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Voyage of the Damned (1976)
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22 December 1976 (USA) moreTagline:
In The Shadow of Death... [UK] morePlot:
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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[DVD Review] Voyage of the Damned (From JustPressPlay. 22 April 2009, 9:12 AM, PDT)
'Cool Hand Luke' Director Stuart Rosenberg Dies
(From WENN. 19 March 2007)
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Title tells all; occasionally interesting and compassionate moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Faye Dunaway | ... | Denise Kreisler | |
| Oskar Werner | ... | Professor Egon Kreisler | |
| Lee Grant | ... | Lili Rosen | |
| Sam Wanamaker | ... | Carl Rosen | |
| Lynne Frederick | ... | Anna Rosen | |
| David de Keyser | ... | Joseph Joseph | |
| Della McDermott | ... | Julia Strauss | |
| Genevieve West | ... | Sarah Strauss | |
| Luther Adler | ... | Professor Weiler | |
| Wendy Hiller | ... | Rebecca Weiler | |
| Julie Harris | ... | Alice Fienchild | |
| Nehemiah Persoff | ... | Mr. Hauser | |
| Maria Schell | ... | Mrs. Hauser | |
| Paul Koslo | ... | Aaron Pozner | |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... | Joseph Manasse |
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Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | UK:AA (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1986) | USA:PGFun Stuff
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Nazi atrocities hang over the heads of some 937 Jewish refugees who are allowed to board the S.S. St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany, bound for Havana in 1939, but corrupt Cuban dignitaries (and apathetic other countries) manage to find unjust legalities which prevent the ocean-liner from docking. Dramatized true account with a star-studded cast filling the roles of the passengers (professors, lawyers, teachers, one rabbi, a Nazi spy, at least two children, a Christian ship's captain, and Faye Dunaway, looking wonderfully turned-out as the wife of a frustrated doctor). With anti-Semitism making a wave through Havana, nobody there is anxious to take on the Jews (they are looked on as charity cases), but the personalities in these excursions are static at best, with Ben Gazzara playing a globe-trotting businessman attempting to bargain on behalf of the voyagers (he seems to come from a different film altogether). Produced (or, one may say, packaged) by '70s tycoon Sir Lew Grade, the proceedings verge on the edge of disaster-movie clichés (with the appearance and the pacing of a television mini-series). The material warrants attention, but the melodrama inherent in the situation continually falters--gummed up with ungainly issues, overdrawn hysteria (Sam Wanamaker's suicide attempt), flagrant sentiment (Katharine Ross' Havana prostitute), and thuggish violence (it's bad enough that the two male teachers--scrawny and with their heads shaved--have been through hell, this narrative gives them more of the same, which is about as entertaining as watching victims at a firing squad). Dunaway, coolly regal and ice-pack gorgeous, approaches her part like visiting royalty, and gives the film a little goose. **1/2 from ****