Ship of Fools

E642707

Ship of Fools is a 1965 ensemble drama film set aboard a transatlantic ocean liner in the 1930s, exploring themes of prejudice and human folly as its diverse passengers’ lives intersect.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (3)

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf film
award Academy Award for Best Art Direction – Black-and-White NERFINISHED
Academy Award for Best Cinematography – Black-and-White NERFINISHED
basedOn Ship of Fools (novel) NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkAuthor Katherine Anne Porter NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Ernest Laszlo NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Stanley Kramer NERFINISHED
distributedBy Columbia Pictures
editedBy Robert C. Jones NERFINISHED
featuresCharacterType German nationalist
Jewish salesman
aging Southern belle
alcoholic ex–baseball player
featuresTheme antisemitism
class divisions
political tension in pre–World War II Europe
filmFormat black-and-white film
genre drama
romantic drama
hasEnsembleCast true
musicBy Ernest Gold NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus human folly
intersecting lives of passengers
prejudice
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
originalLanguage English
producer Stanley Kramer NERFINISHED
productionCompany Stanley Kramer Productions NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1965
releaseYear 1965
runtime 149 minutes
screenwriter Abby Mann NERFINISHED
settingPlace transatlantic ocean liner
settingTime 1930s
starredActor George Segal NERFINISHED
Heinz Rühmann NERFINISHED
Jose Ferrer NERFINISHED
Lee Marvin NERFINISHED
Oskar Werner NERFINISHED
Simone Signoret NERFINISHED
Vivien Leigh NERFINISHED

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ernest Laszlo notableWork Ship of Fools
Ernest Laszlo workedOn Ship of Fools
Ernest Gold notableWork Ship of Fools
this entity surface form: Ship of Fools (1965 film score)
Ernest Gold workedOn Ship of Fools
this entity surface form: Ship of Fools (1965 film)
George Segal notableWork Ship of Fools
Stanley Kramer notableWork Ship of Fools
Lilia Skala workedOn Ship of Fools
Simone Signoret notableWork Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter notableWork Ship of Fools
Vivian Mary Hartley notableWork Ship of Fools
subject surface form: Vivien Leigh