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The Poseidon Adventure

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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

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Hell, Upside Down

At midnight on New Year's Eve the S.S.Poseidon was struck by a 90 foot tidal wave and capsized

Who will survive-in one of the greatest escape adventures ever!

Combining the talents of fifteen Academy Award Winners



The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American action-adventure disaster film, directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's novel of the same name. The film features an all star cast, including Gene Hackman, Carol Lynley, Ernest Borgnine, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons, Leslie Nielsen, and in an early screen role, Pamela Sue Martin. It won a Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects and an Academy Award for Best Original Song (for "The Morning After"). Shelley Winters won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role. It also received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
The plot centers on the SS Poseidon, an aged luxury liner from the golden age of travel, on her final voyage from New York City to Athens before being sent to the scrapyard. On New Year's Eve, she is overturned by a tsunami caused by an underwater earthquake. Passengers and crew are trapped inside and a rebellious preacher attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety.
Parts of the films were filmed aboard the RMS Queen Mary, whose encounter with a rogue wave in 1942 inspired the book upon which the film is based.
Boxoffice Magazine reported "The Poseidon Adventure" as the #1 Box Office Champ of 1973. By the end of 1974, it ranked among the six most successful features in film history, along with Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, Love Story, Airport, and The Sound of Music. It is in the vein of other all-star disaster films of the 1970s such as Airport and later ones like Earthquake and The Towering Inferno. It was remade twice, first as a television special in 2005 with the same name, and a theatrical release with the name Poseidon in 2006.
A 1979 sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, was released later with an equally star-studded cast, but was a box office and critical failure.



Release Date: December 13 , 1972 @ the National & the BVeekman , Manhattan

Boxoffice: $84,563,118 2013 Equiv: $435,921,600

Awards: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - (Shelley Winters)
Academy Award for Best Production Design - (William J. Creber and Raphael Bretton)
Academy Award for Best Cinematography - (Harold E. Stine)
Academy Award for Best Costume Design - (Paul Zastupnevich)
Academy Award for Best Film Editing - (Harold F. Kress)
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score - (John Williams)
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing - (Theodore Soderberg and Herman Lewis)


Disaster movies are considered "Ark" movies, films that concentrate on a group of people confined to one set. THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE is indeed the perfect ARK film.


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