Voyage of the Damned
Date: 1976
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Production Company: Sir Lew Grade, Associated General Films, ITC Entertainment
Stars: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick
Location(s): Catalonia (Spain), London
Region(s): London T-Z, Spain
Storyline:
The SS St. Louis carries German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Cuba.
Additional Information:
Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson from source material provided by John Tunstill.
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- Capture 1
- 19 Jan 2015
The year is 1939 and this is Nazi Headquarters in Hamburg. Actually it's St Pancras Station on Euston Road, London NW1.
A different view now, this is where Peter declined to purchase a drink at the advertised price!
- Capture 2
- 19 Jan 2015
Otto Schiendick (Helmut Griem), a 2nd Class Steward on board the MS St. Louis, arrives to be given his next assignment from Commander Von Bonin. St Pancras Station with Euston Road visible through the archway. Other parts of the station can be seen 'Shirley Valentine' ‘Smashing Time’, ‘The Servant’, ‘The Ladykillers’, ‘Wings of Mystery’, ‘The Fourth Protocol’, ‘McVicar’, ‘The Comedy Man’, ‘Mona Lisa’, ‘A Cry from the Streets’, ‘The Painted Smile’, ‘Nuns on the Run’ and ‘Simon and Laura’.
Same building, different function. Picture by Peter.
- Capture 3
- 17 Sep 2018
Aaron Pozner (Paul Koslo) and Joseph Manasse (Jonathan Pryce) descend steps to a tunnel.
As may be appreciated, with all of the alteration at London Bridge station over the years it's fairly difficult to place the location. (PW)
- Capture 4
- 17 Sep 2018
The pair turn into the tunnel and head for the harbour.
Likely to be somewhere here. (PW)
- Capture 5
- 17 Sep 2018
A group of soldiers sing as they walk towards the two teachers. Weston Street in SE1 as it passes through tunnel between St. Thomas Street and Tooley Street.
This one is more accurate as we know the line that Weston Street took under the station. (PW)
- Capture 6
- 17 Sep 2018
Manasse escapes but Pozner is beaten by the soldiers before they continue on their way. Facing Tooley Street on Weston Street as it runs beneath London Bridge station.
And facing the other way on the former Weston Street. (PW)
- Capture 7
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MS St. Louis waits for it's passengers in Hamburg Harbour. MS St. Louis was played by MV Irpinia which was built in 1929 as the liner Campana by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne in northern England.
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Ships Purser Mueller (Keith Barron) stands by as Werner Mannheim (Frederick Jaeger) watches as Leni Strauss (Janet Suzman) says goodbye to Julia Strauss (Della McDermott).
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A car carrying a crest on the doors approaches the harbour gates.
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Professor Egon Kreisler (Oskar Werner) and his wife Denise (Faye Dunaway) make their way through the checkpoint and onto the ship.
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MS St. Louis leaves port, heading for Cuba. Wikipedia and IMDB list Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain as a location.
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Robert Hoffman, a military intelligence agent in Cuba, and Luis Clasing are driven through Havana.
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A woman stoops to look into the car as it passes.
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The agent has been stirring up antisemitism in the press and Clasing foresees a problem with visas.
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The camera moves with the car.
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Robert Hoffman (Günter Meisner) and Luis Clasing (Michael Constantine) of the Hamburg-Amerika Line head to see the Director of Immigration.
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As MS St. Louis draws closer to it's destination, we see another establishing street shot.
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The camera tilts down.
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Morris Troper (Ben Gazzara) and Milton Goldsmith (Bernard Hepton) make their way to meet Luis Clasing.
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Troper is introduced to Clasing as the head of the Jewish Agency in Europe and attempts to negotiate on behalf of the ship's passengers. Plaça Reial in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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A waiter is called to bring beers over as the three discuss the worthless landing permits issued by the shipping line.
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The political machinations continue and MS St. Louis arrives in Havana but the passengers are not allowed to land.
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Doctor Erich Strauss (Victor Spinetti) catches up with José Estedes (Orson Welles) as he prepares to leave the stock exchange with his Girlfriend (Laura Gemser).
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The Doctor pleads with the Industrialist to help to allow his daughters ashore from the MS St. Louis.
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Estedes departs leaving Doctor Strauss with the name of a contact.
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MS St. Louis lies anchored in the harbour. MV Irpinia was withdrawn in 1981 and laid up for two years in La Spezia before being scrapped.
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Pozner and Manasse talk about the patrols on the ship after one of the passengers commits suicide.
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Dr. Juan Remos looks from his window as Dr. Strauss persuades him to permit visas to be issued for his daughters.
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After the Strauss children are allowed ashore, Troper heads for the ship to give grave news to the passengers.