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Malcolm McDowell, Voyage of the Damned, 1975. In a Nazi propaganda exercise – “Nobody loves Jews – so leave them to us”- Germany ships Jews to Havana, in the full knowledge that Cuba won’t accept them. Nor will any other nation. They return home, by which time WWII has begun, and of the 937 passengers, more than 600 die in concentration camps! ThIs is no retread of Katharine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools, although similar and both featuring José Ferrer and Oskar Werner (in his final film here). No, this is a terrible true story, stuffed with stars, too many to deal with. Denholm Elliott has one scene, Orson Welles, four; luckier than the jettisoned Janet Suzman and Jack Warden. A good guy this once, Malcolm McDowell was among the crew instead of (take a breath)… fellow Brits Jon Finch, Anthony Hopkins, Simon MacCorkindale, Ian McShane, John Moulder-Brown, Martin Potter and Hollywood’s Keith Carradine, Jeff Conaway, Raul Julia, Martin Kove, Joe Mantegna, . Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, John Ritter, John Travolta, Jon Voight.
- Tom Willett, Grease 2, 1981. As if he’d never starred on Broadway… and as if he hadn’t been mistreated enough in the first film (John Travolta pinched the Conaway character’s Greased Lightning song), Jeff was invited to come back as… the Bowling Alley Manager! Such a pivotal rôle that Willet was not even credited. During 1980-1990, Conaway’s second wife (of three) was Rona, the sister of his his Grease co-star Olivia Newton-John.
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