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Released
1960 · FILM

Exodus

A Jewish freedom fighter leads a desperate mission to smuggle hundreds of refugees to Palestine aboard the Exodus, defying British blockades in a high-stakes battle for survival and sovereignty.

“The drama and the passion of one of the epic events of the twentieth century!”

Directed by
Otto Preminger
Written by
Dalton Trumbo, Leon Uris
Runtime
208 min
ActionDramaWar
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Ari Ben Canaan, a dedicated member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, organizes a perilous journey to transport 600 Jewish refugees from Cyprus to Palestine aboard a ship named the Exodus. His efforts are met with resistance from British forces, who refuse to allow the vessel to reach its intended destination.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Louis R LoefflerShot by Sam LeavittScored by Ernest Gold

Box Office

1960 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$20.0M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$20.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Éxodoes

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