At the end of the day, only six survive but the number could have been higher. As such, they only focus on a small band of survivors that battle their way to the end of the film. Between the star-studded cast and visual effects, there’s not going to be enough left for hiring more name actors. When you have a film of this nature, they can only focus on so many people! Even for what went for production budgets in 1972, they can only do so much with a $4.7 million budget. You can’t help but feel for every loss as they happen on screen. Scott’s tiny band of survivors, not everyone would make it out alive. Ultimately, the other group doesn’t make it out alive. They do end up finding another group but Scott believes it’s a mistake to head to the bow. Others make attempt but their weight proves to be too much for the tree. With explosions happening every which way one looks, only nine people successfully follow Scott to safety. Scott believes that they’ll find their safety in the ship’s engine room. In addition to them, there’s haberdasher James Martin (Red Buttons), singer Nonnie Parry (Carol Lynley), and injured waiter Acres (Roddy McDowall). Manny (Jack Albertson) and Belle Rosen (Shelley Winters) are traveling to Israel in order to meet their 2-year-old grandson for the first time.
Susan Shelby (Pamela Sue Martin) and younger brother Robin (Eric Shea) are in route to meet their vacationing parents in Greece. There’s Detective Lieutenant Mike Rogo (Ernest Borgnine) and wife Linda (Stella Stevens). We get to meet the core cast before all of the drama starts. Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) takes charge and leads the few survivors to safety. Both passengers and crew are trapped as the boat overturns.
A trip from New York City to Athens should be a simple one, right? Come New Year’s Day, all hell breaks lose when the ship finds itself the victim of a tsunami. Where the Titanic is on its maiden voyage, the SS Poseidon is on its last journey. The ship said to be unsinkable is resting on the bottom of the Atlantic as a result. No, we saw it decades before when the Titanic hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The Poseidon isn’t the first ship to be doomed to this fate and it won’t be the last. It only results in doom for the ship’s passengers.
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Whenever someone representing the ocean liner–Linarcos (Fred Sadoff)–tells you to go full speed ahead, don’t listen to them. The other disaster thrillers were rewatched in the week that followed.
Can you believe it is already 50 years old?!? I should note that my viewing of the film came one day ahead of the Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis.
Appropriately, I decided to do the same for my review of The Poseidon Adventure given the milestone anniversary. Anyway, I ran my reviews of Dante’s Peak and Volcano on their 25th anniversaries. When there’s an attack at a shul–as there was this year–it’s hard to be in the mood for much of anything else.
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I started watching a series of disaster thrillers in January since my headspace wasn’t really in the mood for much of anything else. I found it a fairly engrossing watch - quite a tense one at that and while its not quite Titanic (or, perhaps moreso the case, think of it as an older version of Titanic, on a (I assume) smaller budget), I would still recommend it to others as it is somewhat atmospheric, in a claustrophobic sort of a sense.The Poseidon Adventure, the 1972 Oscar-winning disaster film, marks the 50th anniversary of its theatrical release and doomed voyage. Given this film dates from the early 1970s, the special effects aren't plentiful or impressive when compared to todays standards but I felt the performances were alright overall (well, there are some instances of slightly over the top performances but others are alright) and so made up for that. There are some instances of quite witty retorts given by passengers in response to what they believe to be fanciful suggestions. There are some instances of quite witty retorts given by passengers in response to what This is a film about people with clashing personalities, having to try and get on, a bunch of, you could say, rag tag types having to pull together to try and find a way out of their gloomy predicament. This is a film about people with clashing personalities, having to try and get on, a bunch of, you could say, rag tag types having to pull together to try and find a way out of their gloomy predicament.
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