Not good, not bad, just silly, this TV movie thriller has an all-star cast, all of them winning free cruises and finding that it's a date with death. So when the going got tough for veteran stars in the 1970's, they turn to these movies of the week, many of them produced by Aaron Spelling and a lot of them unintentionally funny.
Three couples, Richard Long and Polly Bergen, Tom Bosley and Celeste Holm, and Edward Albert and Kate Jackson all find their date with destiny to be rather tragic. Michael Constantine as the ship's doctor romances the unhappily married Polly Bergen after her husband falls off the ship presumably by accident, and Bosley, spending time trying to fend off his nagging wife Holm, finds himself all alone after a skeet shooting accident. The murders continue with Jackson barely showing emotion when Albert is found dead on the floor, basically having had little to say in the first place, completely wasted in the film.
Cesare Danova is obviously a major suspect as the captain. In the end, it really doesn't matter who lives and who survived and who really is the killer because the story is so ridiculous and trite and the characters so cliche that you'll probably forget about this 10 minutes after it is over. The deceased characters could end up on Fantasy Island and it wouldn't be any less realistic than the story going on in the 75 minutes that it takes to unfold. Fun mainly for the veteran cast members but not much else.
Three couples, Richard Long and Polly Bergen, Tom Bosley and Celeste Holm, and Edward Albert and Kate Jackson all find their date with destiny to be rather tragic. Michael Constantine as the ship's doctor romances the unhappily married Polly Bergen after her husband falls off the ship presumably by accident, and Bosley, spending time trying to fend off his nagging wife Holm, finds himself all alone after a skeet shooting accident. The murders continue with Jackson barely showing emotion when Albert is found dead on the floor, basically having had little to say in the first place, completely wasted in the film.
Cesare Danova is obviously a major suspect as the captain. In the end, it really doesn't matter who lives and who survived and who really is the killer because the story is so ridiculous and trite and the characters so cliche that you'll probably forget about this 10 minutes after it is over. The deceased characters could end up on Fantasy Island and it wouldn't be any less realistic than the story going on in the 75 minutes that it takes to unfold. Fun mainly for the veteran cast members but not much else.