Ship of Fools is a 1965 all-star ensemble drama about the passengers onboard a freighter bound for Germany before the outbreak of World War II. An assortment of characters find themselves at a crossroads in their lives. Bill Denny (Lee Marvin), an aging baseball player, tries to romance the young dancers, while a middle-aged divorcee, Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh), desperately wants to maintain her youth. An anti-Semitic publisher, Rieber (Jose Ferrer), finds himself sharing a cabin with Lowenthal (Heinz Ruehmann), a Jew who still has hope for Germany. Dr. Schumann (Oskar Werner) falls in love with the drug-addicted La Condesa (Simone Signoret). A pair of young lovers, Jenny and David (Elizabeth Ashley and George Segal), try to find a relationship beyond their sexual chemistry. As these sad and playful stories play out onboard, Glocken (Michael Dunn), a dwarf, observes their dilemmas. Stanley Kramer ("Judgment at Nuremberg") directs this classic tale of changing lives in the days before World War II, based on the novel by Katherine Anne Porter.moreless
