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Voyage of the Damned is a 1976 film about the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba. The 2005 opening paragraph explained that the Jews aboard had suffered the rise of antisemitism and saw the voyage as their last chance to escape. Today the opening covers only the film’s cast and production, and antisemitism appears nowhere in it, though the word survives once in the body. A reader today learns who directed and starred in the film, not why its Jewish passengers were fleeing Germany.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • A basic definitional sentence naming the film, superseded by a longer rewritten opening.
  • The passage explaining that the film’s Jewish refugees were fleeing the rise of antisemitism is gone from the opening; a reader no longer learns why they sought passage on the ship.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17017153):

Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 film drama inspired by true events concerning the fate of an ocean liner carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939 . It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg , and with a screenplay by David Butler and Steve Shagan . Its “all-star” cast includes Faye Dunaway , Lee Grant , Oskar Werner , Sam Wanamaker , Lynne Frederick , Luther Adler , Wendy Hiller , Julie Harris , Nehemiah Persoff , Paul Koslo , Jonathan Pryce , Max von Sydow , Malcolm McDowell , Orson Welles , James Mason , Katharine Ross , José Ferrer , Ben Gazzara , Fernando Rey , Janet Suzman and Denholm Elliott . The film was nominated for three Academy Awards : Best Supporting Actress …

2025 (revision 1296757501):

1976 film For other uses, see Voyage of the Damned (disambiguation) . Voyage of the Damned is a 1976 drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg , with an all-star cast featuring Faye Dunaway , Oskar Werner , Lee Grant , Max von Sydow , James Mason , Lynne Frederick and Malcolm McDowell . The story was inspired by actual events concerning the fate of the ocean liner MS St. Louis carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939. It was based on a 1974 nonfiction book of the same title written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts . The screenplay was written by Steve Shagan and David Butler . The film was produced by ITC Entertainment and released by Rank Film Distributors in the UK and Avco…

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