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Ship of Fools (1965)

Not Rated | | Drama, Romance, War | October 1965 (Austria)
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A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.

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... Mary Treadwell
... La Condesa
... Siegfried Rieber (as Jose Ferrer)
... Bill Tenny
... Dr. Wilhelm Schumann
... Jenny
... David
... Pepe (as Jose Greco)
... Karl Glocken
... Capt. Thiele
... Julius Lowenthal (as Heinz Ruehmann)
... Frau Hutten
... Amparo (as Barbara Luna)
... Lizzi Spoekenkieker
... Freytag
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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 ... Written by Huggo

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Unusually, Oskar Werner's Oscar nod was the only performance that year to be nominated in the Best Actor category for a film also nominated for Best Picture. All of the other Best Picture nominees - Darling (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Sound of Music (1965) and A Thousand Clowns (1965) - failed to produced a Best Actor nominee. A controversial omission in this category was Jason Robards, whose tour de force performance was unquestionably the anchor of A Thousand Clowns (1965). See more »

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Although set in 1933, the hairstyles and costumes are decidedly mid-sixties. See more »

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Mary Treadwell: Tell me. Wouldn't it unnverve you to have an affair with me?
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Heute abend geh'n wir bummeln auf der Reeperbahn
Music by Ernest Gold
Lyrics by Jack Lloyd
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An Imperfect Gem
2 December 2007 | by – See all my reviews

A grim long voyage with an earnest script by the remarkable Abby Mann and a respectful Stanley Kramer at the helm. Assorted desperate characters makes the sailing a gripping one. When the extraordinary Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner and Vivien Leigh are on, we're there with them one hundred per cent. Simone Signoret's addicted Countess and Vivien Leigh's bitter and disillusioned middle age Southern woman touch and dominate the highest, most powerful moments. Their stories have an immediate resonance and their faces, wonderful, beautiful faces, carry a truth that is as pungent as it is undeniable. Painful yes, very painful but, as it happens with the best kind of drama, entertaining, compelling, cinematic. Jose Ferrer's German bore, George Segal and Elizabeth Ashley and even the wonderful Michael Dunn will make you sea sick at times but I will recommend it nonetheless just to admire and enjoy Vivien Leigh's Charleston or Simone Signoret looking at Oskar Werner with a mixture of love, lust, compassion and need. For collectors of imperfect gems.
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