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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305280743
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305280746
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 09, 1999
Running Time: 117 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1972
Editorial Review:
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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 Shannon
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Look for the film with Jim Brown in it, its called Slaughter, and in the film Stella shows off her headlights for your personal edification and your viewing pleasure.
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I saw this movie for the second time just a few days ago, after seeing it when it first came out 37 years ago in 1972. Amazingly, it still holds up very well and remains one of the great disaster and adventure classics, along with The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, all of which came out during this frenzied period of disaster movie making.
It's funny which subjects seem to catch on in each decade. In the 60s we had cold war thrillers like The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, ... Read More
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What can I say about the GREATEST disaster film
of all time. The film was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and won for best song as well as an honorary award for "Best Visual Effects" and this was all before CGI (blue screen),real fire, real smoke and real water. This film even out grossed it's re-make "Poseidon" with 1972 dollars. Great cast (combining the talents of 15 Academy Award winners) including the BRILLIANT Shelley Winters who gives a heart wrenching performance as a plump jewish grandmother ... Read More
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Out of all the diaster flicks of the 70s, this has got to be the best. Not that Towering Inferno wasn't good, it was just too long for my tastes. There's only so many times I can see an exterior shot of the same building on fire. Anyway, unlike the recent remakes, this version makes you actually care about who survives. Hackman, Borgnine and Winters give the best performances. Some bits with Hackman are his talks with his priest friend about being renegade in the beginning along with his sermon. My absolute ... Read More
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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!
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