Finished watching SHIP OF FOOLS last night, and enjoyed it. There certainly are scenes that could use some trimming, but I was pretty well engrossed by the proceedings. I want to do some reading up on it, then return to it for a good straight through viewing.
Never a fan of the film.
However, one day when they were filming, a friend who worked at Columbia got me onto the set and everybody (Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, George Seagal, etal) was working that day. Not only that: watching them film was Spencer Tracy.
Quite a thrill for a young guy who'd just moved to Hollywood a 4-5 months earlier.