Byline: Crosby Day Orlando Sentinel
"Exodus" (1960), a marathon undertaking by producer/ director Otto Preminger, is among film epics such as "Quo Vadis," "War and Peace," "Ben-Hur," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Spartacus" that were churned out during the 1950s and '60s.
The film, which airs at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9 on Cinemax, tells the story of the escape of 30,000 European Jewish refugees from Cyprus to Palestine, the founding of the state of Israel and the subsequent conflict between Jews and Arabs. At the film's preview, its three-hour- and-32-minute length prompted satirist Mort Sahl to stand up and plead, "Otto, let my people go."
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