ブログ

Plot
The characters board a German ocean liner in Veracruz, Mexico, for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany, along with 600 displaced workers in steerage, being deported from Cuba back to Spain, and a not-so-exotic band of entertainers, for whom the voyage is just a job. Some are happy to be bound for a rising Nazi Germany, some are apprehensive, while others appear oblivious to its potential dangers.

The ship's doctor, Schumann (Oskar Werner) (with dueling scar), takes a special interest in La Condesa (Simone Signoret), a countess from Cuba who has an addiction to drugs and is being shipped to a Spanish-run prison on Tenerife. Her sense of certain doom is contrasted by the doctor's determination to fight the forces of oppression, embodied by his insistence that the people in steerage be treated like human beings rather than animals. The doctor himself has a secret, a terminal heart condition, and his sympathy for the countess soon evolves into love.

Several passengers are invited to dine each night at the captain's table. There, some are amused and others offended by the anti-Semitic rants of a German businessman named Rieber (José Ferrer) who – although married – is beginning an on-board affair with a busty blonde (Christiane Schmidtmer). The Jewish Lowenthal (Heinz Rühmann) is invited instead to join a dwarf named Glocken (Michael Dunn) for his meals, and the two bond over their exclusion. Eventually a passenger named Freytag (Alf Kjellin) seems shocked to find himself ostracized when Rieber learns that his wife is Jewish.

Others aboard include a young American couple, David (George Segal) and Jenny (Elizabeth Ashley), who bicker because David is unhappy at his lack of success with painting. A divorcée, Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh), drinks and flirts, on a quest to recapture her youth in Paris. Bill Tenny (Lee Marvin) is a former baseball player disappointed in the way his career never quite took off. They are distracted by the music and the professional dancers, whose flirtations seem to skirt the edges of solicitation, or dive right in to the seedy side of oblivion.

When the passengers disembark, two are no longer with them – the countess, who has been taken to an island prison, and the doctor, who has died.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Fools_(film)

Cast
Vivien Leigh as Mary Treadwell　ヴィヴィアン・リー
Jose Ferrer as Siegfried Rieber　ホセ・フェラー
Lee Marvin as Bill Tenny　リー・マーヴィン
Simone Signoret as La Condesa　シモーヌ・シニョレ
Oskar Werner as Dr. Wilhelm "Willi" Schumann　オスカー・ウェルナー
Elizabeth Ashley as Jenny Brown　エリザベス・アシュレー
George Segal as David Scott　ジョージ・シーガル

Academy Awards
Won
Best Art Direction (Black and White)
Best Cinematography (Black and White)

Nominated
Best Actor (Oscar Werner)
Best Supporting Actor (Michael Dann)
Best Actress (Simone Signoret)
Best Costume Design (Black and White)
Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay

今日は1965年公開スタンリー・クレイマー監督の愚か者の船です。
この映画は風と共に去りぬでスカーレット・オハラを演じたヴィヴィアン・リー最後の作品です。
しかしあまり知られている映画とは言えません。
クレイマー監督は社会派のドラマを多く出がけました。代表作に招かれざる客やニュールンベルグ裁判、真昼の決闘が挙げられます。
この映画は一言で言えばユダヤ人差別、ナチスドイツに対する風刺といったところでしょうか。
多くの人物の生き様が語られ、大空港と同様グランドホテル方式で進みます。
2時間30分と長めの映画ですが無駄な部分はないと思います。