EARTHQUAKE
Filmschau THE AMERICAN DISASTER
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Teil der Special Reihe THE AMERICAN DISASTER
Terror in the waves! Welcome to "The Upside Down," seventies-style.
AIRPORT kicked off the genre, but it took buccaneering visionary Irwin Allen to kick things up to another level with THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE: not for nothing was the producer dubbed the "Master of Disaster." Clocking in under two hours, this is a lean and taut exercise in suspenseful, spectacular action — based on Paul Gallico's well-reviewed bestseller — that notched eight Oscar nominations (and two wins) while hitting the global box-office jackpot.
Newly-minted Academy Award recipient Gene Hackman dominates the screen as a decidedly unorthodox priest leading the bedraggled survivors to safety when their ancient ocean-liner goes belly-up during her final voyage.
Future AIRPLANE! legend Leslie Nielsen enjoys a refreshingly serious role as the doomed vessel's safety-conscious Captain — but the real scenestealer is dual Oscar-winner Shelley Winters, who gets to perform the most unlikely feat of heroic swimming in cinema history. You too will be left gasping...
The suspense is in the method of escape and the narrowing number of survivors: you watch as fate ticks them off in photogenically horrible ways — engulfing water, flames, scalding liquids, falling chandeliers.
