When Time Ran Out... (1980)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

James Goldstone

Writers:

Gordon Thomas (novel) and
Max Morgan Witts (novel) ...

Release Date:

28 March 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Tagline:

An all-star cast is on the run when Mother Nature blows her top!

Plot:

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Plot Keywords:

Island | Volcano | South Pacific | Loss Of Parent | Cave

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Paul Newman	...	Hank Anderson
Jacqueline Bisset	...	Kay Kirby
William Holden	...	Shelby Gilmore
Edward Albert	...	Brian
Red Buttons	...	Francis Fendly
Barbara Carrera	...	Iolani
Valentina Cortese	...	Rose Valdez (as Valentina Cortesa)
Veronica Hamel	...	Nikki Spangler
Alex Karras	...	Tiny Baker
Burgess Meredith	...	Rene Valdez
Ernest Borgnine	...	Tom Conti
James Franciscus	...	Bob Spangler
John Considine	...	John Webster
Sheila Allen	...	Mona
Pat Morita	...	Sam

Also Known As:

The Day the World Ended (Philippines: English title) (USA) (video title)
Earth's Final Fury (USA) (TV title)

Runtime:

121 min | Brazil:143 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Australia:PG | Sweden:15 | Finland:K-16 | USA:PG | Norway:16 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort and Spa - 78-128 Ehukai Street, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA

Company:

International Cinema

Trivia:

Paul Newman did not want to make this movie, but was still under contract with Irwin Allen from when he appeared in The Towering Inferno (1974)

Goofs:

Factual errors: The trigger for this eruption was an oil rig drilling into the side of the volcano, releasing a gusher. Oil fields are not found on or near active volcanoes as there is not enough time between eruptions for any petroleum products to be deposited or to form.

Quotes:

Hank Anderson: It's bad down here but it's worse up there!

Movie Connections:

Edited into La classe américaine (1993) (TV)

The most laughably bad effects and plot in the history of cinema.

It's hard to image a major motion picture any worse than this turkey.

Absolutely NOTHING makes any sense. Action sequences are so poorly

executed, you wonder if perhaps they hired brain-damaged high school

students to do most of the work.

Some favorites, not already mentioned:

The ranch-hand must ride on the outside of the helicopter. Dumb enough, but why

then fly DIRECTLY over the mouth of the volcano? You must be kidding.

-And when the guy predictably falls, we first see him fall backwards away from the 'copter, but them the immediate cut-away shot shows him clearly falling in a FORWARD roll. oops.

I also enjoyed seeing telephone poles fall over without anything hitting them, and as they fall over they don't looked cracked at all, just perfect horizontal bottoms that weren't really even in the ground.

Some guy's whole back catches on fire, and he rolls around for about ten

seconds. when they finally put out the flames, only a small part of the top of his jacket is scorched.

two people are flying past the smoking volcano in a helicopter. It suddenly

explodes with a loud crack and flames. Neither person reacts at all.

You could go on and on and on. Every few seconds there's another blatant goof or monumentally stupid scene.

You know, if someone made an edited DVD of this, with all the boring "personal interaction" scenes deleted, and ran a commentary along with the action, this would be possibly the most hilarious movie ever put out.