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- 1976
- PG
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 2 h 35 m
- 1976
- PG
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 2 h 35 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Stuart Rosenberg
Written By: Steve Shagan, David Butler, Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan Witts
- 1976
- PG
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 2 h 35 m
- 1976
- PG
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 2 h 35 m
Voyage of the Damned
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Stuart Rosenberg
Written By: Steve Shagan, David Butler, Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan Witts
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
31
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
At times a bit plodding, Voyage of the Damned certainly succeeds in making its point, as did the conniving Hitler: It's harder to condemn the perpetrators of racism when you turn away their victims at your door. [17 Sep 2005, p.12]
There is obviously a good deal of built in human interest in this material. But this movie squanders its most important resource - its people - by employing an all-star cast so huge and unwieldy that nobody is on hand long enough to exert much of an emotional tug. [27 Dec 1976, p.57]
The huge cast seems to share in the sense of confusion, and what might have been an excellent treatment of an important story merely falls flat.
Fact that the story is based on an actual, and shocking, incident makes all the more disappointing its transfer to the screen. The action zigs and zags between the cluttered set of characters.
Rosenberg here confuses seriousness with tedious solemnity, and with the star glut has produced a compacted TV series.
As the lines drone on -- paced with a sledgehammer -- you may feel you could die for a little overlapping dialogue. But with this material you can't even have the frivolous pleasure of derision.
Movies as clumsy, tasteless and self-righteous as this are worse than merely boring. By exploiting the tragedies of real people, some wildly fictionalized, The Voyage of the Damned attempts to turn them to profit without giving them any measure of the respect that is due.
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Production Company
Associated General Films,
Robert Fryer Production,
ITC Entertainment
Release Date Dec 22, 1976
Duration 2 h 35 m
Rating PG
Tagline In The Shadow of Death... [UK]
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Nominations
Awards of the Japanese Academy
• 1 Nomination
