Reviewed in Photoplay Magazine in April 1929 as All Faces West, but not released until 1931, with music and sound effects and a talking prologue added.
All Faces West premiered at the Victory Theatre in downtown Salt Lake City on March 2, 1929.
The buffalo stampede scenes were filmed by the Lewis and Clark Production Company in 1926. The Pioneer Film Corporation purchased this footage from George Edward Lewis in 1928. "Scotty" Philip's buffalo herd in South Dakota was used for these scenes.
As a result of foreclosure proceedings filed in federal court, "The Exodus" filmed at a cost of nearly $200,000 was sold at public auction on the steps of Salt Lake City's city county building for only $10,000. The date of sale was July 24, 1930.
Days after the premiere showing of the film (as "All Faces West"), the producers, "Pioneer Film Corporation", ran newspaper ads selling stock in the company to the Salt Lake City public. These were placed on the movie pages of the Salt Lake Telegram on 5 March and The Deseret News on 6 March 1929. Among the claims made in it, they proposed "to make two big feature pictures and six or more smaller ones each year." In it they declared "WE ARE A PERMANENT UTAH INDUSTRY", urging Utahans to "get in on the ground floor" of it, as well as other standard stock pitch phrases.
As they didn't make more films, and had such a bad time getting this one launched outside of SLC, the hard sell stock offering seems more like part of a big fraud than anything else.