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During the lively late show at London's newest nightclub, underdressed chorus girls grind in the naughtiest Memphis manner while patrons dine on smoked salmon and chicken à la Maryland. Called "Showboat" and located in the Strand, the club is so popular that it is booked solid on weekends through New Year's. The most extraordinary fact about it, however, is its owner: London's J. Lyons & Co., Ltd., known to Britons for years as the conservative proprietor of 170 staid, gold-and-white-fronted teahouses scattered through their country...
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...
...voyage to eternity." Her passengers were pimps, bigots, weaklings and other morally rumpled types, booked from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on the German vessel Vera during the early 1930s. Skirting the allegorical deeps, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer and Scenarist Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) have turned Ship into just another showboat-a flashy popular melodrama, acted with everyman-for-himself urgency by a troupe of scintillating international stars...
...hardened war veterans, "The Showboat" spectacular may seem like so much sentimental bilge. But most customers come away battle-weary and a bit teary-eyed...