Voyage of the Damned

The original St.

Louis had a dark hull.

The hull used on the ship in this film is white.

Outside the German Army HQ in late 1930s Hamburg, a 1970s red London bus drives past.

Several of the hairstyles worn by many of the actresses in the film are from the 70's, despite the fact that the events took place in 1939.

Well told story of a tragic World War Two event portraying the pervasive antisemitism in Canada and the United States. Oscar Werner,Faye Dunaway, and Lee Grant were outstanding.

May, 1939. 937 German Jews are put on board an ocean liner.

Goodish, and well-intentioned, but not great. Based on a true story, this should be a gut-wrenching emotional roller-coaster ride.

Voyage of the Damned tells the true story of the ill fated ship the S.S St.

This is a really remarkable film of great importance. It concerns the voyage of an ocean liner from Hamburg in Germany to Cuba, loaded with Jews who have bought their way out of the Nazi nightmare by paying money to Heinrich Himmler.

An ambitious effort to tell the true story of SS St.Louis in May-June 1939 on a cruise to Cuba with only Jewish German passengers as a Nazi propaganda display in all its polyphonic complexity, has above all succeeded in rendering and making the horrible sadness about it real.

A true gem particularly when one considers the potentially campy casting of Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow, Malcolm McDowell, Jose Ferrer and the late model Orson Welles. Nevertheless, VOTD is surprisingly heartfelt as it tells the hopeless story of German Jews set a drift on a luxury liner during WWII.

This has all the feeling of a 1980s disaster movie with its big name all star cast . Alas British audiences will be distracted by the opening sequence where a cruel Nazi is played by the legendary Leonard Rossiter .

A tragic story from WWII where a group German Jews were allowed to sail to Cuba away from all the worries of the Nazi regime in Germany.