Ship of fools
(DVD)

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DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 149 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English

Notes

General Note
Film based on the book by Katherine Anne Porter.
General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965.
General Note
Nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1965, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay Adaptation.
General Note
Special features of this DVD: Karen Kramer introduction ; Voyage on a soundstage ; On board the Ship of Fools ; photo gallery.
Creation/Production Credits
Music, Ernest Gold ; screenplay, Abby Mann.
Participants/Performers
Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, José Greco, Michael Dunn, Charles Korvin, Heinz Ruehmann.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD.
Language
Audio tracks in English and French ; subtitled in English and French.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kramer, S., Leigh, V., Signoret, S., Ferrer, J., Marvin, L., Werner, O., Ashley, E., Segal, G., Greco, J., Dunn, M., Korvin, C., Rüehmann, H., Porter, K. A., Gold, E., & Mann, A. (2008). Ship of fools (Full screen version.). Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Stanley, Kramer et al.. 2008. Ship of Fools. Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Stanley, Kramer et al.. Ship of Fools Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, 2008.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kramer, Stanley,, et al. Ship of Fools Full screen version., Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, 2008.

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