10/14/09

Otto And Leon

Another film of Otto Preminger's that is underrated is his adaptation of Leon Uris's Exodus, on the founding of the modern state of Israel.

Starring Paul Newman, it's a solid film, although, in honesty, not on a par with the contemporaneous epics of David Lean- not in vision, scope, nor overall quality.

Here is its opening:


Here is the trailer: