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www.channel4.com - : Worthy, but flat over-cast drama about a shipload of German Jews being transported to Cuba - where they will be refused entrance, and therefore provide a propaganda victory for the Nazis. The all-star cast is a terrible distraction - Welles, Dunaway, McDowell and Mason clutter up the place with their mannerisms so that it feels rather like a period version of one of the daft all-star disaster movies then in vogue. Here, though, the disaster is the Holocaust - and not the rather more trivial issue of whether the nun is going to be able to land the plane once Charlton Heston - or whoever - has bailed out. more...
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