This is probably the weakest of all the excellent films that have been made dealing with the holocaust.
While we realize that Dolores Hart's part is one of terror having survived Auschwitz, there is a certain emptiness that she displays here that is hard to comprehend.
I wonder how Boyd felt doing another film with Hugh Griffith. Remember, three years before, Griffith won the best supporting actor Oscar for Ben-Hur. Unbelievable that Boyd wasn't even nominated as Massala in that category. Griffith essentially had a similar role in Exodus, two years before this film, as a smuggler of human cargo.
The film becomes somewhat muddled at the end as you don't realize who the good or bad guys are. Of course, the British come off here as the bad-guys which they deserved.
While we realize that Dolores Hart's part is one of terror having survived Auschwitz, there is a certain emptiness that she displays here that is hard to comprehend.
I wonder how Boyd felt doing another film with Hugh Griffith. Remember, three years before, Griffith won the best supporting actor Oscar for Ben-Hur. Unbelievable that Boyd wasn't even nominated as Massala in that category. Griffith essentially had a similar role in Exodus, two years before this film, as a smuggler of human cargo.
The film becomes somewhat muddled at the end as you don't realize who the good or bad guys are. Of course, the British come off here as the bad-guys which they deserved.