Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools

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1933: An ocean liner belonging to a second-rate German company is making a twenty-six day voyage from Veracruz, Mexico to Bremerhaven, Germany. Along the way it will stop in Cuba to pick up a large group of Spanish farm laborers who are being shipped home and who will be housed like cattle in steerage. There it will also pick up La Condesa, a Spanish countess. It will stop in Tenerife, where the farm workers will disembark and where La Condesa will be sent to a German-run pri... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Ship of Fools:

Vivien Leigh
Simone Signoret
José Ferrer
Lee Marvin
Oskar Werner
Elizabeth Ashley

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1933: An ocean liner belonging to a second-rate German company is making a twenty-six day voyage from Veracruz, Mexico to Bremerhaven, Germany. Along the way it will stop in Cuba to pick up a large group of Spanish farm laborers who are being shipped home and who will be housed like cattle in steerage. There it will also pick up La Condesa, a Spanish countess. It will stop in Tenerife, where the farm workers will disembark and where La Condesa will be sent to a German-run prison for her "traitorous" activities in Cuba. This voyage will be the last of three for the ship's doctor, Willi Schumann, who has a serious heart ailment and who thought he could find some meaning to his life through this job. Willi and La Condesa fall in love, with the ship's Captain Thiele, who is Willi's closest friend on board, believing the drug-addicted La Condesa is only using him to get her fixes. Willi and La Condesa have to figure out if there is a future for them after the voyage, as Willi's life also includes a wife and sons back in Bremerhaven. Among the other motley crew of passengers are: Mary Treadwell, a middle-aged American divorcée who is trying to recapture her youth; Tenny, a middle-aged American ex-baseball player who laments never having made it big in the game; David and Jenny, a young American couple who say they are in love but who have to overcome their fundamental differences in social standing and life outlooks; Rieber, a middle-aged German Nazi sympathizer who is traveling with a young woman companion and who lords his beliefs over the other German passengers, who in turn are either so self-absorbed with their own lives and/or just don't care to notice what is happening in Germany with the Nazis; and Lowenthal and Glocken, a German Jew and a German dwarf respectively, who are "paired" as the outsiders among those in first class. Their encounters, plus those with a rambunctious pair of children, two German teenagers who are coming into their sexual being but are having problems overcoming issues they face, and a troupe of gypsy entertainers whose women are pimped out by their leader, lead to an interesting voyage.

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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 8/10 by Ken HankeIt makes for OK drama all the same, but it's all on the heavy-handed side. Well, subtlety was never Kramer's strong suit.
Variety - 8/10 by Variety StaffDirector-producer Stanley Kramer and scenarist Abby Mann have distilled the essence of Katherine Anne Porter's bulky novel in a film that appeals to the intellect and the emotions.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzThe black-and-white overlong, dated and uneven film, a less than endearing talk-fest, is rescued from drowning in a sea of words by its fine cast.
Time Out - 8/10 by Tom MilneDon't look now, but as you might expect with message-mad Kramer at the helm of this adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's novel, there's a heavy allegory aboard.
Goatdog's Movies - 7/10 by Michael W. Phillips, Jr.Werner and Signoret were wonderful, and deserved their nominations.
Chicago Reader - 6/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumAs glib as Stanley Kramer often is, there is probably nothing glibber in his entire output than this Abby Mann adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's novel.
User Review - 10/10 by Olly HThis movie was a rare thing: absolutely perfect!
User Review - 10/10 by Tom KAnother true classic everyone should see: Lee Marvin shows his true acting chops and this is the last film for Vivian Leigh (Gone With The Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire).
User Review - 10/10 by Byron BAnother true classic everyone should see: Lee Marvin shows his true acting chops and this is the last film for Vivian Leigh (Gone With The Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire).
User Review - 10/10 by Dalal ALoved Simone Signoret in this and Oskar Werner... my first movie star crush!

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