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The Poseidon Adventure (1972) 7.0
A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape, when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea. Director:Ronald Neame |
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Cast
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| Ernest Borgnine | ... | ||
| Red Buttons | ... |
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| Jack Albertson | ... | ||
| Pamela Sue Martin | ... | ||
| Arthur O'Connell | ... | ||
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Fred Sadoff | ... | |
| Sheila Allen | ... |
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Jan Arvan | ... |
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Combining the talents of fifteen Academy Award Winners See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
13 December 1972 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
La aventura del Poseidón See more »Box Office
Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$93,300,000 (USA)Company Credits
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints)| 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System)| Mono (35 mm optical prints)Color:
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2.35 : 1
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James Martin: Nobody can be as composed as you are Mrs Rogo.
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(uncredited)
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Played by the band on New Year's Eve
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Shelley Winters trained with an Olympic swim coach so that her character, who is a former award-winning swimmer, would come across more realistically in the underwater scenes. See more »Goofs
As the Tidal Wave is approaching, the Captain yells "Hard Left!". An experienced Officer would have yelled "Hard to Port!". See more »Quotes
Linda Rogo: Shut up! Shut up! C'mon get up this goddamned ramp!James Martin: Nobody can be as composed as you are Mrs Rogo.
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Crazy Credits
There is no 20th Century Fox logo animation displayed, beginning or end. An in-credit text-only notice for that company replaced the usual logo animation. See more »Soundtracks
"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"(uncredited)
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Played by the band on New Year's Eve
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The Poseidon Adventure is one of those movies I have seen at least once a year as long as I have been alive. I lived in Maine when I was a kid and we loved our natural disaster flicks. Of all the great disaster movies from the 70s, this has got to be the best one. Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelly Winters, Roddy McDowall, Leslie Neilson, and the list goes on.
The basic plot goes like this. The Poseidon is a cruise ship out for its last voyage and it is New Year's Eve. The guests are all celebrating while deep beneath the ocean's surface an earthquake is happening. The earthquake sets off a huge tsunami and the ship is knocked upside down. In order to be saved, a small group of people heads for the engine room at the bottom (make that top, since the ship is upside down) of the ship. At first, the ocean claims hundreds of the passengers until they are whittled down to about 10 people left. From here there are plenty of tense moments and a power struggle for control of the survivors. Typical disaster movie fare but done rather well.
This movie is a great main event for a disaster film weekend.