Ship of Fools 1965 123movies

Watch: Ship of Fools 1965 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 includes a wife and sons back in Bremerhaven. Among the other motley crew of passengers are: Mary Treadwell, a middle-aged American divorcée who is trying to recapture her youth; Tenny, a middle-aged American ex-baseball player who laments never having made it big in the game; David and Jenny, a young American couple who say they are in love but who have to overcome their fundamental differences in social standing and life outlooks; Rieber, a middle-aged German Nazi sympathizer who is traveling with a young woman companion and who lords his beliefs over the other German passengers, who in turn are either so self-absorbed with their own lives and/or just don’t care to notice what is happening in Germany with the Nazis; and Lowenthal and Glocken, a German Jew and a German dwarf respectively, who are “paired” as the outsiders among those in first class. Their encounters, plus those with a rambunctious pair of children, two German teenagers who are coming into their sexual being but are having problems overcoming issues they face, and a troupe of gypsy entertainers whose women are pimped out by their leader, lead to an interesting voyage..
Plot: Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship’s Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
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	7.0/10 Votes: 6,264
	64% | RottenTomatoes
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Reviews:

An Imperfect Gem
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.

“Ship Of Fools” (1965) movie is better than K. A. Porter’s book, and possibly the best ensemble top actors movie ever made.
“Ship Of Fools” (1965) movie is better than K. A. Porter’s book, and possibly the best ensemble top actors movie ever made.

The movie got two Academy Awards….one for best cinematography, and the other for best art direction. Both deserved.

“Ship Of Fools” (1965) also deserved (but did not get, sadly) multiple “Best Actor” and Best Actress” awards [“Best Supporting Actor/ Actress awards, also].

High quality, in-depth acting of true talent and accomplishment have seldom ever reached the levels achieved in this movie, done repeatedly, again and again and again, from start to finish.

The movie contained at least half a dozen (possibly more) Academy Award winner best actor performances…..at least three best actor academy award winners performed (incredibily) in this movie (Lee Marvin, Vivien Leigh, and Jose Ferrer), and others (some who may have gotten academy awards I overlooked) were also wonderful in all ways (Simone Signoret, Oscar Werner, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, Gila Golan, Jose Greco, and Barbara Luna….who sang the famous “Dites Moi” song in South Pacific on the Broadway stage when she was a little girl in 1949!).

The titles at the start of movie are incredible, and deserve to be ranked with the best of all movie titles ever presented (someday, a special award for movie titles will be established….if this has not already been done, it is certainly an unmet need…..movie titles are important, are an art unto themselves, and a major asset to movies when done well………see the titles for Bullitt 1968 and North By Northwest 1959 as only two examples of “the best of the best movie titles…the “Ship Of Fools” 1965 movie titles are part of the “the best of the best.”) The Abby Mann written screenplay is really an original screenplay with an original story, by far better than the best selling Katherine Anne Porter novel also titled “Ship Of Fools” …. not at all the same as the book….better! Stanley Kramer’s direction is wonderful.

Original music by Ernest Gold in the movie includes a German language song performed very well by Jose Ferrer. The title of the song is “Heute abend geh’n wir bummein auf der Reeperbahn,” and it is a true “gemutlicheit” German language song, indeed, even if it was written in the USA for a Hollywood, English language movie.

This movie is a true gem, and deserves to be ranked as one of the best movies of all times.

All movie actors (I am one) should see this movie….it’s a chance to see “the best of the best” one after the other after the other after the other.

Acting just doesn’t get better than is the case in “Ship Of Fools” (1965).

————– Written by Tex Allen, SAG Actor Email Tex Allen at [email protected] Visit WWW.IMDb.Me/TexAllen for movie credits and biography information.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 29 min (149 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance, War
Director Stanley Kramer
Writer Katherine Anne Porter, Abby Mann
Actors Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer
Country United States
Awards Won 2 Oscars. 5 wins & 13 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm