History Film / Exodus1960

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Major Caldwell, who gets gruesomely murdered by the Maccabees in the novel. Mind, since the only reason he got murdered by them was because he murdered a helpless prisoner who was a Maccabee...well, let's just say that it's [[KickTheSonOfABitch hard to have any sympathy for him]]. David Ben-Ami snuffs it the novel as well - making a suicidal charge to retake Jerusalem in the War of Independence - but is spared because the film ends before his death. [[spoiler:And near the end of the novel, after the end of the War of Independence, Barak - at this point well over 80 - dies of cancer.]]

''Exodus'' is a 1960 epic film directed and produced by Creator/OttoPreminger with a screenplay by Creator/DaltonTrumbo, based on a 1958 novel by Leon Uris about the founding of the modern state of UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}. The story follows a collection of characters in 1947 and 1948 as they fight the British (in order to gain independence for Israel and support for the Partition Plan) and then the Arabs (to keep their newly-established nation).

* EpicMovie: Nearly 3 and a half hours. Apparently at the premiere, a Jewish comedian (Mort Sahl) stood up at the 3 hour mark and asked director Otto Preminger to "let my people go!"

* WhipItGood: In the novel, both Barak and Ari, while quite thoroughly proficient with and comfortable using firearms, are skillful with a bullwhip.

* MatzoFever: Kitty falls for Ari pretty quickly. It helps that in the film he's played by Creator/PaulNewman and in the novel he's described as TallDarkAndHandsome and a CulturedBadass.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: In the novel, when Kitty and Jordana are waiting to learn if the children from Gan Dafna have been evacuated safely, Jordana breaks out the cognac under her bed. Kitty is more than glad to share it, and this is when they bond and become FireForgedFriends.
** Taken UpToEleven in the novel when Kitty is operating on Ari, assisted by Karen. She has to take a swig of booze in the midst of the operation to steady her nerves.

* TraumaCongaLine: In the film, Dov and Karen, who are orphaned Holocaust survivors. In the novel...[[UpToEleven everyone]]. Ari's LostLenore, Dafna, is mentioned in the film, but her death and its effect on Ari are graphically depicted in the novel. Also in the novel, Ari spends 18 months in Acre prison, and is gravely wounded fighting in World War II. Barak and Akiva's father was murdered in a pogrom in their native Russia. General Sutherland is [[ShellShockedVeteran haunted by the liberation of the concentration camps and his testimony at the Nuremberg Trials]] - at the beginning of the novel he's still having nightmares about liberating Bergen-Belsen. And this is just the backstory.

* FriendlySniper: Jordana, who's a crack shot with a rifle.