# Sequel to "Exodus"

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**Created:** [August 8, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-to-exodus/367894 "2006-08-08T18:33:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-to-exodus/367894/1 "2006-08-08T18:33:22Z")

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Someone help me out here. I could swear that, in the 1970s, I read about a motion picture entitled **Ari** , based upon the character in Leon Uris’ novel “Exodus”. In the 1960 motion picture version of **Exodus** , Ari ben Canaan was played by Paul Newman:

> **[Exodus (1960) ⭐ 6.7 | Action, Drama, War](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053804/)**
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> 3h 28m | Approved

According to my memory, **Ari** wasn’t so much a sequel to **Exodus** as a filming of the parts of the novel not filmed in that first flick. (Kinda like the film **The Hawaiians** had the stuff that **Hawaii** didn’t have room for, from Michener’s novel).

It did _not_ star Newman. I don’t recall who starred. And my recollection was that I had read a review of a completed film,not a report on a planned film that might not get done. I even recall a still from the movie.  
But I can’t find _any_ record of this on the internet! iMDB lists no sequels to Exodus, and has nothing under Leon Uris’ name. I know that iMDB isn’t perfect, but my other searches of the internet as a whole turn up nothing.

I can’t have imagined this, can I? Did I switch into a parallel universe somewhere? (If so, why don’t I have a goatee and an evil laugh?)

Has anyone else ever heard of this?

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-to-exodus/367894/2 "2006-08-08T19:13:36Z")

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There was a Broadway play called “Ari” that was based on the book Exodus, but it folded after a few weeks. Are you sure you’re not thinking of that?

The only productions made of Uris’s novels were Battle Cry (about Marines in the Pacific during WWII), Exodus, Topaz (about a Soviet spy ring and the Cuban Missile Crisis), and QB VII (about a libel case).

He did write “The Haj”, which was about this family of Palestinians made refugees by the founding of Israel, and “Milta Pass”, which was about the battle of Milta Pass in the 1956 war, but neither of them were made into movies.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-to-exodus/367894/3 "2006-08-08T20:02:46Z")

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Nope – I’m fairly sure that it was a movie, and containing scenes not in the 1960 film. I recall a still showing an outdoor scene, which couldn’t have been from a play. The play’s about the right time. But it’s a _musical_ (!)

I’ve read The Haj. I don’t even think there’s a character named “Ari” in that.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-to-exodus/367894/4 "2006-08-08T20:24:50Z")

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Was it maybe _Leviticus_?

(D&R)