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The Poseidon Adventure Directed by. Ronald Neame. Awards & Festivals Show all (15) Academy Awards. 1973 | 2 wins including: Best Music, Original Song.
The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner , the S.S. Poseidon , due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90-foot (27-meter) wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks.
One of the most gripping disaster films of all time follows ten survivors as they struggle to escape from an ocean liner capsized by a tidal wave. Suspensefu...
- 3 min
- 260.3K
- 20th Century Studios
Purchase The Poseidon Adventure on digital and stream instantly or download offline. 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 ...
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American disaster film and a sequel to The Poseidon Adventure (1972) directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine and Sally Field. [3] [4] It was a critical and commercial failure. Its box office receipts were only 20% of its estimated $10 million budget.
The Poseidon Adventure features one of the highest of high concepts: an ocean liner capsizes, and a small band of survivors must make it topside by climbing through an upside down ship before it sinks. It is the perfect combination of character study and thriller, a “platoon story” mixed with a tick-tock countdown to eternity.
The movie is based on The Poseidon Adventure (1969), a novel by American writer Paul Gallico. The novel was adapted for the movie by American screenwriters Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes. A sequel Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) followed in 1979.
