The Poseidon Adventure

Name: The Poseidon Adventure
Released: 1972-12-12
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall

PG
1h 57m
1972

81%

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An all-star cast that includes Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, Shelley Winters and Leslie Nielsen heads this acclaimed film that set the standard for disaster movies. When the world’s largest ocean liner is capsized by a tidal wave, only ten passengers survive. Now, the race is on for these ten to make their way from the capsized top of the ship up to the bottom before they drown.

Director:

Ronald Neame

Producer:

Irwin Allen

Writer:

Stirling Silliphant, Wendell Mayes

Cast:

Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell, Eric Shea, Leslie Nielsen

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Critics Consensus: The Poseidon Adventure exemplifies the disaster film done right, going down smoothly with ratcheting tension and a terrific ensemble to give the peril a distressingly human dimension.

Reviews

48 Hills

Dennis Harvey

Silly as it is, it was probably the best of the cycle it started in earnest.

Fifty years after its theatrical release, The Poseidon Adventure remains one of the gold standards in the disaster genre.

The special effects are extraordinary, along with the topsy-turvy sets, augmenting a nerve-wracking plot of distressing exploration, frazzled nerves, and creeping death.

Titanic without the smarm.

June 22, 2017

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Steve Crum

Classic of disaster movie genre with memorable cast.

June 21, 2017