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Voyage of the Damned

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When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Chris... Read all When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno? When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?

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The Doctor : Right then, follow me.

Rickston Slade : Hang on a minute. Who put you in charge, and who the hell are you anyway?

The Doctor : I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the man who is gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?

Rickston Slade : No.

The Doctor : In that case, allons-y.

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Cast & crew, stuart rosenberg, frederick jaeger, luther adler, victor spinetti, julie harris, technical specs.

In 1939, the MS St. Louis ocean liner set sail from Germany to Cuba. Carrying Jewish refugees, the vessel met a tragic fate.

James Mason

Donald houston, milo sperber, sam wanamaker, michael constantine.

Wendy Hiller

Oskar werner.

Janet Suzman

Faye Dunaway

Della mcdermott, gunter meisner, brian gilbert.

Katharine Ross

Malcolm mcdowell, ina skriver.

Orson Welles

Carl duering, leonard rossiter.

Max Von Sydow

Adele strong, georgina hale, constantin de goguel, laura gemser.

Jose Ferrer

Maria Schell

Lynne frederick.

Denholm Elliott

Nehemiah Persoff

David De Keyser

Marika rivera, robin halstead.

Helmut Griem

Ben Gazzara

Fernando Rey

Genevieve west, bernard hepton, anthony higgins, bernard kaye.

Jonathan Pryce

Don henderson, philip stone, keith barron, garry mcdermott, betty adamson, eric allwright, john billing, david butler, gerry crampton, phyllis dalton, robert fryer, joseph haydn, auguste heinrich hoffmann, edward lockton, glenn miller, max morgan-witts, tom priestley, cliff robinson, lalo schifrin, steve shagan, wilfred shingleton, rudolph siecynski, jack stephens, gordon thomas, david tringham, billy williams, award nominations, best supporting actress, best writing, screenplay, voyage of the damned.

Wendy Hiller, 1912-2003

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Released in United States Winter January 1, 1976

Re-released in United States on Video January 5, 1994

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Voyage of the Damned (1976)

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Voyage of the Damned

Written by russell t davies.

"I'm nine hundred and three years old and I'm the man who's going to save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"

The RMS Titanic crashes into the TARDIS on Christmas Eve 2007. When disaster strikes, plucky waitress Astrid joins forces with the Doctor to do battle with a host of homicidal angels. But who will survive the voyage?

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The Doctor: David Tennant

Astrid Peth: Kylie Minogue

Captain Hardaker: Geoffrey Palmer

Midshipman Frame: Russell Tovey

Max Capricorn: George Costigan

Rickston Slade: Gray O'Brien

Chief Steward: Andrew Havill

Engineer: Bruce Lawrence

Foon Van Hoff: Debbie Chazen

Morvin Van Hoff: Clive Rowe

Mr Copper: Clive Swift

Bannakaffalatta: Jimmy Vee

Wilfred Mott: Bernard Cribbins

Himself: Nicholas Witchell

The Host: Paul Kasey

Kitchen Hand: Stefan Davis

Newsreader: Jason Mohammad

Writer: Russell T Davies

Producer: Phil Collinson

Director: James Strong

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Voyage of the damned.

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg

It lasted 30 days... You will remember it as long as you live.

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Faye Dunaway Oskar Werner Lee Grant Sam Wanamaker Lynne Frederick David de Keyser Luther Adler Wendy Hiller Julie Harris Nehemiah Persoff Maria Schell Paul Koslo Jonathan Pryce Brian Gilbert Georgina Hale Milo Sperber Max von Sydow Malcolm McDowell Helmut Griem Keith Barron Anthony Higgins Ian Cullen Donald Houston David Daker Constantine Gregory Don Henderson Ina Skriver Orson Welles James Mason Show All… Katharine Ross Victor Spinetti Michael Constantine José Ferrer Ben Gazzara Fernando Rey Bernard Hepton Günter Meisner Marika Rivera Janet Suzman Frederick Jaeger Denholm Elliott Leonard Rossiter Philip Stone Luis Ciges Laura Gemser Bernard Kay

Director Director

Stuart Rosenberg

Producers Producers

William Hill Robert Fryer Malcolm J. Christopher

Writers Writers

Steve Shagan David Butler

Original Writers Original Writers

Max Morgan Witts Gordon Thomas

Casting Casting

Miriam Brickman

Editors Editors

Desmond Saunders Tom Priestley

Cinematography Cinematography

Billy Williams

Assistant Directors Asst. Directors

David Tringham Michael Stevenson

Camera Operator Camera Operator

David Harcourt

Additional Photography Add. Photography

David Wynn-Jones

Production Design Production Design

Wilfred Shingleton

Art Direction Art Direction

Jack Stephens

Composer Composer

Lalo Schifrin

Sound Sound

Dino Di Campo Derek Ball William Trent

Costume Design Costume Design

Phyllis Dalton

Makeup Makeup

Linda DeVetta Eric Allwright Lee Harman

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Betty Glasow Susan Germaine Ramon Gow

Robert Fryer Production Associated General Films ITC Entertainment

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22 dec 1976, 11 mar 1979, releases by country.

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Review by kmeaston ★★½

I think this photo says it all. You can't both be a serious drama about an actual humanitarian crisis and an overblown '70s disaster camp epic at the same time. You will fail at both.

Review by chavel ★★½ 4

In May 1939, a seemingly lucky 937 German Jews are on a luxury liner out of Hamburg en voyage to Havana, Cuba. While out to sea, there are lots of little negligible dramas amongst the passengers. For awhile, it’s interesting how they take their exodus for granted and wish to be back home; they are unaware their chances for survival are better somewhere on the other side of the world. Still, there are way too many actors, A-list and B-list, duking it out for screen time, searching for validity. Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Wendy Hiller, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Julie Harris, Jonathan Pryce, Lynne Frederick, Malcolm McDowell are amongst the cast on-board. Fully invested is Max von Sydow as the…

Review by Fint ★★★

A ship so overloaded by name actors that it threatens to capsize with talent, yet still manages to utterly waste the wonderful Wendy Hiller. (There was apparently a near 3-hour version so perhaps Wendy suffered in the second edit.) There is some propitious casting (Maria Schell - luminous; Max von Sydow - authoritative; Lee Grant - committed; James Mason - robust) but some head-scratchers too, mostly with the glamorous younger women: Katharine Ross doesn't convince as Maria Schell's prostitute daughter, Lynne Frederick has a cringingly gauche final scene with Malcolm McDowell, and Faye Dunaway, though she is not bad, just appears to be in the wrong film.

It's based on an awful true story which imparts a watchable dread to…

Review by theironcupcake ★★★½ 3

Boasting an all-star cast the likes of which were par for the course in 70s disaster flicks, Stuart Rosenberg's Voyage of the Damned is an account of a different type of catastrophe: the true story of the St. Louis, an ocean liner tasked with transporting 937 German-Jewish passengers from Hamburg to Havana in May 1939. Unsurprisingly, given the film's title, the trip does not go as planned for the refugees.

Rosenberg's film actually has too many actors, stuffing so many A-listers into its 155-minute running time that many of the characters do not get proper opportunities to develop. Just look at this stellar roster: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Max von Sydow, Malcolm McDowell (maybe my favorite performance in the film),…

Review by Erin 🍺 ★★★

This was hard to stomach to be honest. WWII stuff always is for me. (Guess why) 

Absolutely filled to the brim with familiar faces. Nasty teeth Nazi guy needed to get his ass whooped though for pretty obvious reasons.  Also that obnoxious music playing during ~that~ pretty important dramatic scene was so off putting. I would’ve rather had Lee Grant screaming in my face

Review by Nuno Costa ★★½

Viewed on Hollywood Suite

This tragic story about the S.S. St. Louis carrying nearly 1000 German Jews, Voyage Of The Damned (1976) is not a total loss but it certainly deserved a better film to tell its very interesting story.

Voyage Of The Damned (1976) features a star studded cast but only a few standouts. Lee Grant received an Oscar nomination for her role, and if you see the film, it was surly full commitment to the role. Grant's nomination was one of 3 Oscar nominations the film received.

The Golden Globes were more generous with a total of 6 nominations. While Lee Grant for Best Supporting Actress was among them, the only winner was Katherine Ross for Best Supporting…

Review by Christof ★★ 1

Why would anyone assemble such a killer cast (Faye Dunaway! Max von Sydow! James Mason! Orson Welles! Oskar Werner! Wendy Hiller! Ben Gazzara! Malcolm McDowell! Fernando Rey! Jonathan Pryce! Maria Schell! Denholm Elliott! Lee Grant! José Ferrer! Helmut Grier! Julie Harris! Janet Suzman!), and then give them almost nothing interesting to do or to say?

Review by Christian Dimartino ★★★½

Good movie. It just feels like it’s seven hours long.

Review by Patrick Delmore ★★★★½

1976 continues...  Stumbled upon ‘Voyage of the Damned’ while trying to find a 1976 that pulled me in right away. ‘Voyage of the Damned’ is packed to the gills with stars, and its Social relevance is pretty high in 2020. A ship of Jewish refugees, the St Louis, leaves Germany in 1939, as a propaganda experiment, bound for Cuba. We see scenes from the lives of the crew and passengers, and the people on land trying to manipulate their fate. The best cameo in the film is Philip Stones two scenes. I love the idea that ‘The Shining’s Delbert Grady is the gatekeeper to returning jews to Europe days before World War Two breaks out.

Review by MarkAlanMiller 1

The tagline says it lasted 30 days and you will remember it the rest of your life. I submit that it feels longer than that, but you'll forget it as soon as it's over.

Review by Adriana Scarpin ★★½

Veja que coisa peculiar, Mr Mason presente num filme sobre judeus e nazistas sem interpretar um alemão! Mais peculiar ainda é ser um cubano tanto quanto Orson Welles! Curiosamente este filme é mais interessante do que eu esparava, pois o cinema já está pra lá de saturado com dramas a respeito do sofrimento judaico durante a Segunda Guerra e por mais que existam alguns excelentes filmes sobre o tema, o holocausto foi por demais comercializado e esse excesso de manipulação e oportunismo para com as emoções do público dá no meu saquinho. De novo o elenco mostra a respeitabilidade necessária, além das duas maiores vozes “cubanas” do cinema, ainda há presença de José Ferrer, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Lee Grant, Malcolm McDowell, Julie Harris, Helmut Griem, Maria Schell, Ben Gazzara, Katharine Ross, Fernando Rey, Jonathan Pryce (em sua estréia nas telonas), entre tantos outros.

Review by Dan O'Neill ★★★

Super long. Super slow. Super depressing. Ensemble makes it worth watching, especially Malcolm McDowell who feels like he stumbled right off the set of Oh Lucky Man onto here.

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In 1939, hundreds of Jewish refugees, many fresh from concentration camps, boarded the SS St Louis  – flagship of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. The passengers were being permitted to leave Nazi Germany for Cuba.

Only a select few aboard knew that the trip was a hoax and a Nazi propaganda exercise: that Germany had arranged for the 937 refugees to be refused entry in Cuba and that they would be returned to Germany and certain death.

And only one man on board knew that the ship’s return journey would also be used to smuggle American military secrets from Havana back to Germany.

Voyage of the Damned  was produced by Sir Lew Grade with the largest international cast ever assembled for a British film and a $6 million budget to match, to reconstruct the extraordinary true story of the voyage of the SS St Louis .

Faye Dunaway plays Denise Kreisler, the elegant wife of a doctor (Oskar Werner). They insist on leaving their homeland in style – she in an evening dress and he in his dinner jacket. Max Von Sydow has the key role of the captain of the St Louis , a non-Nazi sailor in the old naval tradition to whom, in the long run, the refugees owe their lives.

Malcolm McDowell (pictured at left) has the role of the part-Jewish steward on board; Orson Welles is a rich and influential Cuban industrialist, and James Mason plays the sympathetic Cuban Foreign Minister.

Others in the cast include Lee Grant, Luther Adler, Wendy Hiller, Julie Harris, José Ferrer, Maria Schell, Sam Wanamaker, Janet Suzman, Victor Spinetti, Ben Gazzara and old Rigsby himself, Leonard Rossiter.

German actor Helmut Griem portrays Otto Schiendick, the fanatical Nazi to whom German Counter-Intelligence chief Admiral Canaris (Denholm Elliott) entrusted the delivery of the American secrets from Havana.

Although the  St Louis  incident ended well for the passengers who were dispersed to various European countries just before the ship returned to Hamburg, the story still has a sad ending.

As the Nazis flooded over Europe, many of the St Louis passengers fell into German hands again and perished. At the end of the war, only 240 of the original 937 men, women and children who sailed on the ship remained alive. The German captain, Gustav Schroeder, survived the war and lived on in the memories of those he helped save.

Denise Kreisler Faye Dunaway Professor Egon Kreisler Oskar Werner Lili Rosen Lee Grant Carl Rosen Sam Wanamaker Anna Rosen Lynne Frederick Joseph Joseph David de Keyser Julia Strauss Della McDermott Sarah Strauss Genevieve West Professor Weiler Luther Adler Rebecca Weiler Wendy Hiller Alice Fienchild Julie Harris Mr Hauser Nehemiah Persoff Mrs Hauser Maria Schell Aaron Pozner Paul Koslo Joseph Manasse Jonathan Pryce Laurenz Schulman Brian Gilbert Lotte Schulman Georgina Hale Mrs Schulman Adele Strong Captain Schroeder Max von Sydow Max Gunter Malcolm McDowell Otto Schiendick Helmut Griem Purser Mueller Keith Barron Seaman Berg Anthony Higgins Dr Glauner Donald Houston Jose Estedes Orson Welles Dr Juan Remos James Mason Mira Hauser Katharine Ross Dr Erich Strauss Victor Spinetti Luis Clasing Michael Constantine Manuel Benitez José Ferrer Morris Troper Ben Gazzara President Bru Fernando Rey Milton Goldsmith Bernard Hepton Robert Hoffman Günter Meisner Leni Strauss Janet Suzman Werner Mannheim Frederick Jaeger Admiral Canaris Denholm Elliott Commander Von Bonin Leonard Rossiter

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An international cast headlines this fact-based story about German Jews seeking refuge in 1939 Cuba. Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles, James Mason, Lee Grant, Ben Gazzara, Katharine Ross. Weiler: Luther Adler. Clasing: Michael Constantine. Canaris: Denholm Elliott. Miguel: Jose Ferrer. Alice: Julie Harris. Anna: Lynne Frederick. Stuart Rosenberg directed.

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“Voyage of the Damned” is a 1976 drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, based on the true story of the ill-fated 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis. Carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba, the ship’s passengers were hopeful for a safe haven from the Nazi regime. However, their journey becomes a harrowing tale of survival and despair when their visas are invalidated, leaving them in limbo. The film boasts an ensemble cast of distinguished actors who bring to life the poignant narrative of this historical event. Below are the top ten cast members of “Voyage of the Damned,” along with their IMDb URLs:

1. Faye Dunaway as Denise Kreisler – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001159/ 2. Max von Sydow as Captain Schroeder – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001884/ 3. Oskar Werner as Dr. Egon Kreisler – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921131/ 4. Malcolm McDowell as Max Gunter – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000532/ 5. Orson Welles as José Estedes – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/ 6. James Mason as Remos – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000051/ 7. Lee Grant as Lillian Rosen – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0335519/ 8. Katharine Ross as Mira Hauser – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001684/ 9. Ben Gazzara as Morris Troper – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001262/ 10. Helmut Griem as Otto Schiendick – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340488/

Please note that the list above is not exhaustive and there are many other talented actors who contributed to the film.

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• Director : Stuart Rosenberg ,
• Producer : Robert Fryer ,
• Production Design : Wilfred Shingleton ,
• Writer : David Butler , Steve Shagan ,
• Editor : Desmond Saunders , Tom Priestley ,
• Cinematographer : Billy Williams ,
• Cast : Faye Dunaway , Lynne Frederick , Lee Grant , Oskar Werner , Sam Wanamaker ,
• Assistant Camera : David Wynn-Jones ,
• Music Editor : Milton Lustig ,
• Casting : Miriam Brickman ,
• Assistant Director : David Tringham ,
• Sound Recordist : Derek Ball ,
• Continuity : Pamela Carlton ,
• Hairdresser : Betty Glasow , Susan Germaine , Ramon Gow ,
• Construction Manager : Terry Apsey ,
• Associate Producer : William Hill ,
• Makeup Artist : Eric Allwright , Lee Harman , Linda DeVetta ,
• Assistant Editor : Bob Mullen ,
• Screenplay : David Butler , Steve Shagan ,
• Wardrobe Supervisor : Betty Adamson , John Hilling ,
• Original Music Composer : Lalo Schifrin ,
• Production Manager : Malcolm J. Christopher ,
• Electrician : Jack Conroy ,
• Sound Editor : Dino Di Campo , William Trent ,
• Art Direction : Jack Stephens ,
• Novel : Max Morgan Witts , Gordon Thomas ,
• Camera Operator : David Harcourt ,
• Costume Design : Phyllis Dalton ,

Technical specifications

• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English
• Release: December 22, 1976
• Duration: 155 min
• Genres: Drama, War

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