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Title: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
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(1972)
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Ronald Neame,
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Ernest Borgnine,
Shelley Winters
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Airport 1975
(1974)
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Director:
Jack Smight
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Charlton Heston,
Karen Black,
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The Concorde... Airport '79
(1979)
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Drama
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Thriller
Director:
David Lowell Rich
Stars:
Alain Delon,
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Robert Wagner
The Hindenburg
(1975)
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History
Director:
Robert Wise
Stars:
George C. Scott,
Anne Bancroft,
William Atherton
Airport '77
(1977)
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Thriller
Director:
Jerry Jameson
Stars:
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Lee Grant,
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The Swarm
(1978)
Horror
Director:
Irwin Allen
Stars:
Michael Caine,
Katharine Ross,
Richard Widmark
The Poseidon Adventure
(TV Movie 2005)
Adventure
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Action
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Drama
Director:
John Putch
Stars:
Adam Baldwin,
Rutger Hauer,
Steve Guttenberg
Meteor
(1979)
Action
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Drama
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Sci-Fi
Director:
Ronald Neame
Stars:
Sean Connery,
Natalie Wood,
Karl Malden
The Towering Inferno
(1974)
Action
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Drama
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Thriller
Director:
John Guillermin
Stars:
Paul Newman,
Steve McQueen,
William Holden
Action
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Drama
Director:
James Goldstone
Stars:
Paul Newman,
Jacqueline Bisset,
William Holden
Gray Lady Down
(1978)
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History
Director:
David Greene
Stars:
Charlton Heston,
David Carradine,
Stacy Keach
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| Michael Caine | ... | ||
| Sally Field | ... | ||
| Telly Savalas | ... | ||
| Peter Boyle | ... | ||
| Jack Warden | ... | ||
| Shirley Knight | ... | ||
| Shirley Jones | ... | ||
| Karl Malden | ... | ||
| Slim Pickens | ... | ||
| Veronica Hamel | ... | ||
| Angela Cartwright | ... | ||
| Mark Harmon | ... | ||
| Paul Picerni | ... | ||
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After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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Before her fate is sealed by the deep, the superliner Poseidon will reveal one last secret. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
18 May 1979 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Return of the Poseidon See more »Box Office
Budget:
$10,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Captain Stefan Svevo: It took two years to put this thing together. You really believe I can get off, *without* it?
Suzanne Constantine: I've done everything you wanted. Now I just want to get out!
Captain Stefan Svevo: I understand, but I've got the bullet, if I could've avoided it. But since I'm here, since we're *both* here, we've got to see this thing through!
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John Wayne had been offered the lead role in 1978 and expressed interest in the project, but changed his mind after reading the script. See more »Goofs
In the original, the helicopter rescuing survivors is a Sikorsky S-55 variant but this helicopter becomes a Sikorsky S-61 variant in the sequel. See more »Quotes
Suzanne Constantine: Please can we just get out of here as quickly as possible?Captain Stefan Svevo: It took two years to put this thing together. You really believe I can get off, *without* it?
Suzanne Constantine: I've done everything you wanted. Now I just want to get out!
Captain Stefan Svevo: I understand, but I've got the bullet, if I could've avoided it. But since I'm here, since we're *both* here, we've got to see this thing through!
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How many movies get the chance of being made by the extraordinary,proficient,astonishing Allen and/or having Caine,Mrs. Field,Savallas,Shirley Jones in the cast?
Caine's role,in itself,is a jewel;he just fits in.He is energetic, lucid,sharp, intelligent,manly,as fit as a fiddle.Caine knows how to make a super-action flick,without needing to be Willis or Ford.He should be very proud of his role in "Beyond ...".For me,this is one of the most cherished Caine shows.(Caine is himself a cinema,he did an incredible number of good flicks.)Mrs. Field is enchanting,natural, inventive, fresh, luminous, spontaneous,funny,resourceful.(How do I miss an actress like her when I see that imbecile girls in so many cheap-looking shows!With few exceptions,such as Miss Rachel Luttrell,Miss Torri Higginson,or Mrs. Blalock,did you notice how many imbecile-looking girls crowd to fill the sets of the shows?)
The action does not stagnate for a moment.
Savallas got his bigger/better roles elsewhere;but the villain he does here is,as such,memorable and a landmark for the genre.He coins a comic strip villain.(I mean,Nero in Die Hard 2 ,Alan Rickman in Die Hard ,are zero compared to Savallas in "Beyond ...".)
The colors of this movie are delightful.
And how many shows offer so much fun?For me,only the first two episodes of Stargate Atlantis (Rising (Part 1)&Rising (Part 2)).
Many people,who commented "Beyond ...",have expressed a lot of reserves and reticence,about various things;I think they were unjust,and way too exacting.
Between 56 and 64 years,Allen made (i.e,directed and/or produced) several disaster movies:the diptych The Poseidon Adventure ,1972,and The Towering Inferno ,1974—for the movie theaters;then, another diptych—for TV this time: Flood! ,1976,and Fire! ,1977;then a trilogy,for the big screen again: The Swarm ,1978, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ,1979, When Time Ran Out... ,1980—an activity that was ambitious and often successful.In '80,Allen was 64 years old.In his disaster movies that he made during the '70s,Allen uses the entire palette of the genre.His main merit is,of course,that of creating a very pure form of adventure movies.During '72-'80, The Master of Disaster also found time for some important TV work.So,he was for disaster,he was for Sci-Fi,sometimes he was for both of them—and always for fancy,adventure and fun. Fortunately ,he had the opportunity to develop fully his thoughts and to express himself plenary.
Some fans complain that The Master of Disaster's work was uneven,unequal;anyway,his best films are matchless in their genre.The man made at least 9 remarkable feature movies (of which some 6 are very good—the 5 feature films made between '72 and '80,and also Five Weeks in a Balloon ,1962;but the movies from '59-'61 are worth watching as well …),several interesting TV movies (in the '70s and '80s),and also several TV series and/or miniseries.I do not know any other director to be able of such a continuity in a couple of genres (the disaster/adventures,and Sci-Fi).