Exodus (1960)

Exodus (1960), a US one-sheet with a 1961 copyright line for Preminger's epic with Paul Newman. Black arms stretch up from the bottom of a blue field to hold a rifle aloft, and the whole panel is burning away from below, realistic flames eating into the white title letters. Setting his flat cut-paper silhouettes against fire that looks photographed gives the sheet a violence the earlier Preminger posters keep at a distance, and struggle and destruction share one frame. "Designed by Saul Bass" runs up the left margin.