Ship of Fools (film)
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| Directed by | Stanley Kramer |
| Produced by | Stanley Kramer |
| Written by | Abby Mann |
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Ship of Fools 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter |
| Starring |
Vivien Leigh José Ferrer Lee Marvin Simone Signoret Oskar Werner Michael Dunn |
| Music by | Ernest Gold |
| Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
| Edited by | Robert C. Jones |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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149 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English German Spanish |
| Box office | $3,500,000 (rentals)Anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America |
Ship of Fools is a 1965 drama directed by Stanley Kramer, which recounts the stories of several passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933. It stars Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, José Greco, Charles Korvin, and Heinz Rühmann. It was to be Vivien Leigh's last film and Christiane Schmidtmer's first U.S. production.
Ship of Fools was highly regarded, with reviewers praising the cast's performance but also noted the movie's overlong runtime. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1966, including for Best Picture, Best Actor for Oskar Werner and Best Actress for Simone Signoret, and won for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
The characters board a German ocean liner in Veracruz, Mexico, for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany, along with 600 displaced workers in steerage, being deported from Cuba back to Spain, and a not-so-exotic band of entertainers, for whom the voyage is just a job. Some are happy to be bound for a rising Nazi Germany, some are apprehensive, while others appear oblivious to its potential dangers.
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