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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404911024
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404911022
Label: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Region Code: 99
Release Date: December 02, 2003
Running Time: 149 minutes
Sales Rank: 34789
Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Theatrical Release Date: 1965
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
SHIP OF FOOLS is set on a German ocean liner during the Nazi regime of the 1930's. In the high class section are several well-to-do people while below deck are a horde of sugar field workers returning to Spain after a season of work in Cuba. The ship is a hot bed of disillusionment prejudice anddelusions of grandeur.System Requirements:Running Time: 149 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 043396106321 Manufacturer No: 10632
Amazon.com:
An all-star drama in the grandest of Hollywood traditions, Ship of Fools is now a glossy, Oscar®-nominated relic from a bygone era, when actors were valued more than special effects. 'Prestige' is the keyword in describing this high-toned Stanley Kramer production, and the passage of time brings the pros and cons of Kramer's filmmaking into stark relief. In adapting Katherine Anne Porter's acclaimed novel set aboard a German liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, Kramer and screenwriter Abby Mann (who shifted the story from 1931 to 1933) attempted to display the oncoming horror of Nazi Germany in microcosm, as represented by the ship's colorful variety of passengers, including maritally combative artists (George Segal, Elizabeth Ashley); a has-been baseball star (Lee Marvin); a pair of illicit lovers (Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret); a despondent divorcée (Vivien Leigh, shockingly garish in her final film); and several others who play symbolic roles with varying degrees of obviousness. Porter's potent themes are somewhat deflated by Kramer's pompous, heavy-handed approach, but powerful acting remains. Having lost what relevance it had in 1965, Ship of Fools is still fascinating as a showcase for well-drawn characters (including an observant dwarf, played by the late, great Michael Dunn) whose inner lives and outward interactions reflect a turbulent world irrevocably headed for war. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Lengthy soap opera overshadows social commentary
This movie starts out as an ensemble drama examining the racial, religous and class prejudices onboard a cruise ship bound for a newly-Nazified Germany in 1933. Unfortunately, it turns into a wordy mess of a soap opera, that focuses far too much attention on the unsympathetic, frankly pathetic characters played by George Segal and Elizabeth Ashley. By the end of the two and a half hours, I was hoping one would throw the other overboard!
In the documentary included with the version in the Stanley ... Read More
Rating:  - haunting character study of pre-war Germany
Based on the book by Katherine Anne Porter, SHIP OF FOOLS features Vivien Leigh in her final movie role, plus a star-studded international cast. This fascinating drama, set in 1933 on a cruiseliner from Mexico to Germany, presents a haunting allegory of the impending Holocaust.
On a ship bound for the port of Bremerhaven in Germany, we meet a colourful selection of passengers. Among them, disenchanted divorcee Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh); "La Contessa" (Simone Signoret), a drug-addicted ... Read More
Rating:  - Sailing in a Time Capsule
I've never read the original novel but I'm absolutely sure that this film adaption would never be made today: the forces of Hollywood's dogmatic political correctness would totally destroy it!
The Germans aren't evil enough for Hollywood. The Spanish family that forces its daughters into prostitution aboard the ship is too unflattering to remain, so that would be completely changed. The Mexican workers below deck are too surly and bitter to be in a movie so they would have to be changed into, ... Read More
Rating:  - "The World's Our Ship"
"Ship of Fools" 1965, A dramatic view of who we are and what we hope not to become. With a cast of talented actors; Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind), Michael Dunn (Dr. Loveless, Wild Wild West), Lee Marvin (The Wild Ones), Oskar Werner (Fahrenheit 451), Simone Signoret, George Segal (Bloom in Love) and Princeton graduate, José Ferre. A story of an old allegory that has long been used in Western civilization. With a sense of self-criticism, it describes the world and its human inhabitants as a vessel whose ... Read More
Rating: - Good Social Satire
Stanley Kramer's production and adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's social satire with a screenplay by Abby Mann depicting the beauty and horrors of the human being on the set of a cruise liner leaving Mexico to Germany in 1933. Although the screenplay and script are somewhat bare compared to the novel, the acting of its brilliant cast alone makes this a memorable film.
The film is an existantialist satire of human existance depicted as a cruiseliner, its crew, and its passengers luxuriously ... Read More
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