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Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1961 | Ernest
Best Supporting Actor | 1961 | Sal
Best ReRecording of an Existing Score | 2009 | James
Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Music Score from Motion Picture or Television | 1961 | Ernest
Top Male Supporting Performance | 1961 | Sal
Best Classic DVD | 2009
Top Male Dramatic Performance | 1961 | Paul
Top Male Supporting Performance | 1961
Budget 4,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 20,000,000 USD
At the premiere, as the movie neared its third hour with the end not yet in sight, comedian Mort Sahl stood up from his seat in the packed theater and shouted, "Otto Preminger, let my people go!" The incident quickly became a popular piece of Hollywood lore.
Although many critics felt that Paul Newman was miscast as Ari Ben Canaan, producer and director Otto Preminger maintained that he had envisioned only Newman playing the part from the time he read the novel.
Producer and director Otto Preminger helped to end the stigma of the Hollywood blacklist by hiring Dalton Trumbo to adapt the screenplay for this movie, before Trumbo was hired for Spartacus (1960).
Paul Newman and producer and director Otto Preminger did not get along while making this movie. Preminger was not interested in hearing Newman's ideas. Newman later said he regretted making this movie.
Paul Newman took the part of Ari Ben Canaan in honor of his father, who was Jewish.
"Ari Ben Canaan: This is Taha, Mukhtar of Abu Yesha. And this is Karen, Secretary of the Rooms Committee, Bungalow 12, Gan Dafna. We have no Kadi to pray for Taha's soul. And we have no Rabbi to pray over Karen. Taha should have lived a long life, surrounded by his people and his sons. And death should have come to him... as an old friend offering the gift of sleep. It came, instead, as a maniac. And Karen, who loved her life, and who lived it as purely as a flame, why did God forget her? Why did she have to stumble upon death so young? And all alone? And in the dark? We of all people... should no longer be surprised when death reaches out to us. With the world's insanity and our own slaughtered millions, we should be used to senseless killing. But I am not used to it. I cannot and will not get used to it. I look at these two people, and I want to howl like a dog. I want to shout 'murder', so that the whole world will hear it and never forget it. It's right that these two people should lie side by side in this grave, because they will share it in peace. But the dead always share the earth in peace. And that's not enough. It's time for the living to have a turn. A few miles from here, there are people who are fighting and dying, and we must join them. But I swear, on the bodies of these two people, that the day will come when Arab and Jew will share, in a peaceful life, this land that they have always shared in death. Taha, old friend, and very dear brother. Karen, child of light, daughter of Israel. Shalom."
"Akiva Ben Canaan: In this fatal optimism, you are Haganah. In methodology you are Irgun. But in your heart, you are Israel."
