Ship of Fools (film)

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, Jos Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, Jos Greco, Charles Korvin, and Heinz Rhmann. It was to be Vivien Leighs last film and Christiane Schmidtmers first U.S. production.

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 notsoexotic 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.The ships doctor, Schumann Oskar Werner with dueling scar, takes a special interest in La Condesa Simone Signoret, a countess from Cuba who has an addiction to drugs and is being shipped to a Spanishrun prison on Tenerife. Her sense of certain doom is contrasted by the doctors determination to fight the forces of oppression, embodied by his insistence that the people in steerage be treated like human beings rather than animals. The doctor himself has a secret, a terminal heart condition, and his sympathy for the countess soon evolves into love. ........

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