Brand new factory sealed blu-ray of two highly acclaimed Black & White movies, the first was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and is epic in length at 2 1/2 hours.

SHIP of FOOLS is a multifaceted drama of an assortment of characters on a German oceanliner during the Nazi regime of the 1930s. The ships doctor (Oskar Werner) is the main thread with his involvement in a brief love affair with a Spanish countess (Simone Signoret) that makes for the focal implications and major sympathy. Around it swirl all other distasteful and pathetic characters:

The loud and noxious anti-Semite of scene-stealing Jose Ferrer who spreads the foulness of hatred through the first-class saloon; the aging, man-hating, lonely woman of the beautifully decaying Vivien Leigh; the comical cuss of Lee Marvin as a Texas baseball player, the story of whose life is compressed in his oft-repeated grumble that he can't hit a curve on the outside corner of the plate.

Around it, too, swirls the peevish and immature love affair of George Segal and Elizabeth Ashley as a pair of American artists and lovers; the cruelly contemptuous troupe of ferocious Spanish dancers headed by Jose' Greco; the stuffy and oversweet self-serving Germanic types; and the cryptic philosophizing of a cheerful dwarf, played superbly by Michael Dunn.

All of this is symbolic of the passage of humanity into the mouth of Nazism, if you choose to see it that way, and it may even be symbolic of the eternal folly and helplessness of man. It is a perpetually engrossing and thought-provoking film that deserves to be seen.

LILITH: Set in a private mental institution for the wealthy, a troubled war veteran named Vincent (Warren Beatty) takes a job there as occupational therapist. He becomes dangerously obsessed with seductive, artistic, schizophrenic patient LILITH (Jean Seberg).

Vincent is successful in helping Lilith emerge from seclusion and leave the grounds for a day in the country, and later escorts her on excursions in which she is alone with him. She attempts to seduce him, and eventually Vincent confessses that he is in love with her, after which they begin sleeping together. He then catches Lilith seducing an older female patient and witnesses her behaving inappropriately with underage boys on one of their outings, incidents which greatly disturb Vincent.

Vincent triggers the suicide of another patient out of jealousy over the patient's crush on Lilith. This brings up memories in Lilith of her brother's suicide, which she implies was due to her attempt to initiate an incestuous relationship with him. She goes on a destructive rampage in her room and winds up in a catatonic state. Vincent has a breakdown and presents himself to his superiors for psychiatric help.