Paul Newman: Leon Uris

Paul Newman Dept: I told him I thought it was great, Trattner said. Leo didn t say anything. He leaned across the table, scowled and said the movie didn t feature one line of actual dialogue from his book. He hated it. , according to The Star. This is his pitch: the 1960 film starring Paul Newman told the story of a boatload of 4,500 European Jews who survived World War II and left France in 1947 on a boat named Exodus headed for Palestine and jAFFA, ISRAEL Movie producer Ira Trattner was a young entertainment lawyer when he met Leon Uris and was asked by the author what he thought of Exodus , the Paul Newman movie based on Uris s book. For the past six years, while living in this Arab suburb of Tel Aviv and researching a film about the Jewish underground in post-World War II Palestine, Trattner has tried to convince Hollywood to take another look at Exodus , which recounted an important chapter in Jewish history. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.