Exodus is a 1960 epic film on the creation of Israel made by Alpha and Carlyle Productions and distributed by United Artists. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, the film was based on the 1958 novel Exodus by Leon Uris. The screenplay was written by Dalton Trumbo. The film features an ensemble cast, and its celebrated soundtrack music was written by Ernest Gold.
Widely characterized as a "Zionist epic", the film has been identified by many commentators as having been enormously influential in stimulating Zionism and support for Israel in the United States. The Preminger film softened the anti-British and anti-Arab sentiment of the novel, the film remains controversial for its depiction of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and for what some scholars perceive to be its lasting impact on American views of the regional turmoil. It would also become famous for Preminger openly hiring screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who had been blacklisted for a decade for being a Communist and forced to work under assumed names. Together with Spartacus, also written by Trumbo, Exodus is credited with ending the Hollywood blacklist.
Lecherous inhuman monsters Piteous crimes carried out Patriarchs to the lunatic fringe They venerate what has been done They turned a small town in northern California Into the haunt of the damned Devoid of all comprehension The most vicious hateful part of man
[Chorus] Dragging their victims into lunacy And putting it all on film Wretched dregs of society Killers of children Rapists of women Sado-sexual violence
Immoral killing with indifference Aroused as your victims cry Unjust pain they love to inflict Breaking their souls, then their minds Malevolent and rancid perversions The outcome is always death Bodies thrown down into a hole Maggots consuming the flesh
[Chorus] Dragging their victims into lunacy And putting it all on film Wretched dregs of society Killers of children Rapists of women Sado-sexual violence
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Fear-A macabre madness Fiendish carnage with rabid butchery Pain-sadistically tortured Rejoicing in their victims slavery Rape-forced violations Malicious desecration of the thrall Slave-depraved exploitation A sickening anguish for them all Sado-sexual violence Sick-twisted rituals Vile defiling of the enslaved Lie-decimate aspirations abused At the hands of the deranged Kill-and slaughter the damned With gruesome and heinous suffering Death-merciless killing With despicable and cruel agony Sado-sexual violence
[Solo Lee] [Solo Gary]
Excoriate the legal system Exposing all of its flaws One kills himself with cyanide The other makes a mockery of the law The act of killing eroticized Dismissive to call you insane Committed horrific and brutal crimes Then laughing with total disdain