True story: Years ago, my wife and I were channel surfing and decided on an old episode of The Love Boat. My better half went out of the room for a few minutes and I decided to check OTHER channels. Sure enough, the Poseidon Adventure was on and the ship hadn't flipped yet. I thought it was a better choice so left the movie on. It didn't occur to me that wifey wouldn't realize what I had done. When the wife came back, she commented that she didn't realize Shelly Winters, Ernest Borgnine and others were on the same episode. I quietly just agreed with her. When the rogue wave came and flipped the ship... she was LOSING IT.. not believing The Love Boat was sinking. It was minutes and minutes of horror and disbelief for her ( and tickling delight for me ) until she realized what had happened. Best T.V. night, ever.
I saw this movie when I was 12 in Oklahoma in 1972 by myself. Now I just watched it with Cassie. When Carol Lynley was told she had to go on without her brother and help those who are still alive, how was I to know that now, after losing my wife of 41 years to ALS Jan 28 of this year, that dialogue from this movie would break my heart and at the same time motivate me to keep going. Thank you Cassie. You are like a daughter to me.❤
I saw this at the drive-in when I was 10 years old in 1972. I am 61 so that was a long time ago. Also started the major disaster movie trend in Hollywood. Earthquake, Towering Inferno and Airport movies.
@@Swordsfor200Alex I also saw this movie in 1972, age 13. The theater was packed! It was an experience! People in the theater were laughing, crying, gasping, it really captured the entire emotions of all of us there. We ALL came out EXHAUSTED!!the red skirt with red hot pants under it that Sue wore, I had one very similar in blue, the skirt detached from the hot pants, and I would were boots like Noni was wearing and a fringe bag. Sooo 70’s. Kinda miss it…
His interplay and on-screen chemistry with both Hackman and Stevens in this movie is outstanding. He knows exactly what tone of voice he has to use and when.
Fun Fact: Shelley Winters really was a champion swimmer! Also, the '70s were the heyday of the disaster film. Big name casts, heavy doses of hammy acting. Amazing effects for the time. The most famous is "The Towering Inferno", which I highly recommend it for the channel. "Earthquake" and "Airport" franchise might also be good if you find yourself liking that.
One of the strengths of this versus more modern disaster movies is that this one (and the others from this period) takes the time for us to become familiar with the characters and invest in them so when bad things begin to happen you care what happens to them. Now the movies seem to just jump right into the action and you have no idea who the people populating the picture are so you never engage with them. It also helped that the producers hired actors with the skill to really make something of their roles. Also unlike CGI with the practical effects it added an extra dimension to the film and performances because you can sense the rigors helped the performers feel the dangers they are supposed to be in. It's another layer for the audience too. I remember seeing this in a packed theatre as a kid and the audience collectively gasping at certain points in the film and applauding at the end.
Prior to Airplane, Leslie Nielson was only a serious actor and nobody could imagine him doing comedy. The casting of him and other dramatic actors like Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges was one of the genius moves of Airplane. Role reversals to that degree had never been done in a movie before.
The '70s was the age of the disaster films. They covered all the bases...Earth (Earthquake), Air (Airport), Fire (The Towering Inferno), and Water (The Poseidon Adventure). The is one of the best with a cast, script, direction, and amazing set design. Thanks for this one.
Hi Cassie, I was 15 in 1972. Im 67 now, and yes, old. But I again Want to thank you for all the work you put into providing these movies. I truly appreciate it. Take care, Barry
Heh Barry you might know this. I’m 65. I know you must remember Ernest Borgnine from Mchales Navy’? There was also a movie Mchales Navy Joins The Airforce. It didn’t have Borgnine in it. Mainly Tim Conway and Joe Flynn. It’s so damn funny…anyway, I was asking do you have any idea where this movie could be watched or bought? I’ve looked for years. Any input would be great! TY
What sets this apart from other disaster movies is that it is a lot more than a human survival story. We actually care about these characters. Extremely well written screenplay, good effects, excellent direction, and an all star cast. The Shelley Winters swimming scene with Gene Hackman saying 'not this woman' gets me every time.😭
I believe it was one of, if not the first. It kicked off the disaster cycle. If you break it down it's a string of tropes, but they weren't established yet. Person in power who puts orders or money first. (Mayor from Jaws, also in Towering Inferno) Lots of immediately (for the time) recognizable faces set along side a few new ones the studio hoped were on the rise. Person with the power to stop them, but goes ahead with a really bad idea despite knowing better. Two bull characters who butt heads in trying to save others. In this case preacher and cop. Can also be scientist and military officer, engineer and rescue personnel or any two others that are used to being listened to without being challenged. Smart, cute kid/teen who somehow knows what to do. Also endangers others by acting independently. Usually accompanied by a sibling. Couple, usually older that can't be split up. Traumatized (usually woman) who needs to constantly be helped along despite risking everyone else. Often the sibling of the know-it-all. Woman/women who inexplicably wear the wrong outfit to the disaster. AKA, the eye candy. Rebel who secretly wants to belong, but has to do it on his own terms. Often one of the bulls trying to take charge. Survivor group meets other group, causes conflict and confusion. Only way out cut off until desperate attempt finds another. Self sacrifice at the end when rescue is within moments. Though Poseidon is told from the survivors point of view only. Some of the later also mirrored these characters types in both those trying to escape and for conflict within the rescuers. I'm not knocking the movie for this. It did them well and without a template at the time to work from.
@@christopherconard2831 the novel actually had a lot more to it. Some of the stuff that happens is cut from the movie and the ending where the 6 survivors realize everyone in the other group that went to the bow survived is great.
That line is pretty much the same in Pitch Black when the pilot dies trying to save Riddick. He even says, "Not for me". He didn't want anyone sacrificing their lives for him, the same as Hackman's character, especially due to his crisis of faith.
Haberdasher: 1) A dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods. 2) (US) A men's outfitter. 3) (British) A member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, a livery company.
Hackman is a true living legend. I live 30 seconds from where all the "home gym" scenes were shot for *Hoosiers.* Literally EVERY person Ive talked to said that he and Dennis Hopper were the kindest and most down-to-earth men alive. Ate at local diners nightly and never turned down a handshake, autograph, or conversation even after a 14+ hour day. Man has never been overly muscular or physically intimidating, but he demands respect in every role.
When this was on in the theaters many years ago, during the scene where they have to swim underwater to get to the next level, we held our breath along with the actors. Everybody did. When we left the theater everybody was out of breath.
And to deliberately break her "goody two shoes" (not my words) image as Nancy Drew, she then did a cover spread for *Playboy* magazine, before going on to play the character of "Fallon" on the big nighttime soap, *Dynasty.*
The SS Poseidon wasn't a cruise ship it was an ocean liner. Ocean liners are stronger, faster, have a deeper hull, and are used to transport people across the ocean. Cruise ships are more like floating hotels built for partying, make shorter trips, and visit different ports of call.
There's one currently operating, the Queen Mary 2. Unlike ocean liners of the past, which were primarily for transport, Queen Mary 2 is used for luxury world travel
@@izzonj That was part of the story. They were on the ship's last voyage, it was going to be scrapped because airplanes had taken over. There was a transition period over years where plane flights became more common and ship travel waned.
Watching her get emotional about the boat tipping over and people she doesn't know dying in the incident, thinking about what's going to happen when Hackman gets trapped and Shelly Winters saves him. That was one of the saddest moments in my memory from watching movies as a kid. Utter gut punch....
I get the same way with PiB. I like when Cassie stretches her movie boundaries in ways that she likes, but I get really on edge on her behalf for scenes like that. To me, she's such a good surrogate for when I was younger and catching these movies (often on TV) for the first time. It's only a movie, but the feels are real.
The girl playing Nonnie, the singer, I remember her from the TV movie “ The Nightstalker”. That and the sequel led to one of coolest TV shows ever “Kolchak: The Nightstalker”.
@@Anaj-us4eo It was before my time, but I remember watching it on Sci-fi channel in the early 90s as a teen. I had no idea about the 2 TV movies until I happen to find them on a DVD. Carl Kolchak will always be one of my favorite TV characters.
Carol Lynley. And TY for reminding me about "Kolchak". My parents used to have pizza night and we'd watch it. As I'm sure you know, the star was Darren McGavin, most famously known as Ralphie's dad in "A Christmas Story."
Carol Lynley is in an interesting film from the mid '60's called "Bunny Lake is Missing", also with Laurence Olivier and Keir Dullea. Worth searching out.
Cassie, until he did AIRPLANE, Leslie Nielsen was known for dramatic acting roles only. One of his first major roles was the classic, ground-breaking sci-fi space thriller, FORBIDDEN PLANET. See what they could do WITHOUT CGI!
I'm glad somebody said that. It's like how Star Trek III viewers can only see Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown nowadays. Both movies were made before those roles. (So Leslie Nielsen would not have been typecast yet as a comic actor)
Hey Cassie, what makes this such a stellar classic for me is the fact that all the characters are so diverse, engaging and grounded in real ppl. -------- In addition the writers were not afraid to kill off even our most beloved characters at the most unexpected times. Great reaction.
The film followed the novel pretty close. The deaths in the film follow the order in which they happened in the book, with the exception of Mrs. Rosen. And of course Robin, who dies off screen.
If you want another 'serious' film starring Leslie Nielsen, check out Forbidden Planet. It's a late 1950's science fiction story which heavily, if not entirely' influenced Gene Roddenberry to come up with Star Trek. It has different officers wearing colored uniforms, visiting an unknown planet to check on life forms, the time in Forbidden Planet they come out of hyperspace is 17:01 (which is the Enterprise's ship number of course), the concept of transporters in ST and so much more. Forbidden Planet is probably most famous for Robbie the Robot, the 'evil' character's "personal assistant", it's a big black robot that most people would recognize but may not know it's from that movie.
This is the Quadruplex of disaster films: Airport (1970) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Earthquake (1974) The Towering Inferno (1974) Big name stars but the big action was mostly done in studio sound stages or back the back lots.
There was a blockbuster remake of this in 2006 starring Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss. I first saw it as a kid and I enjoyed it. But a few years ago, I watched this movie for the first time and realized the remake doesn't come anywhere near the quality of this film.
Happy you brought up the remake, believe it or not that was my first introduction to the original Poseidon Adventure, after I watched the 2006 remake film countless times.
The remake was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the guy who directed Das Boot. It's not bad, but I think the acting is better in the original, no offense to Kurt Russell.
When I saw this as a kid, I thought it was the best movie I had ever seen. The theme song, "The morning after," was sung by Maureen McGovern and won the Academy Award for best song.
This movie came out at the end of 1972, my family went on a cruise through the Greek Islands in the summer of 1973 (I was 12). This movie is going from NY to Greece, so it was in a similar area. I wasn't afraid or anything, in fact, I realized that this showed me exactly what to do in case our ship tipped over. Anyway, this movie has always been one of my favorites. CGI was definitely not around at this time, so everything was done practically, with either the actors or stunt performers. And, you're right, it does still stand the test of time.
Gene Hackman is one of only 3 living people from the cast (the actors playing the young siblings being the others). He is 94 years old now (he retired from acting 20 years ago).
@@BennySax For me I think it was Hoosiers. I was probably just getting into high school. Then I started renting movies that had him and really loved Poseiden. Shelley Winters to me stole the show though, She is such a great actress.
@@BennySax Funnily enough my introduction to him was SUPERMAN 1978 followed by ENEMY OF THE STATE and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE rapidly after. I have watched more of his work since.
It may not be apparent to modern viewers, but the cast was absolutely stacked. Five of them were previous Oscar winners (and Shelley Winters was nominated for another Oscar - and won a Golden Globe - for portraying Mrs. Rosen).
Cassie, I say again , I love you, I'm 61 years young, and grew up with all these iconic actors, I love seeing you react to these Ole films that are the foundation of my earlier years, yore a gift to all of us who share time with you and Carly ❤
Seeing this reaction made my week. I saw this movie on a VHS tape in the early 90s when I was 6 years old and became obsessed with it to the point I would watch it every day. It'll forever be one of my all time favorites, and no disaster film has come close to this one for me. Particularly when it comes to the characters. In such a short time, they get you to feel so deeply about them all; whether that feeling is love or hate or annoyance. You get who these characters are and they feel like real people each with their own little idiosyncrasies. That's down to the incredible acting and how well each actor embodied their role. I loved seeing you connect so much with the characters and how invested you were. This movie really stands the test of time.
This is how disaster movies used to be done. Engaging relatable characters, never knowing for sure who was going to die - lacking the standard plot armour for the protagonist that is a trope of cinema today. I've said it before (and I think it was on a reaction to this film actually), they didn't used to treat their audience like children by having someone whom you thought had died suddenly reappear at the end. P.S. I love how you said, 'They Coen Brothered me.' After I said, in the livechat, it was about as true as Fargo and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I saw this when I was a young kid, and the only part I remembered clearly was the death of Mrs Rosen, played by the wonderful Shelley Winters. It seemed so sad, that it stayed with me for years.
That's a really good point. It's interesting to see how our perspective develops, and we see ourselves reflected in different characters based on what stage we are in life.
CGI didn't really hit it's stride until the late 1990's. Most all of the "effects" in "The Poseidon Adventure" were done for real in front of the camera. That makes it even MORE impressive. The song "There's Got To Be A Morning After" became a hit on the radio in the 70's. Great cast, very memorable characters.
The old filming techniques are being lost to time. Some very clever people did the special effects back then, using illusions from mirrors and perspective tricks. Cgi has its place but nothing compares with real footage. Check out Napoleon 1970. The battle scenes with 10s of thousands of real soldiers just beats everything. Not practical but great
@@martinsv9183 when you watch the first Terminator the cgi is awful compared to the 2nd. I watched the 1st not long ago, and the bit near the end which was meant to be scary actually was making me laugh. Took me out of the moment. But it was the best they could do at the time. And back then it was good.
@@Anaj-us4eo As I recall, she was cast as the singer in Irwin Allen's next "disaster " film- singing "We May Never Love Like This Again" - which also became a hit on radio playlists. She may have also sung the intro for the TV series "Angie"
This story is completely fictional, despite the opening lines. Gene Hackman is in "Enemy of the State" which is quite good, if you haven't seen it. (For those who haven't seen it in a while, it's free with ads on YT movies right now.)
Love your reaction:) Poesideon is played by RMS Queen Mary, one of the greatest liners ever built. She twice won the blue ribbon for fastest liner in the world (4 day crossing the Atlantic), and in WWII brought half a million troops over for D Day (Hitler put a $250000 bounty on her but she was never caught by U boat- though she almost capsized when hit by a rogue wave, which helped inspire the idea for the Poesideon adventure). She served 31 years, shortly before retiring starred in the Sinatra movie Assault on a Queen. For over fifty years she's been a floating hotel on Long Beach.
Is inspired real events: The Queen Mary: In 1942, the British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary was hit by a 90-foot rogue wave and nearly capsized. The ship tipped 52 degrees and would have capsized if it had rolled three degrees more. Paul Gallico, the author of the novel that The Poseidon Adventure is based on, was inspired by this incident after taking a trip on the Queen Mary in 1937.
A capsize similar to that in the movie happened in 1993 of the coast of Germany by a ship named MS Jan Heweliusz. The ship is still there in shallow waters in Scuba diving depth, actually pretty close to the Gaz prom pipeline (about 10km). 9 passangers was rescued, but not throw the hull as in the movie. That did happen in 2004 with the ship. MV Rocknes that while was a cargo ship had a cew of 30. 12 was rescued throw a hole in the hull.
Shelly Winters was unique - but she also had a taste for underage boys. When she was announced to be a guest in the 1960's BATMAN TV Show everyone on the lot warned 21 year old Burt Ward who played Robin that he was going to be fresh prey for her - she made her move right away, leaving a book on sexually pleasuring older women in his Trailer when he was out doing a scene.
@@rhwinner Shelley had just lost about 30+ pounds before she was auditioned for the role. She was dishearted when she was told that she was too thin, and would need to regain that weight to be cast as Mrs. Rosen.
The Towering Inferno was made 2 years after this one and is another of the great classics of disaster movies, in that one the tallest building in the world burns down on opening day, put that one on the list of next reactions too, great performances by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
Lots of tension in that movie, behind the scenes. I don't remember which, but McQueen or Newman was signed after the other. He demanded the same number of lines as the other, so they had to do a big rewrite for dialog.
@@Thane36425 I think McQueen was offered the role of the architect of the building at first, but he didn't like the character, he preferred the fire chief, because it was more entertaining and more heroic, then Paul Newman was offered the role of the architect. This was the first time that 2 big studios joined resources to produce a movie, like Fox and Warner, both studios had similar scripts that were going to be filmed almost simultaneously, and before producing rival movies that could make them fail one or the other in the competition, they preferred to join resources and produce a big millionaire movie, merging both scripts to make sure it would be a great success.
Many of these actors became passengers of The Love Boat. And the actor who falls backward into the lights was used at the beginning of The Fall Guy, with Lee Majors. A stunt man series.
I have serious reservations about recommending *The Towering Inferno* for Popcorn In Bed. If *The Poseidon Adventure* put Miss Cassie through the wringer, *Inferno* will almost certainly up the intensity level at least threefold, and I'm not sure I'd want that for her anytime soon. But then, I'm rather a softie. 😕
It’s not a true story. It’s not a cruise ship; it’s an ocean liner. Ocean liners are made to drive fast across the ocean. They didn’t have water slides.
@@SJHFoto The book's author, Paul Gallico on a crossing in 1967 and heavy seas caused major scares. In 1943, the Queen Mary (used as the Poseidon in the movie) was hit by a rogue wave of 70-80 feet off Ireland. It was carrying 10,000 troops and keeled over to 53 degrees. Engineers later calculated two more degrees would have capsized her.
And it's not the USS Poseidon. SS in this context stands for Screw Steamer to show it is steam powered (using fuel to raise steam in boilers to generate pressure) and driven by screw propellers not, for example, paddles (which would be a PS). The huge slab sided floating casino hotels that are today's cruise ships have very little in common with the classic traditional ocean liners. So far as I am aware the only true ocean liners still operating is the Queen Mary 2. The original Queen Mary is now preserved at Long Beach California.
Something simular happen to the ship MS Jan Heweliusz in 1993 of the coast of Germany in a that capsized in 180km/h winds. The ship was a bit smaller than the fictional SS Poseidon, but still pretty sizable. The ship is in shallow water so it can easily be dived to with free drivers. Its actually just a few km from the Nordstreem pipeline. (while about a 100km from where the explosion took place). 9 people saved, 55 died. MS Jan Heweliusz was in a string of pretty bad accidents on ferry that was going to and from Sweden. In 1990 Scandinavian stars (Copenhagen-Helsingborg-Oslo), 1993 Jan Heweliusz (Świnoujście-Ystad), and 1994 Estonia (Tallinn-Stockholm). After that safety regulations was change quite significantly. Now there was no people rescued throw the hull of Heweliusz, but that did happen later in Norway for a ship named MS Rocknes. The disaster happened very close to land and there is videos of it both Capsizing as well as the rescue. ruclips.net/video/QYvFEVOQu1Y/видео.html This was a cargo ship so its kind of not really similar to that of the movie
Cassie, I knew this movie would hit you like a ton of bricks. ----- Especially when you got to meet Mrs. Rosen and hear the love she has for her grandkids. -------- When her death occurs after she saves Gene Hackman, it really cuts deep.
'Towering Inferno' movie (with Steve Mcqueen) and this movie were on TV constantly during holidays such as Christmas, you could almost bank on it. It was an era of disaster movies, much like when the 90s went through a spell where disaster movies were the 'in thing'.
This movie is like an old friend. How many Sunday afternoons were spent watching this when I should have been doing something productive 😁 I always forget how thick the symbolism is in that final sequence. Pretty heavy stuff. Hackman is so good. So HUMAN. What a pleasant surprise this was!
Cassie, the actor who portrayed Lt. Mike Rogo was Ernest Borgnine, an Oscar-winning and multiple Emmy Award-nominated actor. He also voice "Mermaid Man" on SpongeBob SquarePants.
She probably knows him from Escape From New York. I know him from all his versatile roles over the years. “Marty” is a nice little film of his from long ago.
Ernest Borgnine played the loudmouthed villain in this film but you need to check him out his charming Oscar-winning performance in "Marty" (1955), as a sad-sack 35-year-old looking for love. I guarantee you'll adore this small lovely film, one of the best of the '50s.
I have always loved "The Poseidon Adventure" for as long as I could remember as I used watch on my old VHS copy, this film was one of the greatest disaster films in history and certainly is better than 'Titanic' in my opinion.
The first of the Irwin Allen "disaster flicks," All scored by John Williams, BTW. THE TOWERING INFERNO (highly recommended), EARTHQUAKE, and THE SWARM being some of the follow ups as well as BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, which is a "parallelequal." It takes place at the exact same time as the first movie but on another ship turned over by the same title wave.
I didn't know about Beyond! I must watch that. My favorite of his films is Towering Inferno. My mom and I watched it together a few years ago. Still holds up!!
Actually, Beyond Posiedon IS set in the same boat. The story continues only a few hours after the first movie ends. Michael Caine plays a salvager who discovers the still capsized ship and takes his crew on board in order to claim salvage rights. There are still a handful of other random survivors inside the boat (eg Shirley Jones, Mark Hamil, Angela Cartwright etc) who join them in hopes of rescue. Telly Savalas is also in the mix as a baddie who complicates the group's escape.
The Poseidon Adventure (produced by Irwin Allen) was the first major motion picture composition from the legendary cinematic composer, John Williams. Williams had previously worked in television on other Irwin Allen productions such as Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants, as well as smaller film productions such as Valley of the Dolls, and also composed an adaptation of Jerry Brock's theatrical score for the musical Fiddler on the Roof, which earned him an Oscar for Best Adaptation and Original Song Score. After The Poseidon Adventure (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), John Williams would compose the music for films like The Towering Inferno (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), Earthquake, Jaws (Oscar winner, Best Original Score), Star Wars (Oscar winner, Best Original Score), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), Superman (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), The Empire Strikes Back (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Oscar winner, Best Original Score), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Witches of Eastwick, The Accidental Tourist, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Born on the Fourth of July, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Lincoln, the first three Harry Potter movies, and the Star War prequel and sequel trilogies.
At such a young age this film is what started my being aware of film scores. I love the music. We had to wait for decades for a soundtrack release but it finally did come.
@@bobrunnicles4618 I used to test our community theater sound system with the Superman theme going full blast and anyone who happened to be working in the theater at the time would run down the aisles and leap in the air, whether they were "comic book movie" people or not. So thrilling! I also like RUclips videos of live performances of Williams' themes, whether performed by the Maestro himself, or, almost even better, smaller civic orchestras who know what side their breads' buttered on.
The Captain did try to do something. Ships are designed basically to cut through waves, so if the bow had been turned fully into the wave they probably would have had a good chance. The ship would have been damaged but probably would not have rolled or sunk. Getting hit on the side was the worst. At the end, that valve wheel wasn't just wet, it was being blasted by steam so it would have been very hot as well as wet.
Actually they try to hit the wave at a slight angle so the keel is not exposed for a great length. If the keel is exposed for a certain length the weight of the ballast could break it.
You have to watch The Towering Inferno. That was the film that made me fall in love with movies - and I thought Steve McQueen was just so cool (I was 6).
Irwin Allen was famous for 1970s disaster movies and one of the key concepts was that they always had a large cast of a-list actors and you NEVER knew who would die; all you knew was a lot of them were going to die. 1970s disaster movies were incredibly fun but there could always be tears around the corner as one of your favorite movie stars bit the dust. Towering Inferno, Earthquake, all the Airport movies (which were the movies Airplane! was parodying) very cool movies you might want to consider checking out. Love your reaction as always. :)
Wow, Eric Shea, Pamela Sue Martin and Gene Hackman are the only members of the original cast that are still alive now.. Stella Stevens just passed last year
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. Mrs Rosen spends the whole movie tugging at your heartstrings, from when we first see her knitting on deck & looking forward to seeing her grandson, to the very end when she absolutely devastates us all. Such a great cast in this one, too. I know the names probably mean almost nothing to you younger folks, but us oldtimers know Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Gene Hackman (you might remember him as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein), Roddy McDowell, Jack Albertson, Earnest Borgnine, Stella Stevens; really just a spectacular group of actors. (And in a bit of irony - near the beginning of your video, just before the Captain gets the message about the underwater earthquake, we actually had a small quake here. Nothing major, just enough to upset the dogs, but still the timing was excellent.)
This movie featured an insane number of Oscar Winners: Gene Hackman (Edit: The French Connection, Unforgiven) Ernest Borgnine (Marty) Shelly Winters (A Patch of Blue; The Diary of Anne Frank) Red Buttons (Sayonara) Jack Albertson ( The Subject was Roses) John Williams -(5 wins for best score) Harold Kress (2 wins for editing) AD Flowers - special effects for The Posiden Adventure! Maybe I'm missing some. Plus many others have won Golden Globes or other awards.
One of the key films of my childhood- still a fantastic viewing experience. Mad Magazine did a great parody of this as well- "The Poopsidedown Adventure."
@@kenrfcMy aunt took me to see The Towering Inferno when I was seven, and it scared the living bejesus out of me. To this day, I can’t bring myself to watch it again; and, to this day, my worst nightmare is dying in a fire.
@@kenrfc I came out of the theater after watching The Towering Inferno completely EXHAUSTED, just like Posiden, just thrashed. Back then there was no guarantee the hero, or your fav character/actor would survive. The emotional roller coaster these movies took you on was intense. I kind of miss that… now it’s all about how many sequels can they get.
40:00 they may be characters, but they definitely portrayed a more believable(as we are not perfect) reaction to disaster than the glossier, modern heroes of our movies today.
The 1970's was known for a lot of disaster movies, "AIRPORT", "EARTHQUAKE", "AIRPORT 1975", "THE TOWERING INFERNO" and a few more all good movies you should react to.
I saw this movie as a kid. Now I see a lot more as an adult that I couldn't grasp. The actors were awesome and the story line was deep. There is a reason this movie has lasted this long as a popular film.
Shelly Winters had a career of like 50 years; 2 Oscars, a few Oscar nominations. I believe she got an Oscar for this movie. What's The Matter With Helen, The Diary of Anne Frank are other great movies she starred in.
Shelly Winters won her second Best Supporting Actress award for A Patch Of Blue . Her first win was for The Autobiography Of Anne Frank directed by her favorite director, George Stevens. Stevens changed the way Hollywood viewed her by casting her as the doomed love interest of Montgomery Clift in, A Place In The Sun. Before she was just another glamour girl but after a serious actress. Her last nomination was for Last Stop Greenwich Village. She said in some interviews that she believed her role in Night Of The Hunter was her most overlooked performance and she had the most fun in Alfie.
Also, not sure anyone has mentioned that Ernest Borgnine (Mike Rogo in the movie, aka THIS GUY 18:17) is the voice of Mermaid Man from SpongeBob. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVILLLL
The story the movie is based on was an incident aboard the liner Queen Mary when she was serving as a troopship during World War 2. She had 10,000 US troops onboard when she was hit by a rogue wave. She was laid over on her side and then hung onto that crazy angle that it very nearly turned her over. She finally returned upright and sailed on her way, but it was a very close thing. Some have said that had she gone over 5 feet or more she would never have recovered. This incident gave author Paul Gallico the idea for writing "The Poseidon Adventure".
The Irwin Allen disaster movies with star-studded casts were great entertainment in the 70's. Another great movie is "The Towering Inferno". I hope you'll watch more of them!
Mrs Rosen's death, and Gene Hackman's words STILL make me cry and I first watched this film when it was released! Yes, the dialogue and a few other things (the dancing, LOL!!) are quite dated, but my goodness this movie still holds your attention and gets you in the feels! Always love your reactions Cassie, thank you!
17:30 -- RE: Why trust the Purser?; A: Is also a Petty Officer usually, and probably the last officer left alive at this moment in time. Even though this isn't a military vessel, it is still following a chain of command in terms of the operation of the ship itself and also in terms of the fleet taking orders from the company that operates it.
17:31 a purser on a steam ship (ss) cruise liner(not a cruse ship) generally will handle all of your valuable items and cash. The doors on old ships your cabin/rooms did not lock. So if you were worried about your expensive jewelry or money you would turn it in to the purser at the pursers office and they would put it in one of the ships safes. If you should want to retrieve your jewelry say for a new years party then you simply went back and asked for your things. Also if you stored money you could have your drinks 🍸 special food or cigars and such put on a running tab that would be sent back to the pursers office to be settled up before the end of your stay. The purser was often the one you would see to rent a specific deck chair get your table for dinner 🍽 on its seating. Now with this being set in the 50's and not the 20's not sure how much the purser still did but historically this was their role.
The Poseidon Adventure was based on the novel by Paul Gallico, inspired by a real-life incident when Gallico was traveling on the RMS Queen Mary, and the ship had been hit by a series of large waves. The ship actually listed to the side to the point where plates and furniture were thrown around, and he could actually see the ocean close to his window. The ballast tanks in the Queen Mary allowed the ship to right itself, as it was designed to do, but the experience gave Gallico the idea for The Poseidon Adventure.
Thank you so much for reacting to this. I’m 62 now, but when this movie came out, I was a teenager and had such a crush on Gene Hackman in this. Our family was financially OK, but by no means had a lot of money, and I remember mom let me go see this at the movies four times and then another two times at the drive-in. What a great woman she was, and I miss her. Dad was good too, but I’m sure she didn’t tell him how many times she let me go see it. He would’ve… let’s say… not been happy, ha ha. I loved it so much I remember cutting the advertisement out of the newspaper and putting it in my diary, writing I get to see it again!! Sixth time!! Thanks again, this brought back good memories.❤️❤️❤️
30:41 Mark! "Capsized"! As in rolled over from from top side to bottom side. "Flipped"?! Now that's a funny visual! Flipping end over end like an Olympic gymnast! 😂 Lord Zeus: "Brother, why are you on the competition floor?" Lord Poseidon: "I feel the need to flip! Watch me!" 😅😂
Shelley Winters was one of great actors from the late 40’s ,50’s and 60’s(Mrs. Rosen) .She was very beautiful when she was younger and if I recall you have watched Winchester 73 in which she was the lead actress along with jimmy Stewart ❤
Was just looking at photos from every five years of Gene Hackman's life. He was the cutest child ever. Then at 20 he turned 38 for some reason. Lol. Saw the most recent photo of him and you can't even tell it's him anymore. Aging is a trip. Great career though...some really great roles.
@@fredfredburger5150 He's 94. We don't all get to age like Christopher Plummer. If I'm still alive at 94 I'll probably look like something from a horror movie.
5:55 Mark! Cassie, "olden days"?! 😮 It is set when it came out! 😮 By the way, that is a "ship" not a "boat" no matter how many people mistakenly call it a "boat"! 😮 This movie has a sequel known as "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" with Shirley Jones from "The Partridge Family" and "Tank" in it! There are also two rival remakes that came out in the same year, if not month! One in movie theaters and one for cablevision in some places and television in others! The singer known as "Fergie" is in one of them playing the singer! Both versions, now they take place on cruise ships! ⚓️
I was reading an article recently and then saw it was from 2003 and thought "oh this is ancient, why am I reading this" and looked for something more recent on the subject. But all the information in that article was correct. It's not like we didn't know anything in 2003.
True story: Years ago, my wife and I were channel surfing and decided on an old episode of The Love Boat. My better half went out of the room for a few minutes and I decided to check OTHER channels. Sure enough, the Poseidon Adventure was on and the ship hadn't flipped yet. I thought it was a better choice so left the movie on. It didn't occur to me that wifey wouldn't realize what I had done. When the wife came back, she commented that she didn't realize Shelly Winters, Ernest Borgnine and others were on the same episode. I quietly just agreed with her. When the rogue wave came and flipped the ship... she was LOSING IT.. not believing The Love Boat was sinking. It was minutes and minutes of horror and disbelief for her ( and tickling delight for me ) until she realized what had happened. Best T.V. night, ever.
That’s hilarious!
How was the lack of Captain Stubing not a dead giveaway?
I like the cut of your jib!
Hahaha!!! Thanks for sharing, that sounds like something I would do!
This is honestly why we get married 😅
I saw this movie when I was 12 in Oklahoma in 1972 by myself. Now I just watched it with Cassie. When Carol Lynley was told she had to go on without her brother and help those who are still alive, how was I to know that now, after losing my wife of 41 years to ALS Jan 28 of this year, that dialogue from this movie would break my heart and at the same time motivate me to keep going. Thank you Cassie. You are like a daughter to me.❤
That's poignant.
"It's hard to take him seriously Leslie Nielson." Well.he is serious and don't call him Shirley!
He was known as a serious actor until Airplane!.
@@digitalranger4259 Yes he did a few leading man roles - notably in Forbidden Planet - but also did a fair range of sleazy characters too.
Loved him in "Forbidden Planet".
That scene with the kid visiting the Captain sure seems to pop up in _Airplane!_
@joekerr7975 Roger, but your comment is a bit Oveur Dunn.
Mrs. Rosen's death absolutely wrecked me when I was a kid...
same, partly because she looked and reminded me of my grandmother
It hits me harder now that I've lost my parents.
Me too. She was such a sweet character. They gave her such a hero moment, and she went out like a superhero!
Same..as a matter of fact, it still does! She looked and acts just like my mom😢
Still wrecks me to this day.
“This is in the olden days…” (3:36) Oh Cassie, you really know how to make a 50-year old guy feel absolutely ancient. 😂👴🏼
What makes me feel even older is that's exactly what I called movies from 1922 back when THIS movie came out.
I saw this at the drive-in when I was 10 years old in 1972. I am 61 so that was a long time ago. Also started the major disaster movie trend in Hollywood. Earthquake, Towering Inferno and Airport movies.
Yes. And I didn't need to Google "Haberdasher" to know what it is. I guess I'm Old.
I'm 72. You kids are funny. 😊
@@Swordsfor200Alex I also saw this movie in 1972, age 13. The theater was packed! It was an experience! People in the theater were laughing, crying, gasping, it really captured the entire emotions of all of us there. We ALL came out EXHAUSTED!!the red skirt with red hot pants under it that Sue wore, I had one very similar in blue, the skirt detached from the hot pants, and I would were boots like Noni was wearing and a fringe bag. Sooo 70’s. Kinda miss it…
There’s more HEART in this movie than in anything Hollywood has produced in the last twenty years. GREAT movies never age.
Totally agree Hollywood SUCKS today! The last great film was "Shawshank Redemption" from 1994.
Ernest Borgnine had a knack for playing roles that showed off his ability to explode in anger.
His interplay and on-screen chemistry with both Hackman and Stevens in this movie is outstanding. He knows exactly what tone of voice he has to use and when.
Make sure to check out "The Towering Inferno" (1974) as well!
Also Earthquake and Airport 75. The 70s was chuck full of great disaster movies.
Fun Fact: Shelley Winters really was a champion swimmer!
Also, the '70s were the heyday of the disaster film. Big name casts, heavy doses of hammy acting. Amazing effects for the time. The most famous is "The Towering Inferno", which I highly recommend it for the channel. "Earthquake" and "Airport" franchise might also be good if you find yourself liking that.
I believe Winters also gained like 60 lbs for this movie and was never able to lose it.
The funniest thing to me is what killed the disaster movie genre - Airplane. As soon as that came out, nobody could take it seriously ever again 😆
Towering Inferno has a huge star studded cast
Yes Airport is a great one to watch good suggestion.
AIRPORT was the one that started it all.
One of the strengths of this versus more modern disaster movies is that this one (and the others from this period) takes the time for us to become familiar with the characters and invest in them so when bad things begin to happen you care what happens to them. Now the movies seem to just jump right into the action and you have no idea who the people populating the picture are so you never engage with them. It also helped that the producers hired actors with the skill to really make something of their roles.
Also unlike CGI with the practical effects it added an extra dimension to the film and performances because you can sense the rigors helped the performers feel the dangers they are supposed to be in. It's another layer for the audience too. I remember seeing this in a packed theatre as a kid and the audience collectively gasping at certain points in the film and applauding at the end.
Prior to Airplane, Leslie Nielson was only a serious actor and nobody could imagine him doing comedy. The casting of him and other dramatic actors like Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges was one of the genius moves of Airplane. Role reversals to that degree had never been done in a movie before.
He actually had a comedic role the same year he did this movie. He guest starred on a 1972 episode of MASH
Exactly. That's 90% of the joke. Don't forget Peter Graves ;)
That M A S H episode was a serious episode tho,he was getting is soldiers killed through incompetence.
@@athenasatanjesus ...Yes, but his role was comedic. They got him out of action in funny ways
I love watching these old movies. Most of the actors and actress have passed, but its nice to see them in action and remembering their names.
The '70s was the age of the disaster films. They covered all the bases...Earth (Earthquake), Air (Airport), Fire (The Towering Inferno), and Water (The Poseidon Adventure). The is one of the best with a cast, script, direction, and amazing set design. Thanks for this one.
Definitely the best of them
Don't forget snow (Avalanche). Although I guess that's a combo of water and earth.
and outer space... Meteor, starring Sean Conney
I loved to watch this when I was a kid so.e beautiful movies that came out of the late 60s
The High and the Mighty too, with John Wayne, Robert Stack and an ensemble cast
Hi Cassie, I was 15 in 1972. Im 67 now, and yes, old. But I again Want to thank you for all the work you put into providing these movies. I truly appreciate it. Take care, Barry
Heh Barry you might know this. I’m 65. I know you must remember Ernest Borgnine from Mchales Navy’? There was also a movie Mchales Navy Joins The Airforce. It didn’t have Borgnine in it. Mainly Tim Conway and Joe Flynn. It’s so damn funny…anyway, I was asking do you have any idea where this movie could be watched or bought? I’ve looked for years. Any input would be great! TY
What sets this apart from other disaster movies is that it is a lot more than a human survival story. We actually care about these characters. Extremely well written screenplay, good effects, excellent direction, and an all star cast. The Shelley Winters swimming scene with Gene Hackman saying 'not this woman' gets me every time.😭
The novel the movie is based on is even better than the movie.
Shelley Winters dying traumatised me as a child.
I believe it was one of, if not the first. It kicked off the disaster cycle.
If you break it down it's a string of tropes, but they weren't established yet.
Person in power who puts orders or money first. (Mayor from Jaws, also in Towering Inferno)
Lots of immediately (for the time) recognizable faces set along side a few new ones the studio hoped were on the rise.
Person with the power to stop them, but goes ahead with a really bad idea despite knowing better.
Two bull characters who butt heads in trying to save others. In this case preacher and cop. Can also be scientist and military officer, engineer and rescue personnel or any two others that are used to being listened to without being challenged.
Smart, cute kid/teen who somehow knows what to do. Also endangers others by acting independently. Usually accompanied by a sibling.
Couple, usually older that can't be split up.
Traumatized (usually woman) who needs to constantly be helped along despite risking everyone else. Often the sibling of the know-it-all.
Woman/women who inexplicably wear the wrong outfit to the disaster. AKA, the eye candy.
Rebel who secretly wants to belong, but has to do it on his own terms. Often one of the bulls trying to take charge.
Survivor group meets other group, causes conflict and confusion.
Only way out cut off until desperate attempt finds another.
Self sacrifice at the end when rescue is within moments.
Though Poseidon is told from the survivors point of view only. Some of the later also mirrored these characters types in both those trying to escape and for conflict within the rescuers.
I'm not knocking the movie for this. It did them well and without a template at the time to work from.
@@christopherconard2831 the novel actually had a lot more to it. Some of the stuff that happens is cut from the movie and the ending where the 6 survivors realize everyone in the other group that went to the bow survived is great.
That line is pretty much the same in Pitch Black when the pilot dies trying to save Riddick. He even says, "Not for me". He didn't want anyone sacrificing their lives for him, the same as Hackman's character, especially due to his crisis of faith.
Haberdasher: 1) A dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods.
2) (US) A men's outfitter.
3) (British) A member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, a livery company.
And actor playing the habedasher was named Red Buttons. Loved him in Pete's Dragon.
"It's called The Poseidon Adventure. I thought it would be fun." Hilarious. 😂
Mad Magazine did a spoof back then and called it "The PoopsideDown" Adventure."
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A three hour tour....
"Honey, you got a big storm coming...."
In the novel, I believe it was Mr. Martin who referred to their ordeal as an adventure.
Shelly Winters really was a swimming champion in her younger days. She always seemed as buetiful in spirit, young or in her older years.
That's what I love about this girl Popcorn she'll watch anything. Every film is a discovery to her. A true movie lover. 👍
That's what us viewers gave us Cassie.
I grew up in the 70's. This movie and Towering Inferno are two of my favorite disaster movies!
Hackman is a true living legend. I live 30 seconds from where all the "home gym" scenes were shot for *Hoosiers.* Literally EVERY person Ive talked to said that he and Dennis Hopper were the kindest and most down-to-earth men alive. Ate at local diners nightly and never turned down a handshake, autograph, or conversation even after a 14+ hour day. Man has never been overly muscular or physically intimidating, but he demands respect in every role.
"Uncommon Valor" is one of my favorite Hackman movies.
Dennis Hopper - down to earth !? 😉 Just kidding - would have been great to see them hanging out there
His turn as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection was legendary.
@@drg3712 Dennis Hopped-up..... hophead.... Hopper.... fine actor..... 🤣🤣🤣
I was an extra in Hoosiers. Can confirm.
When this was on in the theaters many years ago, during the scene where they have to swim underwater to get to the next level, we held our breath along with the actors. Everybody did. When we left the theater everybody was out of breath.
Caught ya deep breathing.
The girl in the red shorts was Pamela Sue Martin who a few years after this would become famous as television detective Nancy Drew!
And to deliberately break her "goody two shoes" (not my words) image as Nancy Drew, she then did a cover spread for *Playboy* magazine, before going on to play the character of "Fallon" on the big nighttime soap, *Dynasty.*
Yeah, this movie is what introduced me to Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys show. I love that show❤
And don't forget her as Fallon Carrington on Dynasty.
Curious yiu picked her when the movie featured 4 Oscar winners...and Roddy won a Tony.
@@alyxgriffen5073Stella Stevens was a Playmate.
I remember seeing this movie in 1972 at a Drive in Movie Theater… I miss drive in theaters 😢
The SS Poseidon wasn't a cruise ship it was an ocean liner. Ocean liners are stronger, faster, have a deeper hull, and are used to transport people across the ocean. Cruise ships are more like floating hotels built for partying, make shorter trips, and visit different ports of call.
And if she was properly ballasted, she might not have capsized.
Ate there even ocean liners anymore?
There's one currently operating, the Queen Mary 2. Unlike ocean liners of the past, which were primarily for transport, Queen Mary 2 is used for luxury world travel
Good to know.
@@izzonj That was part of the story. They were on the ship's last voyage, it was going to be scrapped because airplanes had taken over. There was a transition period over years where plane flights became more common and ship travel waned.
" Can you stop picking fights, we're in a crisis "...lol. Cassie is the best!
Watching her get emotional about the boat tipping over and people she doesn't know dying in the incident, thinking about what's going to happen when Hackman gets trapped and Shelly Winters saves him. That was one of the saddest moments in my memory from watching movies as a kid. Utter gut punch....
The bit where Hackmans character sacrifices himself to save the others gets me everytime. What a true hero.
I get the same way with PiB. I like when Cassie stretches her movie boundaries in ways that she likes, but I get really on edge on her behalf for scenes like that. To me, she's such a good surrogate for when I was younger and catching these movies (often on TV) for the first time. It's only a movie, but the feels are real.
Now films are just criminals shooting each other.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Or superheroes doing cartoony stuff.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver ..and an overdose of special effects and filthy language.
The girl playing Nonnie, the singer, I remember her from the TV movie “ The Nightstalker”. That and the sequel led to one of coolest TV shows ever “Kolchak: The Nightstalker”.
I just had the BIGGEST memory surge reading that! I used to live for that show! TY for commenting about that.
@@Anaj-us4eo It was before my time, but I remember watching it on Sci-fi channel in the early 90s as a teen. I had no idea about the 2 TV movies until I happen to find them on a DVD. Carl Kolchak will always be one of my favorite TV characters.
Carol Lynley. And TY for reminding me about "Kolchak". My parents used to have pizza night and we'd watch it. As I'm sure you know, the star was Darren McGavin, most famously known as Ralphie's dad in "A Christmas Story."
Carol Lynley is in an interesting film from the mid '60's called "Bunny Lake is Missing", also with Laurence Olivier and Keir Dullea. Worth searching out.
Cassie, until he did AIRPLANE, Leslie Nielsen was known for dramatic acting roles only. One of his first major roles was the classic, ground-breaking sci-fi space thriller, FORBIDDEN PLANET. See what they could do WITHOUT CGI!
I loved him in "Creepshow".
I'm glad somebody said that. It's like how Star Trek III viewers can only see Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown nowadays. Both movies were made before those roles. (So Leslie Nielsen would not have been typecast yet as a comic actor)
One of my favorite movies, it's Shakespeare's The Tempest in space.
Forbidden Planet should be on Cassie's list. It's incredible.
When I saw him in Star Trek, I thought of him as that guy from Taxi , Jim.
Hey Cassie, what makes this such a stellar classic for me is the fact that all the characters are so diverse, engaging and grounded in real ppl. -------- In addition the writers were not afraid to kill off even our most beloved characters at the most unexpected times. Great reaction.
The film followed the novel pretty close. The deaths in the film follow the order in which they happened in the book, with the exception of Mrs. Rosen. And of course Robin, who dies off screen.
If you want another 'serious' film starring Leslie Nielsen, check out Forbidden Planet. It's a late 1950's science fiction story which heavily, if not entirely' influenced Gene Roddenberry to come up with Star Trek. It has different officers wearing colored uniforms, visiting an unknown planet to check on life forms, the time in Forbidden Planet they come out of hyperspace is 17:01 (which is the Enterprise's ship number of course), the concept of transporters in ST and so much more.
Forbidden Planet is probably most famous for Robbie the Robot, the 'evil' character's "personal assistant", it's a big black robot that most people would recognize but may not know it's from that movie.
“The Towering Inferno” goes hand in hand with this one. They were often released together on DVD.
RIP Stella Stevens.
This is the Quadruplex of disaster films:
Airport (1970)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Earthquake (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Big name stars but the big action was mostly done in studio sound stages or back the back lots.
There was a blockbuster remake of this in 2006 starring Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss. I first saw it as a kid and I enjoyed it. But a few years ago, I watched this movie for the first time and realized the remake doesn't come anywhere near the quality of this film.
Happy you brought up the remake, believe it or not that was my first introduction to the original Poseidon Adventure, after I watched the 2006 remake film countless times.
How about the Steve Guttenberg version???
That remake had no redeemable characters. Its was bad.
The remake was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the guy who directed Das Boot. It's not bad, but I think the acting is better in the original, no offense to Kurt Russell.
Regardless, both versions are far better than the 2005 TV movie. That version didn’t even have the Tidal Wave in it.
When I saw this as a kid, I thought it was the best movie I had ever seen. The theme song, "The morning after," was sung by Maureen McGovern and won the Academy Award for best song.
Zero cgi. Won an Oscar for set design.
This movie came out at the end of 1972, my family went on a cruise through the Greek Islands in the summer of 1973 (I was 12). This movie is going from NY to Greece, so it was in a similar area. I wasn't afraid or anything, in fact, I realized that this showed me exactly what to do in case our ship tipped over. Anyway, this movie has always been one of my favorites. CGI was definitely not around at this time, so everything was done practically, with either the actors or stunt performers. And, you're right, it does still stand the test of time.
A Mediterranean cruise sounds like Fun!
.. *cough* * Concordia* *cough*
Gene Hackman is one of only 3 living people from the cast (the actors playing the young siblings being the others). He is 94 years old now (he retired from acting 20 years ago).
This was the film which introduced me to Hackman for the first time. I’ve been a fan ever since.
@@BennySax For me I think it was Hoosiers. I was probably just getting into high school. Then I started renting movies that had him and really loved Poseiden. Shelley Winters to me stole the show though, She is such a great actress.
God I remember watching this movie on reruns on the Disney channel. Loved it such a classic. The remake was ok too but this is a real classic.
@@BennySax Funnily enough my introduction to him was SUPERMAN 1978 followed by ENEMY OF THE STATE and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE rapidly after. I have watched more of his work since.
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No way was this movie on The Disney Channel.
It may not be apparent to modern viewers, but the cast was absolutely stacked. Five of them were previous Oscar winners (and Shelley Winters was nominated for another Oscar - and won a Golden Globe - for portraying Mrs. Rosen).
Cassie, I say again , I love you, I'm 61 years young, and grew up with all these iconic actors, I love seeing you react to these Ole films that are the foundation of my earlier years, yore a gift to all of us who share time with you and Carly ❤
Seeing this reaction made my week. I saw this movie on a VHS tape in the early 90s when I was 6 years old and became obsessed with it to the point I would watch it every day. It'll forever be one of my all time favorites, and no disaster film has come close to this one for me. Particularly when it comes to the characters. In such a short time, they get you to feel so deeply about them all; whether that feeling is love or hate or annoyance. You get who these characters are and they feel like real people each with their own little idiosyncrasies. That's down to the incredible acting and how well each actor embodied their role.
I loved seeing you connect so much with the characters and how invested you were. This movie really stands the test of time.
This is how disaster movies used to be done. Engaging relatable characters, never knowing for sure who was going to die - lacking the standard plot armour for the protagonist that is a trope of cinema today. I've said it before (and I think it was on a reaction to this film actually), they didn't used to treat their audience like children by having someone whom you thought had died suddenly reappear at the end.
P.S. I love how you said, 'They Coen Brothered me.' After I said, in the livechat, it was about as true as Fargo and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
This is one of my favorite movies of the 70's .
This movie made everyone see how long they could hold their breath.
It held the record until _The Abyss._
Yes. I certainly practiced holding my breath a lot!
Yep -- saw this on tv as a kid and we all tied to hold out bread for over 2 minutes in my friend's pool.
I saw this when I was a young kid, and the only part I remembered clearly was the death of Mrs Rosen, played by the wonderful Shelley Winters. It seemed so sad, that it stayed with me for years.
Back when I first saw this movie, I was the kid Robin's age and just as precocious. Every time I see this movie, I relate to a different character.
I always liked his character. At least he didn't die like he did in the book (and his sister didn't get assaulted)
That's a really good point. It's interesting to see how our perspective develops, and we see ourselves reflected in different characters based on what stage we are in life.
CGI didn't really hit it's stride until the late 1990's. Most all of the "effects" in "The Poseidon Adventure" were done for real in front of the camera. That makes it even MORE impressive. The song "There's Got To Be A Morning After" became a hit on the radio in the 70's. Great cast, very memorable characters.
Maureen McGovern sang ‘There’s Got To Be A Morning After’ …it’s really kind of a bitter sweet song, like the movie.
The old filming techniques are being lost to time. Some very clever people did the special effects back then, using illusions from mirrors and perspective tricks. Cgi has its place but nothing compares with real footage. Check out Napoleon 1970. The battle scenes with 10s of thousands of real soldiers just beats everything. Not practical but great
But it started with Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park. First times something made with a computer actually looked real.
@@martinsv9183 when you watch the first Terminator the cgi is awful compared to the 2nd. I watched the 1st not long ago, and the bit near the end which was meant to be scary actually was making me laugh. Took me out of the moment. But it was the best they could do at the time. And back then it was good.
@@Anaj-us4eo As I recall, she was cast as the singer in Irwin Allen's next "disaster " film- singing "We May Never Love Like This Again" - which also became a hit on radio playlists. She may have also sung the intro for the TV series "Angie"
This story is completely fictional, despite the opening lines.
Gene Hackman is in "Enemy of the State" which is quite good, if you haven't seen it. (For those who haven't seen it in a while, it's free with ads on YT movies right now.)
Love your reaction:)
Poesideon is played by RMS Queen Mary, one of the greatest liners ever built. She twice won the blue ribbon for fastest liner in the world (4 day crossing the Atlantic), and in WWII brought half a million troops over for D Day (Hitler put a $250000 bounty on her but she was never caught by U boat- though she almost capsized when hit by a rogue wave, which helped inspire the idea for the Poesideon adventure).
She served 31 years, shortly before retiring starred in the Sinatra movie Assault on a Queen. For over fifty years she's been a floating hotel on Long Beach.
Is inspired real events: The Queen Mary: In 1942, the British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary was hit by a 90-foot rogue wave and nearly capsized. The ship tipped 52 degrees and would have capsized if it had rolled three degrees more. Paul Gallico, the author of the novel that The Poseidon Adventure is based on, was inspired by this incident after taking a trip on the Queen Mary in 1937.
A capsize similar to that in the movie happened in 1993 of the coast of Germany by a ship named MS Jan Heweliusz. The ship is still there in shallow waters in Scuba diving depth, actually pretty close to the Gaz prom pipeline (about 10km). 9 passangers was rescued, but not throw the hull as in the movie.
That did happen in 2004 with the ship. MV Rocknes that while was a cargo ship had a cew of 30. 12 was rescued throw a hole in the hull.
Basically, a ship capsizing is a true thing, but all the human drama in the film was made up.
The exterior shots on the deck were filmed on the Queen Mary.
4:30 the overweight old lady really was an Olympic swimmer when she was young. She turned actress and loved it so much she stuck with it.
Old lady? At this time 52
The woman playing the grandmother was a very glamorous movie star of the 40s and 50s....
Shelly Winters was unique - but she also had a taste for underage boys.
When she was announced to be a guest in the 1960's BATMAN TV Show everyone on the lot warned 21 year old Burt Ward who played Robin that he was going to be fresh prey for her - she made her move right away, leaving a book on sexually pleasuring older women in his Trailer when he was out doing a scene.
@@rhwinner Shelley had just lost about 30+ pounds before she was auditioned for the role. She was dishearted when she was told that she was too thin, and would need to regain that weight to be cast as Mrs. Rosen.
A two-time Oscar-winner, she was nominated for two more including Poseidon Adventure!
She was great in A Place In The Sun!
At one time Shelley Winters and Marilyn Monroe were roommates 🌹❤️🌹
Shelley Winters is truly one of the great screen actresses.. Worth watching her best films, she is so, so good.
The Towering Inferno was made 2 years after this one and is another of the great classics of disaster movies, in that one the tallest building in the world burns down on opening day, put that one on the list of next reactions too, great performances by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
Lots of tension in that movie, behind the scenes. I don't remember which, but McQueen or Newman was signed after the other. He demanded the same number of lines as the other, so they had to do a big rewrite for dialog.
@@Thane36425 I think McQueen was offered the role of the architect of the building at first, but he didn't like the character, he preferred the fire chief, because it was more entertaining and more heroic, then Paul Newman was offered the role of the architect. This was the first time that 2 big studios joined resources to produce a movie, like Fox and Warner, both studios had similar scripts that were going to be filmed almost simultaneously, and before producing rival movies that could make them fail one or the other in the competition, they preferred to join resources and produce a big millionaire movie, merging both scripts to make sure it would be a great success.
Towering Inferno is ok, but not as good as Poseidon Adventure.
@@TTM9691 Yes. It's much slower. And not nearly as emotionally compelling.
*City of Fire* comes to mind when watching that movie, and that episode aired on TV on '66
Many of these actors became passengers of The Love Boat. And the actor who falls backward into the lights was used at the beginning of The Fall Guy, with Lee Majors. A stunt man series.
I saw this in the theater; the audience went wild when Shelley Winters saved the day.
Has no one told her about “The Towering Inferno”?
Cassie!! The Towering Inferno for 70s disaster classics!
I have serious reservations about recommending *The Towering Inferno* for Popcorn In Bed. If *The Poseidon Adventure* put Miss Cassie through the wringer, *Inferno* will almost certainly up the intensity level at least threefold, and I'm not sure I'd want that for her anytime soon. But then, I'm rather a softie. 😕
It’s not a true story.
It’s not a cruise ship; it’s an ocean liner. Ocean liners are made to drive fast across the ocean. They didn’t have water slides.
Totally correct. This movie was based on a book, not a real life incident. Although, it does make me think of the real life Titanic
@@SJHFoto
The book's author, Paul Gallico on a crossing in 1967 and heavy seas caused major scares.
In 1943, the Queen Mary (used as the Poseidon in the movie) was hit by a rogue wave of 70-80 feet off Ireland. It was carrying 10,000 troops and keeled over to 53 degrees. Engineers later calculated two more degrees would have capsized her.
And it's not the USS Poseidon. SS in this context stands for Screw Steamer to show it is steam powered (using fuel to raise steam in boilers to generate pressure) and driven by screw propellers not, for example, paddles (which would be a PS).
The huge slab sided floating casino hotels that are today's cruise ships have very little in common with the classic traditional ocean liners.
So far as I am aware the only true ocean liners still operating is the Queen Mary 2. The original Queen Mary is now preserved at Long Beach California.
Ocean liners are like a real ship. Cruise liners are like an RV :(
Something simular happen to the ship MS Jan Heweliusz in 1993 of the coast of Germany in a that capsized in 180km/h winds.
The ship was a bit smaller than the fictional SS Poseidon, but still pretty sizable. The ship is in shallow water so it can easily be dived to with free drivers. Its actually just a few km from the Nordstreem pipeline. (while about a 100km from where the explosion took place). 9 people saved, 55 died.
MS Jan Heweliusz was in a string of pretty bad accidents on ferry that was going to and from Sweden. In 1990 Scandinavian stars (Copenhagen-Helsingborg-Oslo), 1993 Jan Heweliusz (Świnoujście-Ystad), and 1994 Estonia (Tallinn-Stockholm). After that safety regulations was change quite significantly.
Now there was no people rescued throw the hull of Heweliusz, but that did happen later in Norway for a ship named MS Rocknes. The disaster happened very close to land and there is videos of it both Capsizing as well as the rescue.
ruclips.net/video/QYvFEVOQu1Y/видео.html
This was a cargo ship so its kind of not really similar to that of the movie
Cassie, I knew this movie would hit you like a ton of bricks. ----- Especially when you got to meet Mrs. Rosen and hear the love she has for her grandkids. -------- When her death occurs after she saves Gene Hackman, it really cuts deep.
'Towering Inferno' movie (with Steve Mcqueen) and this movie were on TV constantly during holidays such as Christmas, you could almost bank on it. It was an era of disaster movies, much like when the 90s went through a spell where disaster movies were the 'in thing'.
This movie is like an old friend. How many Sunday afternoons were spent watching this when I should have been doing something productive 😁 I always forget how thick the symbolism is in that final sequence. Pretty heavy stuff. Hackman is so good. So HUMAN. What a pleasant surprise this was!
Cassie, the actor who portrayed Lt. Mike Rogo was Ernest Borgnine, an Oscar-winning and multiple Emmy Award-nominated actor. He also voice "Mermaid Man" on SpongeBob SquarePants.
She probably knows him from Escape From New York. I know him from all his versatile roles over the years. “Marty” is a nice little film of his from long ago.
When I was a kid in the 80s, before seeing in more stuff, he was the guy in "Airwolf".
@@McPh1741 Yes, him and Jan Michael Vincent
If your an old has been like me Mr. Borgnine is remembered most as Commander McHale from McHale's Navy.
Sheriff Lyle from Convoy
That crazy cop from Notosha
Ernest Borgnine played the loudmouthed villain in this film but you need to check him out his charming Oscar-winning performance in "Marty" (1955), as a sad-sack 35-year-old looking for love. I guarantee you'll adore this small lovely film, one of the best of the '50s.
I have always loved "The Poseidon Adventure" for as long as I could remember as I used watch on my old VHS copy, this film was one of the greatest disaster films in history and certainly is better than 'Titanic' in my opinion.
I have to agree. Back then we didn’t have cgi.
Two different approaches. I like both movies pretty equal for different reasons.
I like to watch the first 15 ninutes of "The Titanic" to see the underwater footage.
'Poseidon' has much classier performances than 'Titanic'. You don't see anyone spitting at anyone in 'Poseidon'.
@@FischerFan Right. Only have a former prostitute married to a cop
The first of the Irwin Allen "disaster flicks," All scored by John Williams, BTW. THE TOWERING INFERNO (highly recommended), EARTHQUAKE, and THE SWARM being some of the follow ups as well as BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, which is a "parallelequal." It takes place at the exact same time as the first movie but on another ship turned over by the same title wave.
Was BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE not about the "other" lot of passengers who were going "the other way"?
John Williams scored Irwin Allen’s TV shows prior to the movies.
@@MrGlenspace Back then he was "Johnny Williams."
I didn't know about Beyond! I must watch that.
My favorite of his films is Towering Inferno. My mom and I watched it together a few years ago. Still holds up!!
Actually, Beyond Posiedon IS set in the same boat. The story continues only a few hours after the first movie ends. Michael Caine plays a salvager who discovers the still capsized ship and takes his crew on board in order to claim salvage rights. There are still a handful of other random survivors inside the boat (eg Shirley Jones, Mark Hamil, Angela Cartwright etc) who join them in hopes of rescue. Telly Savalas is also in the mix as a baddie who complicates the group's escape.
The Poseidon Adventure (produced by Irwin Allen) was the first major motion picture composition from the legendary cinematic composer, John Williams. Williams had previously worked in television on other Irwin Allen productions such as Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants, as well as smaller film productions such as Valley of the Dolls, and also composed an adaptation of Jerry Brock's theatrical score for the musical Fiddler on the Roof, which earned him an Oscar for Best Adaptation and Original Song Score. After The Poseidon Adventure (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), John Williams would compose the music for films like The Towering Inferno (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), Earthquake, Jaws (Oscar winner, Best Original Score), Star Wars (Oscar winner, Best Original Score), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), Superman (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), The Empire Strikes Back (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Oscar nominee, Best Original Score), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Oscar winner, Best Original Score), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Witches of Eastwick, The Accidental Tourist, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Born on the Fourth of July, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Lincoln, the first three Harry Potter movies, and the Star War prequel and sequel trilogies.
Presumed Innocent (1990)
The man is an utter legend. 45 years later and you can hum the Superman theme and everyone knows what it's from.
At such a young age this film is what started my being aware of film scores. I love the music. We had to wait for decades for a soundtrack release but it finally did come.
@@bobrunnicles4618 I used to test our community theater sound system with the Superman theme going full blast and anyone who happened to be working in the theater at the time would run down the aisles and leap in the air, whether they were "comic book movie" people or not. So thrilling! I also like RUclips videos of live performances of Williams' themes, whether performed by the Maestro himself, or, almost even better, smaller civic orchestras who know what side their breads' buttered on.
Oh, Cassie needs to watch Valley of the dolls….there’s a classic! The gorgeous Sharon Tate!
The Captain did try to do something. Ships are designed basically to cut through waves, so if the bow had been turned fully into the wave they probably would have had a good chance. The ship would have been damaged but probably would not have rolled or sunk. Getting hit on the side was the worst.
At the end, that valve wheel wasn't just wet, it was being blasted by steam so it would have been very hot as well as wet.
Yep. Realistically, his hands would be shown as bloody strips of flesh after 30 seconds.
Actually they try to hit the wave at a slight angle so the keel is not exposed for a great length. If the keel is exposed for a certain length the weight of the ballast could break it.
You have to watch The Towering Inferno. That was the film that made me fall in love with movies - and I thought Steve McQueen was just so cool (I was 6).
Gene Hackman is still alive. He's 94 years old.
Irwin Allen was famous for 1970s disaster movies and one of the key concepts was that they always had a large cast of a-list actors and you NEVER knew who would die; all you knew was a lot of them were going to die. 1970s disaster movies were incredibly fun but there could always be tears around the corner as one of your favorite movie stars bit the dust. Towering Inferno, Earthquake, all the Airport movies (which were the movies Airplane! was parodying) very cool movies you might want to consider checking out. Love your reaction as always. :)
Wow, Eric Shea, Pamela Sue Martin and Gene Hackman are the only members of the original cast that are still alive now.. Stella Stevens just passed last year
STEL LA!! She was a good actress too
@@Anaj-us4eo She was great in Lil Abner and also in The Ballard of Cable Hogue
Yes but Ernest Borgnine did pretty well - he reached 95. In his later years Borgnine and Jack Elam did guest slots on Home Improvement.
His last TV appearance was on SNL's "What's Up with That"
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. Mrs Rosen spends the whole movie tugging at your heartstrings, from when we first see her knitting on deck & looking forward to seeing her grandson, to the very end when she absolutely devastates us all.
Such a great cast in this one, too. I know the names probably mean almost nothing to you younger folks, but us oldtimers know Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Gene Hackman (you might remember him as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein), Roddy McDowell, Jack Albertson, Earnest Borgnine, Stella Stevens; really just a spectacular group of actors.
(And in a bit of irony - near the beginning of your video, just before the Captain gets the message about the underwater earthquake, we actually had a small quake here. Nothing major, just enough to upset the dogs, but still the timing was excellent.)
This movie featured an insane number of Oscar Winners:
Gene Hackman (Edit: The French Connection, Unforgiven)
Ernest Borgnine (Marty)
Shelly Winters (A Patch of Blue; The Diary of Anne Frank)
Red Buttons (Sayonara)
Jack Albertson ( The Subject was Roses)
John Williams -(5 wins for best score)
Harold Kress (2 wins for editing)
AD Flowers - special effects for The Posiden Adventure!
Maybe I'm missing some. Plus many others have won Golden Globes or other awards.
I don’t think gene won an Oscar for Mississippi burning it was unforgivable!
It was unforgiven that gene won an Oscar not Mississippi burning!
@@User-tt9ow7c9e you are right, I edited my comment.
@@User-tt9ow7c9e and I like what you did there!
Hackman won for The French Connection as well.
One of the key films of my childhood- still a fantastic viewing experience. Mad Magazine did a great parody of this as well- "The Poopsidedown Adventure."
I used a set of colored pencils to "colorize" my copy of "The Poopsidedown Adventure".
Another good one from that era…The Towering Inferno.
Yes. Made by the same people 2 years later.
Right! if you thought this movie was intense you should watch The Towering Inferno
@@kenrfcMy aunt took me to see The Towering Inferno when I was seven, and it scared the living bejesus out of me. To this day, I can’t bring myself to watch it again; and, to this day, my worst nightmare is dying in a fire.
@@kenrfc I came out of the theater after watching The Towering Inferno completely EXHAUSTED, just like Posiden, just thrashed. Back then there was no guarantee the hero, or your fav character/actor would survive. The emotional roller coaster these movies took you on was intense. I kind of miss that… now it’s all about how many sequels can they get.
40:00 they may be characters, but they definitely portrayed a more believable(as we are not perfect) reaction to disaster than the glossier, modern heroes of our movies today.
There was no CGI in 1972, so it was all done with practical sets and stunts. Oh, and a miniature ship for external shots.
CGI sucks and is totally unrealistic.
Leslie Nielsen was also the Captain in Forbidden Planet. He was a serious actor before Airplane.
The 1970's was known for a lot of disaster movies, "AIRPORT", "EARTHQUAKE", "AIRPORT 1975", "THE TOWERING INFERNO" and a few more all good movies you should react to.
Also, Airport ‘77 and The Concorde: Airport ‘79.
I saw this movie as a kid. Now I see a lot more as an adult that I couldn't grasp. The actors were awesome and the story line was deep. There is a reason this movie has lasted this long as a popular film.
Shelly Winters had a career of like 50 years; 2 Oscars, a few Oscar nominations. I believe she got an Oscar for this movie. What's The Matter With Helen, The Diary of Anne Frank are other great movies she starred in.
Shelly was a blonde bombshell for a time in the 50s. She and Marilyn Monroe were best buddies.
She got nominated, but didn’t win.
How about "Lolita."
Shelly Winters won her second Best Supporting Actress award for A Patch Of Blue . Her first win was for The Autobiography Of Anne Frank directed by her favorite director, George Stevens. Stevens changed the way Hollywood viewed her by casting her as the doomed love interest of Montgomery Clift in, A Place In The Sun. Before she was just another glamour girl but after a serious actress. Her last nomination was for Last Stop Greenwich Village. She said in some interviews that she believed her role in Night Of The Hunter was her most overlooked performance and she had the most fun in Alfie.
she was damn good in 'Night of the Hunter' - film that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.....(of 23....)
Also, not sure anyone has mentioned that Ernest Borgnine (Mike Rogo in the movie, aka THIS GUY 18:17) is the voice of Mermaid Man from SpongeBob. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVILLLL
Oh, PLEASE watch Towering Inferno. I saw it in the theatre as a kid and it was just awesome.
The story the movie is based on was an incident aboard the liner Queen Mary when she was serving as a troopship during World War 2. She had 10,000 US troops onboard when she was hit by a rogue wave. She was laid over on her side and then hung onto that crazy angle that it very nearly turned her over. She finally returned upright and sailed on her way, but it was a very close thing. Some have said that had she gone over 5 feet or more she would never have recovered.
This incident gave author Paul Gallico the idea for writing "The Poseidon Adventure".
The Irwin Allen disaster movies with star-studded casts were great entertainment in the 70's. Another great movie is "The Towering Inferno". I hope you'll watch more of them!
Mrs Rosen's death, and Gene Hackman's words STILL make me cry and I first watched this film when it was released! Yes, the dialogue and a few other things (the dancing, LOL!!) are quite dated, but my goodness this movie still holds your attention and gets you in the feels!
Always love your reactions Cassie, thank you!
17:30 -- RE: Why trust the Purser?; A: Is also a Petty Officer usually, and probably the last officer left alive at this moment in time. Even though this isn't a military vessel, it is still following a chain of command in terms of the operation of the ship itself and also in terms of the fleet taking orders from the company that operates it.
17:31 a purser on a steam ship (ss) cruise liner(not a cruse ship) generally will handle all of your valuable items and cash. The doors on old ships your cabin/rooms did not lock. So if you were worried about your expensive jewelry or money you would turn it in to the purser at the pursers office and they would put it in one of the ships safes. If you should want to retrieve your jewelry say for a new years party then you simply went back and asked for your things. Also if you stored money you could have your drinks 🍸 special food or cigars and such put on a running tab that would be sent back to the pursers office to be settled up before the end of your stay. The purser was often the one you would see to rent a specific deck chair get your table for dinner 🍽 on its seating. Now with this being set in the 50's and not the 20's not sure how much the purser still did but historically this was their role.
@@robertyingling8193This movie was not set in the 50‘s, but in the 70’s.
This movie still brings tears to my eyes, even thou I have seen it many times.
The Poseidon Adventure was based on the novel by Paul Gallico, inspired by a real-life incident when Gallico was traveling on the RMS Queen Mary, and the ship had been hit by a series of large waves. The ship actually listed to the side to the point where plates and furniture were thrown around, and he could actually see the ocean close to his window. The ballast tanks in the Queen Mary allowed the ship to right itself, as it was designed to do, but the experience gave Gallico the idea for The Poseidon Adventure.
Excellent comment but it is not HMS the correct term is RMS which stands for Royal Mail Ship.
@@graememacdonald8265 Sorry. Thanks for the correction.
Is not Queen Elizabeth is Queen Mary.
@@EdiCemalovic Yes, thanks for the correction.
RMS Queen Mary, known as "Rolling Mary", had a notorious stability issue.
Thank you so much for reacting to this. I’m 62 now, but when this movie came out, I was a teenager and had such a crush on Gene Hackman in this. Our family was financially OK, but by no means had a lot of money, and I remember mom let me go see this at the movies four times and then another two times at the drive-in. What a great woman she was, and I miss her. Dad was good too, but I’m sure she didn’t tell him how many times she let me go see it. He would’ve… let’s say… not been happy, ha ha. I loved it so much I remember cutting the advertisement out of the newspaper and putting it in my diary, writing I get to see it again!! Sixth time!! Thanks again, this brought back good memories.❤️❤️❤️
Can i recommend The Towering Inferno (1974) w/ Paul Newman. Great movie
30:41 Mark! "Capsized"! As in rolled over from from top side to bottom side. "Flipped"?! Now that's a funny visual! Flipping end over end like an Olympic gymnast! 😂
Lord Zeus: "Brother, why are you on the competition floor?"
Lord Poseidon: "I feel the need to flip! Watch me!" 😅😂
The Poseidon Adventure was #2 at the box office ($93M), behind The Godfather ($133M)
Shelley Winters was one of great actors from the late 40’s ,50’s and 60’s(Mrs. Rosen) .She was very beautiful when she was younger and if I recall you have watched Winchester 73 in which she was the lead actress along with jimmy Stewart ❤
Was just looking at photos from every five years of Gene Hackman's life. He was the cutest child ever. Then at 20 he turned 38 for some reason. Lol. Saw the most recent photo of him and you can't even tell it's him anymore. Aging is a trip. Great career though...some really great roles.
Yeah, the Marine Corp will do that to you!
Gene was always such a robust fellow with a lot of forward energy. Sad to see him so frail now.
I just looked up recent pics of Gene Hackman. I refuse to believe that's the same person, there's no way that's the same person.
He was still great in one of my favorite movies, 2001's _The Royal Tenenbaums_
@@fredfredburger5150 He's 94. We don't all get to age like Christopher Plummer. If I'm still alive at 94 I'll probably look like something from a horror movie.
5:55 Mark! Cassie, "olden days"?! 😮 It is set when it came out! 😮
By the way, that is a "ship" not a "boat" no matter how many people mistakenly call it a "boat"! 😮
This movie has a sequel known as "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" with Shirley Jones from "The Partridge Family" and "Tank" in it!
There are also two rival remakes that came out in the same year, if not month! One in movie theaters and one for cablevision in some places and television in others!
The singer known as "Fergie" is in one of them playing the singer!
Both versions, now they take place on cruise ships! ⚓️
Got to checkout The Towering Inferno. Best disaster film ever made.
I love how Cassie calls the early 70s "olden times." A time with planes, man landing on the moon and, I assume, her parents were alive.
I was reading an article recently and then saw it was from 2003 and thought "oh this is ancient, why am I reading this" and looked for something more recent on the subject. But all the information in that article was correct. It's not like we didn't know anything in 2003.
1972 ‘the olden days’. Oh my, lol.