SHIP OF FOOLS
1965 US 149 mins
Stanley Kramer directs this masterly and thought provoking evocation of the disparate characters returning to Germany from Mexico in 1933. The seriously powerful cast includes Vivien Leigh as a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, Jose Ferrer as a budding Nazi foreshadowing the brutishness to come. Nominated for eight Academy Awards at the time, this black and white classic continues to have relevance and a warning for every generation.