
The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. An Intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. The second part of the film is about the situation in Israel as independence is declared and most of their neighbors attack them.... (Full plot summary below)
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The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. An Intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. The second part of the film is about the situation in Israel as independence is declared and most of their neighbors attack them.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyPreminger's ambitious chronicle of the formation of the State of Israel contains some stirring moments, but as an epic it's too sprawling, overlong, and lacks dramatic center. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrIntelligence applied exactly where it is most rare: in the lavish, star-studded epic. Otto Preminger’s 1960 film, based on the Leon Uris novel, makes fine use of dovetailed points of view in describing the birth pains of Israel. |
| Time OutTom MilneWatchable mainly for the sheer skill and drive of Preminger's direction, although at 220 minutes even that long outstays its welcome. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonIn 1960, Dalton Trumbo served up two hefty screenplays full of incident, emotion and intellectual exchanges -- I prefer Spartacus, although there's something to be said for his streamlining of so much historical content (and, yes, fictional deviations). |
| The New York TimesBosley CrowtherA dazzling, eye-filling, nerve-tingling display of a wide variety of individual and mass reactions to awesome challenges and, in some of its sharpest personal details, a fine reflection of experience that rips the heart. |
| Orlando SentinelCrosby DayTransposing Leon Uris' hefty novel to the screen was not an easy task. It is to the credit of director Otto Preminger and scenarist Dalton Trumbo that they have done as well as they have. One can, however, wish that they had been blessed with more dramatic incisiveness. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasWatchable mainly for the sheer skill and drive of Preminger's direction, although at 220 minutes even that long outstays its welcome. |
| Bangitout.comJordan HillerThe style of filmmaking is simply too polite and serene to carry the edgy, dangerous material of Uris's novel |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonAppallingly boring. That's a subjective word, but I can't think of a better one. |
| User ReviewJennifer Wa must see movie that describes the history of european jews from the time after the holocaust in sizilia until the foundation of israel |