Henry Calvin

A young boy, mistakenly believing his foster parents do not love him, runs away to join the circus and becomes good friends with a mischievous - but lovable - chimpanzee.

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930's represent society at large in that era.

As he's observing other voyagers aboard a German passenger freighter bound for Bremerhaven in 1933, a puckish dwarf named Glocken (Michael Dunn) warns that it is "a ship of fools," whose passengers are all deeply involved with one folly or another. As Virginia divorcee Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh) vainly flees middle age, the drug-dependent Spanish noblewoman, La Condesa (Simone Signoret) and the ship's doctor, Schumann (Oskar Werner) are falling in love. Unmarried young Americans Jenny and David (Elizabeth Ashley and George Segal) risk staying in separate cabins to see if they have a life beyond sex, while the Jewish Lowenthal (Heinz Ruehmann) is returning to Germany, a country which he still strongly believes in despite "extremists" like his cabin-mate, Rieber (Jose Ferrer), an anti-Semitic publisher. With a wife at home, Rieber is carrying on a shipboard romance with the Brunhildean Lizzi Spockenkieker (Barbara Luna). A baseball player who's past his prime, Bill Denny (Lee Marvin) is pursuing one of the Spanish dancers, while Elsa (Olga Fabian), a young Swiss girl, awaits only a spark to incite her to rebellion against her puritanical parents. One by one, their problems unfold during the voyage. Yet, upon disembarking, each goes their own way, leaving the bemused Glocken behind.

As he's observing other voyagers aboard a German passenger freighter bound for Bremerhaven in 1933, a puckish dwarf named Glocken (Michael Dunn) warns that it is "a ship of fools," whose passengers are all deeply involved with one folly or another. As Virginia divorcee Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh) vainly flees middle age, the drug-dependent Spanish noblewoman, La Condesa (Simone Signoret) and the ship's doctor, Schumann (Oskar Werner) are falling in love. Unmarried young Americans Jenny and David (Elizabeth Ashley and George Segal) risk staying in separate cabins to see if they have a life beyond sex, while the Jewish Lowenthal (Heinz Ruehmann) is returning to Germany, a country which he still strongly believes in despite "extremists" like his cabin-mate, Rieber (Jose Ferrer), an anti-Semitic publisher. With a wife at home, Rieber is carrying on a shipboard romance with the Brunhildean Lizzi Spockenkieker (Barbara Luna). A baseball player who's past his prime, Bill Denny (Lee Marvin) is pursuing one of the Spanish dancers, while Elsa (Olga Fabian), a young Swiss girl, awaits only a spark to incite her to rebellion against her puritanical parents. One by one, their problems unfold during the voyage. Yet, upon disembarking, each goes their own way, leaving the bemused Glocken behind.

SHIP OF FOOLS is set on a German ocean liner, during the Nazi regime of the 1930's. In the high class section are several well-to-do people, while below deck are a horde of sugar field workers returning to Spain after a season of work in Cuba. The ship is a hot bed of disillusionment, prejudice and delusions of grandeur.

All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses!

All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses!

Mary Contrary (Annette Funicello) and Tom Piper (Tommy Sands) are about to marry; but not if Barnaby (Ray Bolger) can help it! In a series of events that eventually leads the characters to Toyland, Mary, and Tom join the Toymaker (Ed Wynn) and his assistant (Tommy Kirk) in meeting Christmas' toy demand for Santa Claus.

A boy thinks his foster parents do not love him and runs away to join the circus.

A boy thinks his foster parents do not love him and runs away to join the circus.

Don Diego returns from Spain to challenge the cruel tyranny of Monastario.

TOBY TYLER takes you back in time to when the day the circus came to town was the biggest day of the year! Kevin Corcoran stars as the lovable, determined runaway who believes his uncle and aunt no longer want him, and life under the Big Top will put things right. Along the way he meets Ben, Mr. Tupper, and the mischievous Mr. Stubbs - a playful chimpanzee! Together they fall into hilarious jams and scams more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Get your peanuts, popcorn, and candied apples, and jump into a classic three-ring circus that will have the whole family in stitches!