The Poseidon Adventure
by Ronald Neame
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Actor: Carol Lynley, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Red Buttons, Shelley WintersDirector: Ronald Neame
Cinematographer: Harold E. Stine
Producer: Irwin Allen
Producer: Sidney Marshall
Producer: Steve Broidy
Writer: Paul Gallico
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
Writer: Wendell Mayes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Poseidon Adventure
Movie Review: Although dated, I liked it
Summary: 3 Stars
Even though this movie seems dated in technique, I thought the filmmakers - Ronald Neame (director) , Wendell Mayes (screenwriter) and Paul Gallico ( novel) did an excellent job.
It was great to see a younger Gene Hackman , Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons and Shelley Winters.
The FX worked and I was interested all the way through.
And John WIlliams did the music!
Summary of The Poseidon Adventure
Hands down, this is the best movie (and was one of the first) to come out of the seemingly endless cycle of disaster movies that dominated box offices during the 1970s. It could even be argued that Titanic owes some of its success to the precedent set by this 1972 blockbuster starring Gene Hackman as a priest who leads a small group of survivors to safety from the bowels of a capsized luxury liner. From its stellar cast to its cheesy, Oscar-winning theme song, The Morning After, the movie has all the ingredients of a popular classic, beginning with a New Year's Eve celebration aboard the ill-fated Poseidon and ending as a pop allegory when the Hackman character becomes a Christ-like martyr. Filmed on spectacular sets where everything down is up and the ship's thick hull points in the direction of salvation, this is "a waterlogged Grand Hotel" (in the words of New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael) that is as entertaining as it is unabashedly brainless. The Poseidon Adventure is filled with performances that rise above the limits of the screenplay. It's also the only movie--unless you count her underwater corpse in Night of the Hunter--that lets Shelley Winters strut her stuff as an aquatic heroine. Who could ask for anything more? --Jeff ShannonAction & Adventure DVD Video
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