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From the Titanic through the Ship of Fools, the movies have seldom undertaken a more top-heavy displeasure cruise than this one. The passenger list for Voyage of the Damned is heavily booked with star types-Max Von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Orson Welles, Ben Gazzara and Katharine Ross-along with an affecting newcomer, Lynne Frederick. All have been brought aboard to add glamour to the journey, but the effort is futile. The actors struggle, usually valiantly (Werner, Von Sydow, Mason), sometimes campily (Dunaway, Welles), but are ultimately undone...
...Werner-Dunaway marriage unthaw on the bounding main? Will Lee Grant be able to control her melancholiac husband, who is, she announces, "retreating into himself? "Your orders come straight from Berlin. If you refuse to accept them, be prepared to accept the consequences for yourself-and your family." Will Malcolm McDowell have a chance to initiate Lynne Frederick into the mysteries of "what it is to be a woman"? Some vulgarity can be amusing, but Voyage of the Damned is not only amusing but is also debasing...
...million, exactly double the original budget, to film the life of one of history's most colorful monsters. The movie is the grandest spectacle to be shot in Italy since Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra (1963). Guccione hired some of England's best actors-Malcolm McDowell to play Caligula, Peter O'Toole for the diseased Emperor Tiberius and John Gielgud for the aristocratic Nerva. He then set about constructing half of ancient Rome: a mile-long facsimile of a 1st century street, a 100-yd.-long stadium, and a 175-ft.-long floating bordello, encrusted with gold...
...redeployed closer to Israel. The Israelis were also concerned about reports that Syria was moving antiaircraft missiles into Lebanon. Israel considered that a threat, since no planes have been involved in a major way in the Lebanese fighting. Both Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon cautioned Israeli officials not to push Damascus too hard, lest Syria feel it had to respond to the challenge or lose face. Privately, American officials said they did not believe that either Israel or Syria would make a move along the border that would risk an outbreak...
...ranking U.S. embassy official, Marshall Brement, a career diplomat, fluent in Russian and Chinese. His Soviet visa was canceled a few days after he arrived in the U.S. on a home leave. Even more significantly, the Kremlin has failed to respond to the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon as the next American envoy to the Soviet Union. The Soviets may be displeased with Toon, a blunt career diplomat, who is an expert on East European affairs and who served two prior tours in Moscow. But they have not offered a single word of explanation...