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Bookmark this pageVoyage of the Damned (1976)
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
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From Time Out Film Guide
In May 1939, to define the Jewish 'problem' to the world, Goebbels had 937 German Jews shipped to the apparent safety of Cuba. Refused entry into Havana, the luxury liner was forced back towards Hamburg and the camps. Rosenberg here confuses seriousness with tedious solemnity, and with the star glut has produced a compacted TV series. Too many dramas vie for attention on board. The political doings in Havana are confusing; and the prelude to each Cuban scene - maracas, rumbas, cut-price Carmen Mirandas - irritates. Very idiosyncratic performances from the big shots: Welles' wryly charitable Cuban magnate; Captain von Sydow, humane and anguished; steward McDowell hitting new heights in public school deference; Dunaway in jackboots and monocle. The best moments, such as they are, come in the big passenger scenes; though awkwardly filmed, they generate hysteria, a sense of despair.Author: JS
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- Posted on Nov 05 2008 17:03 Voyage to the damned -a wonderful film wich captured my attention like none in past years.
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Cast & crew
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Producer: Robert Fryer
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, James Mason, Orson Welles, Katharine Ross, Ben Gazzara, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick, Julie Harris, Helmut Griem, Luther Adler, Wendy Hiller, Maria Schell, Fernando Rey, José Ferrer, Denholm Elliott full cast
Duration: 155 mins
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