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Voyage of the Damned
starring: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick
directed by: Stuart Rosenberg

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302529494
Format: Color, EP, NTSC
ISBN: 6302529492
Label: Avid Home Ent
Manufacturer: Avid Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Avid Home Ent
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Running Time: 155 minutes
Studio: Avid Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1976
Sales Rank: 18489

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- EXCELLENT ADAPTATION OF REAL LIFE HORRORS
I saw this when it first came out and had never before heard of the SS St Louis...and I naively supposed that while other countries, such as Cuba, would turn away these helpless people, the USA would welcome them a la Statue of Liberty...("Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!")
apparently I was wrong, and my shock was first in discovering that this was indeed a true historical event and also that WE turned these poeple AWAY! THAT horrified me more than anything else and to this day I still do not understand WHY. This is the USA! What was up with FDR?
Excellent cast, great acting, right from ... Read More

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- perfectly-pitched human drama
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED, Sir Lew Grade's star-studded dramatisation of the infamous SS St. Louis affair, is absorbing and harrowing viewing. The cast is truly amazing and most of the characters come directly from real-life people caught up in the drama. During World War II, 937 Jewish citizens were curiously allowed to leave Germany and emigrate to Cuba. While many believed the offer to be a trap, most took their chances and decided to flee from the impending Holocaust. Sure enough, once the ship docks in Havana, the passengers are refused entry and their visas' are cancelled. With country after county refusing to take them, the Captain has no other option than to return to Germany...

The escalating horror and dread onboard the ship is perfectly-pitched amongst the strong cast, ... Read More

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- Voyage of the Damned - film
I just bought a copy of this film to donate to the local Holocaust library. The movie glosses over much of the atrocity of the event that is detailed in the book of the same name, especially the "great silence" by the United States. (I urge anyone interested in that aspect to read "The Abandonment of the Jews".) But the fact remains that many people will watch a movie, while they will not read the actual book. It is an historical event which every educated person should be aware of.

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- True Horror in False Hope
Aside from the fact that these events (or perhaps events just like them but more horrible ) took place, this film could not be more compelling.

It is filled with first rate performances (some only in cameo, but all of them fully drawn and realized). This is perhaps among the best ensemble film work done by Lee Grant, Faye Dunnaway, Julie Harris, and a host of others. Tension builds with unrelenting force as the story shifts back and forth between The "damned" St. Louis, and Havana where "conscience" in the persons of a father and a leader of the Jewish agency (Ben Gazarra in a meaty role) attempt, unsuccessfully, to plead, then shame, then bully Cuban politicians into honoring the visas issued to the jewish passengers.

We watch as this tension takes its toll on so many of ... Read More

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- All Star Cast Pulls It Off
The tremendous cast drives this fact-based story of a ship of over nine-hundred Jewish refugees allowed to leave Germany not long before the start of WWII to settle in Cuba. The Germans had no intention of letting the ship dock in Cuba, but it was a propoganda ploy. As the title of the film indicates, there is a feeling of doom permeating the whole story.

Max Von Sydow does an excellent job portraying the compassionate captain trying to find some way of saving his passengers despite the personal risk to himself and his family back in Germany. An all-star cast populates the passengers with strong performances coming from Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Wendy Hiller, Maria Schell, as well as Sam Wanamaker and Lee Grant who both get a memorable scene of hysteria each.

The attempts ... Read More

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