- Summary
- In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the Holocaust to come.
- Other Title
- Ship of fools.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, [2003]
©2003
- Edition
- Full screen version
- Other Authors/Editors
- Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967.
Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985.
Ferrer, José, 1912-1992.
Marvin, Lee.
Werner, Oskar, 1922-1984.
Ashley, Elizabeth, 1939-
Segal, George.
Greco, José.
Dunn, Michael, 1934-1973.
Korvin, Charles.
Rühmann, Heinz, 1902-1994.
Gold, Ernest, 1921-1999.
Mann, Abby.
Kramer, Stanley.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Notes
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Based on the book by Katherine Anne Porter.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965.
Special features: scene selection; trailers.
Music, Ernest Gold ; screenplay, Abby Mann ; producer/director, Stanley Kramer.
Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, Jose Greco, Michael Dunn, Charles Korvin, Heinz Ruehmann.
DVD; Dolby digital; remastered in High Definition.
In English with English, French or Japanese subtitled versions.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1965, including best picture, best actor, best actress, and best screenplay adaptation.
