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

The Poseidon Adventure

PG
1h 57m
1972

80%

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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®

80%

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

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Rachel Wagner

Compelling characters I enjoyed following

The picture would be more fun if we cared about who got killed and who survived.

When reviewed, for the benefit of 21st century moviegoers, this is a rather silly but sweet disaster flick with a lot of camp appeal. When critiqued, to better understand cinema, this really is a mold-breaking master work.

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.

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