Ship of Fools | |
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Directed by | Stanley Kramer |
Screenplay by | Abby Mann |
Based on | Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools |
Produced by | Stanley Kramer |
Starring | Vivien Leigh Simone Signoret Jose Ferrer Lee Marvin Oskar Werner Elizabeth Ashley George Segal Jose Greco Michael Dunn Charles Korvin Heinz Ruehmann Lilia Skala |
Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo, A.S.C. |
Edited by | Robert C. Jones |
Music by | Ernest Gold |
Color process | Black and white Technicolor |
Production company | Stanley Kramer Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation |
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Running time | 150 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English German Spanish |
Box office | $3,500,000 (rentals) Anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America[1] |
Ship of Fools is a 1965 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, set on board an ocean liner bound for Germany from Mexico in 1933. It stars a prominent ensemble cast of 11 stars — Vivien Leigh (in her final film role), Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, Jose Greco, Michael Dunn, Charles Korvin and Heinz Ruehmann. It also marked Christiane Schmidtmer's first U.S. production filmed in Black and white to Technicolor (The Wizard of Oz).
Ship of Fools, which was based on Katherine Anne Porter's 1962 novel of the same name, was highly regarded, with reviewers praising the cast's performance but also noting, at 150 minutes, the movie's overlong (for 1965) runtime. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1966, including for Best Picture, Best Actor for Oskar Werner, Best Actress for Simone Signoret, and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Dunn. It won for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
Ship of Fools was the only English-language film in the nearly 70-year acting career of German film actor Heinz Rühmann, one of the most famous German actors of the 20th century.
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