“The Poseidon Adventure” is an action thriller disaster movie, screenplay by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes from the Novel by Paul Gallico and Directed by Ronald Neame.
The story takes place aboard the SS Poseidon, an aged luxury liner on her final voyage from New York
City to Athens before being sent to the scrapyard.
However, the new owners pressurise Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) to
push the Poseidon to her limits to save on the dismantling fees at their
destination and as a result, on New Year's Eve, she is hit by a tidal wave
which completely capsized her, so that all the internal rooms are suddenly
upside down with the Passengers and crew trapped inside.
From the ensuing chaos a rebellious Priest Reverend Scott (Gene Hackman)
takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in
an attempt to survive.
The film won two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Motion
Picture Sound Editors Award, aided in no small way by a fine Ensemble cast including,
Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley,
Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell and Eric
Shea.
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