Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noah-like, Stanley Kramer has packed a cross section of humanity aboard his microcosmic Ship of Fools. There's a washed-up baseball player, a Nazi, a German Jew, a countess, two emancipated American women, an artist, 600 starving Spaniards, and a dwarf...
...Somehow, Kramer is worried that we'll miss the point (the world is a bum place). So he chucks away any thoughts of character development and splices together two-and-a-half hours of drunken tete-a-tetes to make sure that everyone on board gets a chance to bemoan the futility...
...dwarf don't like Lowenthal, the Jew. This ship, you see, is German, and the year is 1933. Tender-hearted Lowenthal laughs off the discourtesy of his shipmates: "There are nearly a million Jews in Germany. What are they going to do, kill all of us?" At which point Kramer stops the music, ends the conversation, and gives the audience ample time to gasp...
SHIP OF FOOLS. Although Director Stanley Kramer has turned the allegorical Ship into a showboat, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin...
SHIP OF FOOLS. Although Director Stanley Kramer has turned the allegorical Ship into a showboat, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make good company for the long haul...