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SHIP OF FOOLS. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make fast company for the long haul...
SHIP OF FOOLS. This flashy melodrama is by Producer-Director Stanley Kramer out of Novelist Katherine Anne Porter's mordant allegory. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make fast company for the long haul...
SHIP OF FOOLS. This flashy popular melodrama by Producer-Director Stanley Kramer out of Novelist Katherine Anne Porter's mordant allegory concerns a German vessel bound from Veracruz to Bremerhaven during the early 1930s. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they have to spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner provide fast company for the long haul...
...less masterful is Lee Marvin's raw but incisive portrayal of a broken-down ballplayer who compresses his whole wretched life into a drunken, sobbing outburst about his inability to hit a curve ball on the outside corner. His table partner is an aging, embittered divorcee (Vivien Leigh), who reacts with exquisite distaste to a recital of his gastric misadventures in Mexico. Many scenes later, in a fit of sexual combustion, she beats Marvin nearly insensible with the heel of her gilded slipper...
...Culver City, Calif., were being fired and thus providing the climactic scene of the burning of Atlanta, Myron emerged through the smoke with a pert English brunette in tow. "I want you to meet Scarlett O'Hara," Myron announced dramatically. David Selznick agreed, signed up Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett...