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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Who will survive - in one of the greatest escape adventures
ever!
Director: Ronald Neame, rated PG
  Starring: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol
Lynley, Shelley Winters, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Jack
Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell, Eric Shea,
Leslie Nielsen, Fred Sadoff
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★★
- perfect
DML Top 100
#97 -
Dad's Full (Spoiler) Review
and Deep Dive of The Poseidon Adventure
"We're cut off from the
rest of the world. They can't get to us. Maybe we can get to
them. You've said enough, now get out of the way." - Rev.
Frank Scott
Why watch this?
This is the great disaster film by which all others should be
compared.
Plot Summary:
A cruise ship is hit by a huge rogue wave and capsizes, still
afloat, yet upside down. A small group of cruise passengers, led
by a determined, plain-spoken preacher, work
their way through the badly damaged ship, en route to the inverted hull,
where (thanks to a very informed ten-year-old boy) the hull is
only one inch thick. The dead and burnt
litter their path, and we sense that not everyone will
survive their perilous journey.
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Dad's Preview:
This disaster classic feels completely real as we follow a group
of ordinary folks fighting to survive a dire, uncertain situation. The trick in
these flicks is present dangerous obstacles, without it
appearing too contrived. This was producer, Irwin Allen's,
superpower. It also helps that an incredible cast was assembled. I will
single out Gene Hackman as the tough, fiery preacher; Ernest Borgnine, as
the grumpy, complaining NYC cop; and Shelly Winters, as a Jewish woman too
heavy to even be on the journey, but she has her moment - and,
man, it's a great one. Folks, this is how great action films were
done before CGI came along and all but ruined character
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Irwin Allen, Kent Productions,
Ltd.;
20th Century Fox
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