lee J Cobb
Dov Landau Sal Mineo
Producer Otto Preminger
Writer Dalton Trumbo
Actor Ralph Richardson
Actor Peter Lawford

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