So, what’s a manly man like our hero doing with what basically amounted to ’50s chick lit? We’re guessing market research… which may also be exactly what his marriage amounts to, in the end. Read: An excerpt of The Best of Everything Exodus — Leon Uris...

Wind with Exodus, another heroic epic about the founding of the state of Israel. The book was commissioned by a New York PR man who wanted to improve the image of Israel among Americans. It worked. (The wildly successful movie, in which Paul Newman...

Regrettably, it is a gem in an otherwise drab production. The film does not end so much as fizzle out. It was as if Hitchcock and his writer Samuel A. Taylor (who was brought in at the last second after Hitchcock proclaimed Leon Uris’s script to be...