Scott believes they are heading for their doom, but Rogo wants to follow them and gives Scott 15 minutes to find the engine room. Haberdasher James Martin is a love-shy, health-conscious bachelor. The score was first released as a CD by Film Score Monthly in July 1998. [8] La-La Land Records released a second, newly remastered edition of Williams' score on December 3, 2019 as part of a boxset also including Williams' scores for Earthquake and The Towering Inferno. Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water. However, the ship's purser tells them to wait for help. 30 of 34 people found this review helpful. Scott leads the survivors to the propeller shaft room's watertight door, but additional explosions cause Linda to lose her grip and fall to her death. Susan Shelby and her younger brother Robin are traveling to meet their parents. The Poseidon Adventure has been remade twice, first as a television special in 2005 with the same name and as a theatrical release titled Poseidon in 2006. [5][6] Steve Broidy and Sherrill Corwin helped finance the rest. With Oscar®-winning special effects and an all-star cast (including Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen and many more), The Poseidon Adventure is the mother of all disaster movies. “The Poseidon Adventure” wouldn’t have been much of a disaster movie (or my most cherished film at age 11) if the ocean liner could handle a 90 … The engine room is on the other side of a flooded corridor. Celebrate New Year’s Eve aboard the S.S. Poseidon, and experience one of the standouts of the 1970s disaster-movie craze: The Poseidon Adventure. [13], Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and called it "the kind of movie you know is going to be awful, and yet somehow you gotta see it, right? Hell, Upside Down! Leaving the shaft, the group meets a large band of survivors led by the ship's doctor, heading toward the bow. Review: "Meteor" (1979) Starring Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Brian Keith And Karl Malden, Blu-ray Release From Kino Lorber Studio Classics, The 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Disaster Movies Ever Made, Ernest Borgnine movies: 12 greatest films ranked worst to best, Jonas Cuaron's Top 10 Survival Thrillers of All Time, Most Deserving of the Special Achievement Award, The Poseidon Adventure: Falling Up with Ernie. As seawater floods the dining room, those remaining attempt to climb the tree, but their weight causes it to fall. It is New Year's Eve, and over 2,000 passengers & crew are ringing in the New Year aboard the huge cruise ship 'Poseidon' when it capsizes on the open sea in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean! Poseidon is a 2006 American survival thriller film directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen.It is the third film adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure, and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name.It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, and Andre Braugher. "[15] Variety called the film "a highly imaginative and lustily-produced meller" with "some of the most exciting sequences seen in years. [5][9], It has been released on VHS, Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-ray. Retired Jewish store owner Manny Rosen and wife, Belle, are going to Israel to meet their 2-year-old grandson for the first time. "[17] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "the special effects—the genuinely remarkable production values and technical wizardries—sweep everything else aside. Plot Summary | Add Synopsis But who cares? The film was released in December 1972 and was the highest-grossing film of 1973 and grossed over $125 million worldwide. He receives word from the lookout that a tsunami is approaching from the direction of Crete. For those expecting this to be like an over the top, action adventure flick where the cute and clever kids save the day, and the plucky square jawed hero pulls everyone through... forget it. The Poseidon Adventure is the kind of movie you know is going to be awful, and yet somehow you gotta see it, right? Share to Reddit. A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. [23] The film earned rentals of $75 million worldwide,[6] from a worldwide gross of over $125 million. [2], When the film made its network television premiere on ABC on October 27, 1974, it earned a Nielsen rating of 39.0 and an audience share of 62%, making it the sixth highest rated film to ever air on network television. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive. The survivors notice the delay, and Belle dives in. Reverend Scott, a minister who believes "God helps those who help themselves", is traveling to a new parish in Africa as punishment for his unorthodox views. Scott attempts to convince the dozens of survivors in the dining room to travel with him to the ship's hull. On New Year's Eve, she is overturned by a tsunami. ***This film is under license from Sonar Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved. Halfway through, a panel collapses on him. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the S.S. Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90-foot wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks. In 1972, The Poseidon Adventure" - the unforgettable movie about a capsized cruise ship and the desperate struggle upwards to safety of its survivors - set new standards amidst the flood of disaster movies which swept through the cinemas in the 1970's. Share to Popcorn Maker. Is the hokum a bit thick even in the context of a showmanship special? ***PART 1 is here! Robin tells him the hull near the propeller shaft is only 1 inch (3 cm) thick. Blu Ray Movies Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Arnold, Gary (December 27, 1972). The ship is hit broadside and capsizes, floating upside-down. It features an ensemble cast, including five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. Rogo leads the remaining survivors—Rosen, Martin, Nonnie, Susan, and Robin—through the watertight doors and into the propeller shaft tunnel. Share to Facebook. The Poseidon Adventure is a 2005 American made-for-television disaster film based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name. (1972). The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name. Acres falls and dies when the shaft explodes. Is the moralizing heavy-handed and relentless? Instead he is shown floating upside down with only his feet in sight jutting out from an SS Poseidon life perserver. Share via email. From Wings to Parasite, here's a look back at all of the Best Picture Oscar winners in the history of the ceremony. Leading the group is minister Gene Hackman and the rest are married couples, Jack Albertson and Shelley Winters, Ernest Borgnine and Stella Stevens, musician/singer Carol Lynley, hypochondriac Red Buttons, steward Roddy McDowell, and teenager Pamela Sue Martin and her little brother Eric Shea.You do get wrapped up and sucked into the conflicts especially with Ernest Borgnine who's simultaneously got a war going with Gene Hackman and with his wife Stella Stevens. Poseidon. It features an ensemble cast, including five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters and Red Buttons. The Rosens, the Rogos, Susan, Robin, Acres, Nonnie, and Martin agree to go with Scott, using a Christmas tree as a ladder. Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive, diverse representations in … John Vogel
. From The Poseidon Adventure: 15. Raising The Christmas Tree (03:24) From The Poseidon Adventure: 19. The Poseidon Adventure EMBED. Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California. The plot centers on the fictional SS Poseidon, an aged luxury liner on her final voyage from New York City to Athens before being sent to the scrapyard. They hear a noise from outside and bang on the hull to attract attention. He's got a rambunctious nature and Borgnine provides a lot of the interest here.Jack Albertson and Shelley Winters are the typical elderly Jewish couple who are on a trip to Israel to visit the grandchild they've never seen. Written by "Escapism is in season over on State Street". Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. "[12] Metacritic gave the film a score of 70 based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The score for the film was composed and conducted by John Williams. As usual, only the special effects and set designers and the stunt men have been permitted to be playful and creative. In the dining room, survivors take stock of their predicament. She's an ex-hooker who he busted several times and eventually married. Share to Pinterest. It was performed in the film by Renée Armand, dubbing for Carol Lynley. 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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American action-adventure disaster film and a sequel to The Poseidon Adventure (1972) directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine and Sally Field.. "'Poseidon Adventure' Diverting". [27] It is in the vein of other all-star disaster films of the 1970s such as Airport and later ones like Earthquake (1974) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Its cover was the first Mad Magazine not to show Alfred E. Neuman's face. Author Paul Gallico has created a dark masterpiece where he uses the disaster as a metaphor for the turning of people's seemingly ordinary lives literally upside down and stripping them of their quaint civilized comforts. Belle reveals she is a former competitive swimmer and volunteers to go through, but Scott refuses her and dives in. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 Mark Sells Oregon Herald On New Year's Eve, she is overturned by a tsunami. The ship's singer, Nonnie Parry, rehearses for the New Year's Day celebration. Synopsis The SS Poseidon, a trans-Atlantic passenger steamship slated for retirement, is making its way across the Atlantic from New York City to Athens on its last voyage. Released by La-La Land Records in 2010 (LLLCD 1133) containing music from The Poseidon Adventure (1972). On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The song "The Morning After", written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 45th Academy Awards in March 1973. Likewise it "exposed" stereotypical cliches of the survivors and had Robin Shelley running for his life by Mike Rogo after the boy remembers that if the ship ever turned over you'd only have to wait 2 hours before it turned itself right back up again!It became the best selling issue in the magazine's history.[29]. Spectacle is great and I love it, but a good story with characters you care about is what makes the Poseidon Adventure the fine film it is. At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. He issues a mayday distress signal. A ruptured pipe releases steam, blocking their escape. It also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and for Best Original Score by John Williams. Scott leads his group toward the engine room. A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive. 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. The film went on to earn theatrical rentals of $40 million in the United States and Canada in 1973 being the highest-grossing film of the year. 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