That shot of Ernest Borgnine looking back at the fire & knowing his wife Linda won't be coming with him is just gut wrenching. You can see the sadness & pain on his face without him saying a word. Underated actor.
I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out the look on his face I felt sorry for him and Mr Rosen when they both lost their wives 😢 they were all so close to being rescued.
I love the simplicity of the ending. They all get in the helicopter, it promptly takes off, and before it even leaves the shot, we fade to black. There is something unsentimental about it. The adventure is over.
The ending really be bittersweet (which looking at the 2006 remake's ending, it pales in comparison to the 1972's ending) While they manage to escape and survive, they lost Acres, Belle, Linda, and Scott tragically, especially with Belle and Linda, it's really sad and painful to see Rogo and Manny have to go on without their wives in the end
@@quillmaurer6563 Apparently they did shoot the sinking but they didn't like how it looked and didn't want to go over budget reshooting it. There are at least two still shots that seem to prove this. Type up "Poseidon Adventure unused shots" in the image search.
Rogou finally realizing that Rev. Scott was right all along, then his expression of knowing how he antagonized him the whole way and his reaction to losing him and especially his wife when they were so close is heartbreaking
I like all of this about Rogo's feelings for Scott & linda. Rogo isn't too bad. He's a good guy & a brave policeman but he was a bit grumpy & had a habit of moaning & complaining. In spite of all this, he & Scott got along most of the time. I wish Scott had told him not to blame him for his wife's death & remind him that it was an accident as the boat shook & caused Linda to slip & fall into the fire 🔥. Scott should tell rogo that b4 asking him to get the rest of the group to safety 🦺. Rogo finally had the chance to do something more positive & heroic. Scott & Linda would both b proud of him ❤
I laughed at how James Martin criticised rogo for all his negative attitude & behaviour & started to taunt him, "On his belly" causing rogo to reply "Alright, u, that's enough" 😂
R.I.P. Jack Albertson (1907 - 1981), Red Buttons (1919 - 2006), Ernest Borgnine (1917 - 2012) and Carol Lynley (1942 - 2019). Remembering the adult characters who survived The Poseidon Adventure!
@@isuckatthesegames7119 I've met her. She's no young woman anymore, but she looks great. And she's a very nice lady too. We laughed about how she just happened to have those little red shorts on under the dress.
@@isuckatthesegames7119 In the book, it was worse. Robin died because he ran away to find a bathroom (or at least a place to pee) and then water got in that area and drowned him. Susan was then r@ped by a panicked young ship worker in the confusion of losing Robin. The young ship worker/r@pist then realised, "Oh Heck, what have I done?" Susan then sympathised with the r@pist, forgave him... and the r@pist end-gamed himself in shame. The epilogue showed Susan going to find the r@pist's family and to see if she was pregnant from the @ssault, because the r@pist would have a legacy for his family in the next generation. She keeps the r@pe secret. The children's mother Jane also escapes but is left a depressed wreck as her baby died and she lived. Susan never fell in love with Reverend Scott either. Instead, a woman that escaped with the group, Mary Kinsale, is the one to be left broken by his sacrifice - and she randomly screams that they were to have wed (however, there is no evidence at all in the book to suggest that Reverend Scott was ever in a relationship with her).
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there. I'll tell you how I climbed out the bottom of a boat to fresh air.
It's hard to imagine the impact this movie must have had back in 1972. There really hadn't been anything like it. I was too young to see it at the time but I remember vividly the huge buzz and excitement when it came out. It's been one of my favourites ever since I eventually got to see it. Great acting and storytelling, and such a memorable final scene as the camera gives us one last look at each of the characters and we see the exhaustion and pain of what they've been through, etched on their faces. Brilliant!
I was in high school when it came out. We were in the lobby waiting to go in for the last showing of the night, and one of the ushers came out of the auditorium shortly before the previous showing let out, and he said, "There's people crying in there."
My mom, dad and I saw this movie in a major movie theatre about the third weeks of it’s original run. It cost my dad less than ten bucks for the three of us!
Because people in that time worked so hard for those films (acting, writting, special effects, etc). They didn't have CGI or fancy cameras, computers, gadgets, blah, blah, blah... That's why the classic movies are gold: you can feel the magic, effort, passion and heart of all those talented people.
I was 12 and my older sister took me. I can remember it so vividly. It was so exciting and you just don't forget a movie and movie outing like this. Oh the music was so mesmerizing. I love my older sister so much. She is 68 I am 62. Thanks Dee!
such a good movie on so many levels, a combination "character study" and disaster-action film. With a deeper message of the human condition. They do still make movies as good as this now, but they are few and far between.
Good movies like this were probably few and far between back in the day too, but only the good ones are remembered thus we perceive old movies as being better. Movies then and now are a mix of mostly mediocre and a few really good, recent ones we think of all, old ones we think only of the good, leading to this bias. Probably a form of "survivor bias."
"How many of you down there?" "Six." "Is that all?!" "Dude, you guys only have one chopper with you. What if we were a hundred, could you have flown us all?"
The musical score is amongst of John Williams's best! Great movie on so many levels. Would have loved to have seen this first run in the cinema, vs seeing it the first time on the small screen! Great cast and performance which will never be matched in our lifetime!
As much as I loved the ending it bothered me that there was only one rescue copter.This was a cruise ship.They should have expected a couple hundred survivors
Originally there was supposed to be a long shot of the capsized ship as the helicopter took off but there wasn’t enough in the budget for it, you probably would’ve seen more rescue vessels/helicopters if they did. Plus the ship was sinking at such an angle that they had to get to the engine room before the seawater swallowed the entire ship that’s why there were no survivors in the bow section
A lesser movie that didn't trust it's audience or actors would've flashed back to the characters the survivors were thinking about. Very well written, well acted, well directed scene.
They entirely ran out of money. This was all they could afford to film, it wasn't artistic choice. The script canned for a flotilla of rescue craft, and plenty of time to observe the eventual sinking.
I think he was thinking what an arsehole he was towards his wife and very much to Reverend scott who to the end gave his life and gave Rogo confidence to keep going , And knowing Rogo himself could never pay this debt back.
So many great films back then. I never forget the emotionally powerful fims. Even now so many years later this film hits me hard every time. All performances are stellar.
One thing you have to hand the makers of "The Poseidon Adventure" is that they did their homework regarding the accuracy of the helicopter used at the end. The helicopter is a Westland Whirlwind (a license-built version made in the U.K. of the American Sikorsky S-55/H-19) and the French Navy did indeed use them.
Paul Gallico wrote a novel as a sequel to the movie because the film did not had the ship sinking into the ocean. Rogo, Rosen and the Red Buttons character went back into the ship (!!!!). They ran into two competing salvage crews and a team of “pirates”. Rosen decided to die to be with Belle while the ship’s nurse turned out to have survived. The film adaptation was very different .
recall ---it was RED BUTTONS character who suggests going up....not bringing AKERS down.....when the world turns upside down....stay calm and remember what changes when the ceiling becomes the floor.....(post coronavirus pandemic??!!)
Given the explosions within the Posiedon and that her stern is barely above water it would've been too risky for them to go searching the upside down Poseidon for more survivors
I know the story ends where it ends but who doesn’t have curiosity about when the helicopter lands and the 6 survivors are treated like the major news story of the day (and the new year) which of course they would be. And the 2 kids reunited with their parents and Manny makes it to Israel to see his grandchild.
There should have been a big gush of air from the ship to the outside. The pressure in a capsized ship would be higher than atmospheric pressure. I saw this movie when I was about 10 years old and could never figure why the pressures would be the same.
I've always thought the same, both in this and the remake. Given the trapped air, the air pressure inside would be far greater than outside. For the same reason, the trapped air would prevent it from sinking, it could float like that for a good while, but then would sink fairly quickly once holes are cut in it. Both the blast of air and this causing it to sink would present problems for rescuers on how to get survivors out.
@Quill Maurer are you forgetting the fact that the top of the ship is now deep underwater? Water pressure would burst open doors and windows on the superstructure aswell as portholes and cause the ship to sink. The sewol ferry experienced this, it capsized from terrible cargo placement and it flooded as water easily burst open windos and doors when the ship started to capsize. It sank. What makes you think a ship with even more windows, doors and portholes, etc and open watertight doors will survive?
I'm afraid that was an acetylene torch. My concern was that the torch would burn off the oxygen before rescue. It happened to survivors trapped on the USS Oklahoma. Some were suffocated trying to get them out.
The Helicopter took off as the ship was about to sink but they cut the sinking out due to it looking rubbish. Then you get beyond the Poseidon adventure (or it's original working title: the poseidon adventure - the search for more money) which makes no sense as the ship was sinking in this movie and at quite a pace but the water kindly holds back and the ship stays afloat long enough to get another movie out of it before it blow-ups.
The fact that the movie ended with the ship not sinking had the Powers That Be convinced Paul Gallico, the author of the original novel, to write a novel sequel to the movie. In the book, Rogo, Rosen and Martin went BACK into the ship for whatever reasons, there they encounter opportunistic pirates, including a team of people who scuba dived into the dining room and scoop jewelry and valuables from the dead. Manly couldn't live without Belle and let himself be killed. The nurse from the movie turned out to have survive the flooding of the bow and etc etc.
Most people today would use the term cruise ship. But in 1972 ocean liner was the usual term and that year you could still cross the Atlantic on the QE2, the SS France, the Rotterdam, and 3 Italian line ships. Some celebrities at the time still preferred ships, I think David Bowie and Dustin Hoffman to name 2. Plus wealthy people with a lot of luggage (and who had the time).
Survivors list: 1. Mike Rogo 2. Manny Rosen 3. James Martin 4. Nonnie Parry 5. Susan Shelby 6. Robin Shelby Crew members unable to survive: 1. Acres 2. Belle Rosen 3. Linda Rogo 4. Frank Scott
to the degree that they are true to CHRIST.....many will declare...one day... THE PREACHER WAS RIGHT...THAT BEAUTIFUL (sob) WAS RIGHT....it is not too late....... PEACE
2005 had very good effects, but 1972 had better storyline and more likeable characters, besides makes you feel despair they would feel in that situation since 99% of the movie shows the ship from inside when capsized.
Erik The remake had CG to work with, the 1972 version had to use models. I’d say the 1972 version is way more impressive with the effects since in my opinion the remake just looks like a dated CG disaster movie that you’d find in the dollar bin
Can you imagine Gene Wilder as Mr. Martin? Sally Kellerman as Linda Rogo? Petula Clark as Nonnie the pop singer? They were all original casting choices!!
i wish the last shot would have shown from the helicopter pov of them taking off from the ship to get a better sense of how the ship was floating in the water.
I love, have always loved the incompleteness of this ending. They 'ran out of money" so they couldn't do anything more, but just the six people, lost someone they loved, people they didn't know who worked to save them as well, and they are the ones who survived. Even Linda Rogo's death. She was absolutely vicious in the book (unnecessarily so) and would have worked just fine as an empty trophy wife of the policeman Borgnine. Her death hurt him, as well as was not what Nonnie was wanting to see. It's just empty. They strained for some completion there with Red Buttons and Carol Lynley hugging, but that was just glad to be alive, nothing else. All they had, and all we should really have everyday anyway. They didn't pair up like Noah's Ark at the end of the second movie, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. That's why I have always liked this one. It just topples what the disaster is supposed to be.
@@lionelllinas5834And besides even if it didn’t explode, the ship would have eventually sunk regardless as when the rescue team cut the hole in the ships hull, all the trapped air keeping the ship buoyant and afloat would have escaped, eventually causing it to fully sumerge.
@@SergioFlores-xx4smwell, if they had resealed the hole, they could have parbuckle salvaged her... But given the state of the inside of her, the Poseidon would have been only fit to be broken up for scrap. Because she would be a total constructive loss.
Tbh the situation that been set up in this original version may not really intensely tragic & lethal compared to 2006 remake but the story dialog, emotion and the character development in this version are on point. Gene may not be badass and didn't have a strength like Dylan from the remake one but he is still a life saver no matter what he sacrifice for and has great character personality imo. That's what make me adore his characteristic even more even if he died at the end of the movie
@@SciTrekMan Shakespeare? I think he was just asking the question about survivors. I don't think even a tragic quote from Shakespeare would be appropriate or appreciated by the survivors at that time
Great disaster movie. Unfortunate though that they would only test one part of the ship for survivors before rapidly taking off on a helicopter! 'Are there any other survivors?' 'No'. 'Ok then' !
lots of comments about more choppers. I like this movie, but the physics of what happened to the ship would be all but imposiible.(seawater would be pouring though the ballroom skylight right away) But lets say it's accurate. Nobody would re enter the ship to search it as by the look of the flooding as they made their way up, it could sink @ any moment. Therefore any further choppers & recue boats would be irrellivent to the story.
His wife died in that fire, five minutes before, in that chamber behind them. He’s realizing they were very close to both surviving - and he’s crushed over losing her.
Captain Harrison, Mr Linarcos, and the rest of the bridge crew were drowned when the bridge was flooded. Joe and his engineering team were killed when the engine room was pretty much wrecked in the capsizing. The Purser was killed when the dining room flooded. The chefs and other kitchen staff died in the capsizing from burns, scalding, and blunt force trauma. As for the stewards and other personnel, they were killed in the capsizing too. Dr. Caravello and the nurse that was with him and those other passengers headed to the bow probably drowned, along with John the other priest, who drowned in the flooding of the dining room. 😢
@@mikegallant811 in the book it said that the doctor and the nurse and the other passengers survived cuz there was an second hole out but since this is a movie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They were gonna have it sink in this scene originally but it apparently looked awful and they didn’t want to go over budget reshooting it so they just ended it here.
@@jackhollandthe3800 well Jack you got to remember something Buddy in the original work the Poseidon even though it was upside down was still on a pretty even keel until the end but in this movie unfortunately she was settling by the bow and the bow was under water and Dr caravello and those that were with him probably drowned.
@@thatcoolguy6773 actually in the book, the SS Poseidon was supposed to sink in the end but I don’t think they had the budget to sink the ship at the end. The sequel wasn’t originally gonna be set in the ship, it was supposed to be set in a collapsed train tunnel
That shot of Ernest Borgnine looking back at the fire & knowing his wife Linda won't be coming with him is just gut wrenching. You can see the sadness & pain on his face without him saying a word. Underated actor.
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I can never see him without hearing "My Lindaaa"
The guilt is crushing. Mr. Rosen too! Yet his humanity stayed as he made sure the children were the first out. He was the last to leave!
I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out the look on his face I felt sorry for him and Mr Rosen when they both lost their wives 😢 they were all so close to being rescued.
1:32 see it
I love the simplicity of the ending. They all get in the helicopter, it promptly takes off, and before it even leaves the shot, we fade to black. There is something unsentimental about it. The adventure is over.
Irwin Allen promised Fox he'd bring the film in on time and on budget, so there you go.
The ending really be bittersweet (which looking at the 2006 remake's ending, it pales in comparison to the 1972's ending)
While they manage to escape and survive, they lost Acres, Belle, Linda, and Scott tragically, especially with Belle and Linda, it's really sad and painful to see Rogo and Manny have to go on without their wives in the end
Others were commenting that there was supposed to be a grand shot of the ship sinking, but there wasn't enough budget for it.
@@quillmaurer6563 Apparently they did shoot the sinking but they didn't like how it looked and didn't want to go over budget reshooting it. There are at least two still shots that seem to prove this. Type up "Poseidon Adventure unused shots" in the image search.
@@mando9364 Ah, so still same end results that they didn't have the budget to do it right.
One of the best disaster movies ever!
They later made a sequel to it, a movie remake, and even a tv movie, but none of those match up with this.
Rogou finally realizing that Rev. Scott was right all along, then his expression of knowing how he antagonized him the whole way and his reaction to losing him and especially his wife when they were so close is heartbreaking
I like all of this about Rogo's feelings for Scott & linda. Rogo isn't too bad. He's a good guy & a brave policeman but he was a bit grumpy & had a habit of moaning & complaining. In spite of all this, he & Scott got along most of the time. I wish Scott had told him not to blame him for his wife's death & remind him that it was an accident as the boat shook & caused Linda to slip & fall into the fire 🔥. Scott should tell rogo that b4 asking him to get the rest of the group to safety 🦺. Rogo finally had the chance to do something more positive & heroic. Scott & Linda would both b proud of him ❤
I laughed at how James Martin criticised rogo for all his negative attitude & behaviour & started to taunt him, "On his belly" causing rogo to reply "Alright, u, that's enough" 😂
R.I.P. Jack Albertson (1907 - 1981), Red Buttons (1919 - 2006), Ernest Borgnine (1917 - 2012) and Carol Lynley (1942 - 2019).
Remembering the adult characters who survived The Poseidon Adventure!
And Susan Somehow isn’t as hot as she used to be. SUS
@@isuckatthesegames7119 I've met her. She's no young woman anymore, but she looks great. And she's a very nice lady too. We laughed about how she just happened to have those little red shorts on under the dress.
I didn't realise the woman playing Nonnie had died. :-( Heart attack.
Roddy McDowell (1928 - 1998), Shelley Winters (1920 - 2006), Lesley Nielsen (1924 - 2010), Stella Stevens (1938 - 2023)
Yes. @@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes
I was so happy that they were found. And yet, I was so sad for Gene because he gave his life for the 6 remaining survivors.
Lol film theory if he looked into disaster films: ReVeReNd ScOtT iS sTiLl AlIvE
You mean Reverend Scott because Gene is still alive
@@hankpikuni7024 what
28 September 1994: Sinking Of The MS Estonia At 01:35am.After 01:48am The Silja Europa, Mariella And Helicopter In Turku He's Going To Rescure Plan
@@isuckatthesegames7119 yes he is Lol.
I feel so bad for mr manny Rosen and mr rogo bc they had to leave their wives
same here
Sharing the same horrific loss of a spouse, I like to think they become friends and help support each other when it’s almost impossible to bear.
And Nonnie loosing her brother
Susan was in love with Scott to. Robins engineer friend probably died. And Nonnie lost her brother.
*they all lost someone*
@@isuckatthesegames7119 In the book, it was worse.
Robin died because he ran away to find a bathroom (or at least a place to pee) and then water got in that area and drowned him.
Susan was then r@ped by a panicked young ship worker in the confusion of losing Robin. The young ship worker/r@pist then realised, "Oh Heck, what have I done?" Susan then sympathised with the r@pist, forgave him... and the r@pist end-gamed himself in shame. The epilogue showed Susan going to find the r@pist's family and to see if she was pregnant from the @ssault, because the r@pist would have a legacy for his family in the next generation. She keeps the r@pe secret.
The children's mother Jane also escapes but is left a depressed wreck as her baby died and she lived.
Susan never fell in love with Reverend Scott either. Instead, a woman that escaped with the group, Mary Kinsale, is the one to be left broken by his sacrifice - and she randomly screams that they were to have wed (however, there is no evidence at all in the book to suggest that Reverend Scott was ever in a relationship with her).
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there. I'll tell you how I climbed out the bottom of a boat to fresh air.
This one was waaaaay better than the remake
Yes definitely !! Some of best actress and actors in history in it --------------- magnificent work, this film. !
Totally!
I couldn’t agree more
Kevin Jackson I know
IKR, the remake was just about the wave!
It's hard to imagine the impact this movie must have had back in 1972. There really hadn't been anything like it. I was too young to see it at the time but I remember vividly the huge buzz and excitement when it came out. It's been one of my favourites ever since I eventually got to see it. Great acting and storytelling, and such a memorable final scene as the camera gives us one last look at each of the characters and we see the exhaustion and pain of what they've been through, etched on their faces. Brilliant!
I was in the theatre watching it as an 11 yr old..You have no idea of the terror of that movie during that time..Unless you were there..
@@stephaniesimpson1150 I watched it in the summer of '73 as a 10 year old.
I was in high school when it came out. We were in the lobby waiting to go in for the last showing of the night, and one of the ushers came out of the auditorium shortly before the previous showing let out, and he said, "There's people crying in there."
I had just travelled, by ship, from England to South Africa... A few weeks later I was taken, age 11, to a drive-in theatre to watch this film.
I watched 1973, was 8 years old, great movie.
an endlessly masterpiece with a masterpiece music
2:17 RIP Carol Lynley 1942 - 2019 😭
sad to hear that-she's only 30 here
Reunited with Ernest, Red and Jack 🙏🏻
My mom, dad and I saw this movie in a major movie theatre about the third weeks of it’s original run. It cost my dad less than ten bucks for the three of us!
They don't make movies like this anymore. And the acting!!!! Don't know if it can ever be outdone....
Well, you had Ernest Borgnine and Leslie Nielsen.
Because people in that time worked so hard for those films (acting, writting, special effects, etc). They didn't have CGI or fancy cameras, computers, gadgets, blah, blah, blah... That's why the classic movies are gold: you can feel the magic, effort, passion and heart of all those talented people.
It was Red Buttons shining moment
Modern Hollywood films is different nowadays
I was 12 and my older sister took me. I can remember it so vividly. It was so exciting and you just don't forget a movie and movie outing like this. Oh the music was so mesmerizing. I love my older sister so much. She is 68 I am 62. Thanks Dee!
such a good movie on so many levels, a combination "character study" and disaster-action film. With a deeper message of the human condition. They do still make movies as good as this now, but they are few and far between.
Good movies like this were probably few and far between back in the day too, but only the good ones are remembered thus we perceive old movies as being better. Movies then and now are a mix of mostly mediocre and a few really good, recent ones we think of all, old ones we think only of the good, leading to this bias. Probably a form of "survivor bias."
one of my favourite films of all time, a classic.
A VERY HEAVY DUTY ENDING! Broke the Hearts of many others who saw this film.
💖 this is one film you never forget, great classic
Damn both Pamela Sue Martin and Carol Lynley were so gorgeous in this movie.
Such a classic.
"How many of you down there?"
"Six."
"Is that all?!"
"Dude, you guys only have one chopper with you. What if we were a hundred, could you have flown us all?"
The musical score is amongst of John Williams's best! Great movie on so many levels. Would have loved to have seen this first run in the cinema, vs seeing it the first time on the small screen!
Great cast and performance which will never be matched in our lifetime!
As much as I loved the ending it bothered me that there was only one rescue copter.This was a cruise ship.They should have expected a couple hundred survivors
Originally there was supposed to be a long shot of the capsized ship as the helicopter took off but there wasn’t enough in the budget for it, you probably would’ve seen more rescue vessels/helicopters if they did. Plus the ship was sinking at such an angle that they had to get to the engine room before the seawater swallowed the entire ship that’s why there were no survivors in the bow section
Whem the rescuers were ask if they saved anyone from the bow they replied "no". I think in plot they have already search other places.
Light in the Piazza exactly! Sometimes less is more.
Because of the film's budget. I think it's implied there were many other rescue vessels. They just didn't have the money to film it.
We only *see* one chopper.
A lesser movie that didn't trust it's audience or actors would've flashed back to the characters the survivors were thinking about. Very well written, well acted, well directed scene.
They entirely ran out of money.
This was all they could afford to film, it wasn't artistic choice.
The script canned for a flotilla of rescue craft, and plenty of time to observe the eventual sinking.
The Towering Inferno picks up where the Poseidon Adventure left off.
I think he was thinking what an arsehole he was towards his wife and very much to Reverend scott who to the end gave his life and gave Rogo confidence to keep going , And knowing Rogo himself could never pay this debt back.
He can try by living the best life he can and being the best man he can. Like Capt. Miller said, "Earn this. Earn it."
So many great films back then. I never forget the emotionally powerful fims. Even now so many years later this film hits me hard every time. All performances are stellar.
One thing you have to hand the makers of "The Poseidon Adventure" is that they did their homework regarding the accuracy of the helicopter used at the end. The helicopter is a Westland Whirlwind (a license-built version made in the U.K. of the American Sikorsky S-55/H-19) and the French Navy did indeed use them.
Great ending. And then came “Beyond The Poseidon Adventure” which was like so-so.
Paul Gallico wrote a novel as a sequel to the movie because the film did not had the ship sinking into the ocean. Rogo, Rosen and the Red Buttons character went back into the ship (!!!!). They ran into two competing salvage crews and a team of “pirates”. Rosen decided to die to be with Belle while the ship’s nurse turned out to have survived. The film adaptation was very different .
Filled with Academy Award winners.. Gene Hackman, Shelly Winters, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, and Red Buttons!
Anyone agree with me that Red Buttons was really sweet looking?
recall ---it was RED BUTTONS character who suggests going up....not bringing AKERS down.....when the world turns upside down....stay calm and remember what changes when the ceiling becomes the floor.....(post coronavirus pandemic??!!)
I remember seeing this movie in a theater with my uncle and cousins when I was a kid. Still love this movie to this day!
The ending music so perfect and full of humanity. Of struggling to survive and helping others in their own struggles
EXCELLENT MOVIE
Shelly Winter's character dying in front of Gene Hackman did it for me😢😢
Rogo's pain reminds me of Rose's pain from TITANIC
Superb acting by Ernest Borgnine; such an expressive face.
My favorite dialogue comes from this movie.
me thinking that maybe is survivors in like bedrooms or other places than the ballroom and the helicopter just took off
Given the explosions within the Posiedon and that her stern is barely above water it would've been too risky for them to go searching the upside down Poseidon for more survivors
There are other survivors, they actually have a sequel of this called Beyond the Poseidon Adventure that came out in 1979.
The Kendog 1988
The sequel is shoehorned
I know the story ends where it ends but who doesn’t have curiosity about when the helicopter lands and the 6 survivors are treated like the major news story of the
day (and the new year) which of course they would be. And the 2 kids reunited with their parents and Manny makes it to Israel to see his grandchild.
There should have been a big gush of air from the ship to the outside. The pressure in a capsized ship would be higher than atmospheric pressure. I saw this movie when I was about 10 years old and could never figure why the pressures would be the same.
I've always thought the same, both in this and the remake. Given the trapped air, the air pressure inside would be far greater than outside. For the same reason, the trapped air would prevent it from sinking, it could float like that for a good while, but then would sink fairly quickly once holes are cut in it. Both the blast of air and this causing it to sink would present problems for rescuers on how to get survivors out.
The edges of the metal they're climbing through would also be a little sizzling
@Quill Maurer are you forgetting the fact that the top of the ship is now deep underwater? Water pressure would burst open doors and windows on the superstructure aswell as portholes and cause the ship to sink. The sewol ferry experienced this, it capsized from terrible cargo placement and it flooded as water easily burst open windos and doors when the ship started to capsize. It sank. What makes you think a ship with even more windows, doors and portholes, etc and open watertight doors will survive?
Looking at a plasma cutter in action for a full minute in a dark room without getting any damage to the eye is pretty amazing.
I'm afraid that was an acetylene torch. My concern was that the torch would burn off the oxygen before rescue. It happened to survivors trapped on the USS Oklahoma. Some were suffocated trying to get them out.
The Helicopter took off as the ship was about to sink but they cut the sinking out due to it looking rubbish. Then you get beyond the Poseidon adventure (or it's original working title: the poseidon adventure - the search for more money) which makes no sense as the ship was sinking in this movie and at quite a pace but the water kindly holds back and the ship stays afloat long enough to get another movie out of it before it blow-ups.
The fact that the movie ended with the ship not sinking had the Powers That Be convinced Paul Gallico, the author of the original novel, to write a novel sequel to the movie. In the book, Rogo, Rosen and Martin went BACK into the ship for whatever reasons, there they encounter opportunistic pirates, including a team of people who scuba dived into the dining room and scoop jewelry and valuables from the dead. Manly couldn't live without Belle and let himself be killed. The nurse from the movie turned out to have survive the flooding of the bow and etc etc.
I think Mr. Rogo looks back for his wife and the other man who fell into the fire because he blamed him for his wife death, maybe he repented!
Most people today would use the term cruise ship. But in 1972 ocean liner was the usual term and that year you could still cross the Atlantic on the QE2, the SS France, the Rotterdam, and 3 Italian line ships. Some celebrities at the time still preferred ships, I think David Bowie and Dustin Hoffman to name 2. Plus wealthy people with a lot of luggage (and who had the time).
The best movie ever
2005 is a good remake, but 1972 is much better, it's part of my childhood
Survivors list:
1. Mike Rogo
2. Manny Rosen
3. James Martin
4. Nonnie Parry
5. Susan Shelby
6. Robin Shelby
Crew members unable to survive:
1. Acres
2. Belle Rosen
3. Linda Rogo
4. Frank Scott
Actually Belle, Rev. Scott and Linda were passengers.
Surpeb actors
to the degree that they are true to CHRIST.....many will declare...one day... THE PREACHER WAS RIGHT...THAT BEAUTIFUL (sob) WAS RIGHT....it is not too late....... PEACE
Which is better? The 1972 version or the 2006 version
2005 had very good effects, but 1972 had better storyline and more likeable characters, besides makes you feel despair they would feel in that situation since 99% of the movie shows the ship from inside when capsized.
Erik The remake had CG to work with, the 1972 version had to use models. I’d say the 1972 version is way more impressive with the effects since in my opinion the remake just looks like a dated CG disaster movie that you’d find in the dollar bin
Both I also like Kurt Russell
the remake doesn't has any similarities. Even the character was completely different
ofc both but 1972 cuz Queen Mary
Can you imagine Gene Wilder as Mr. Martin?
Sally Kellerman as Linda Rogo?
Petula Clark as Nonnie the pop singer?
They were all original casting choices!!
I figure they wanted Clark to record and sing The Morning After.
Music awesome
i wish the last shot would have shown from the helicopter pov of them taking off from the ship to get a better sense of how the ship was floating in the water.
It was thought about, but due to the fact that they were out of money, they ended with this shot instead.
That thumbnail though lol
The only thing missing is a SECOND wave hitting the ship just as the 6 survivors climb out.
Does a pisspoor sequel count?
Rogo looking back knowing he now has nothing to live for
No. He knew his wife would want him to keep living and eventually enjoy life again.
0:02 Is that a hole behind mr rogo ?
Back when people could act and truly look like they went through trauma. Don’t make like movies like this anymore. 😢
I love, have always loved the incompleteness of this ending. They 'ran out of money" so they couldn't do anything more, but just the six people, lost someone they loved, people they didn't know who worked to save them as well, and they are the ones who survived.
Even Linda Rogo's death. She was absolutely vicious in the book (unnecessarily so) and would have worked just fine as an empty trophy wife of the policeman Borgnine. Her death hurt him, as well as was not what Nonnie was wanting to see. It's just empty.
They strained for some completion there with Red Buttons and Carol Lynley hugging, but that was just glad to be alive, nothing else. All they had, and all we should really have everyday anyway.
They didn't pair up like Noah's Ark at the end of the second movie, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. That's why I have always liked this one. It just topples what the disaster is supposed to be.
Now this makes me not want to get on a boat 🥺😬
I always wished a true sequel with the surviving characters from the first film was done instead of the crappy 79 sequel
Chris Peplinski Well what could have they done, a touching story about PTSD therapy and having to move on with your life after such a tragedy.
Teddy N No I think he’s talking about the unmade sequel about them getting trapped in a tunnel under a mountain.
Why does anyone need a sequel? Does everything have to have a sequel? Story's over, that's all, folks!
@@GlennWH26
Exactly, nothing has ever compared to the first. I don't like sequels at all !
Also why didn’t they just sink the ship normally and why did they need to explode???
I've always wanted to see a happy ending in a disaster movie.
R.I.H Blackbeard The Evil Pirate:(September 21, 1680 - November 22, 1718)
One of the best endings to a disaster film.
My favourite scent from the movie
Midnight Mass Larry Aniel
Poseidin is staying float upside down forever
No, it literally explodes in the sequel lol
@@endermanwithalowercasee oh
@@lionelllinas5834And besides even if it didn’t explode, the ship would have eventually sunk regardless as when the rescue team cut the hole in the ships hull, all the trapped air keeping the ship buoyant and afloat would have escaped, eventually causing it to fully sumerge.
@@SergioFlores-xx4smwell, if they had resealed the hole, they could have parbuckle salvaged her... But given the state of the inside of her, the Poseidon would have been only fit to be broken up for scrap. Because she would be a total constructive loss.
MCHALE!!!!!!!
Tbh the situation that been set up in this original version may not really intensely tragic & lethal compared to 2006 remake but the story dialog, emotion and the character development in this version are on point. Gene may not be badass and didn't have a strength like Dylan from the remake one but he is still a life saver no matter what he sacrifice for and has great character personality imo. That's what make me adore his characteristic even more even if he died at the end of the movie
At 1:44 the guy said "how many of you down there"
Yep, he sure did. Pretty self explanatory lol
Really? I thought he was quoting the major works of Shakespeare. Thanks for clearing that up!!
@@SciTrekMan Shakespeare? I think he was just asking the question about survivors. I don't think even a tragic quote from Shakespeare would be appropriate or appreciated by the survivors at that time
2:18 I see a future for these two 💕
We were supposed to think that way. She was luckier than Susan, who lost the pastor.
Im staying on the land.
2:13
Homer: Oh my god, the ship was upside down.
If any of you guys were on a ship how would you feel by leaving your loved ones behind
That ranks right up there.
I would be devastated. But they’d want us to live.
If I was on a ship like that I'd be upset if I left my loved one behind
Great disaster movie. Unfortunate though that they would only test one part of the ship for survivors before rapidly taking off on a helicopter! 'Are there any other survivors?' 'No'. 'Ok then' !
lots of comments about more choppers.
I like this movie, but the physics of what happened to the ship would be all but imposiible.(seawater would be pouring though the ballroom skylight right away)
But lets say it's accurate. Nobody would re enter the ship to search it as by the look of the flooding as they made their way up, it could sink @ any moment. Therefore any further choppers & recue boats would be irrellivent to the story.
0:12
When everybody got on the choppa all i could do is clap
A Roman Catholic Deacon
The air pressure inside the hull would blow them out of the hole.
Much different from the book.
1:22 why was he looking back
His wife died she fell
His wife died in that fire, five minutes before, in that chamber behind them. He’s realizing they were very close to both surviving - and he’s crushed over losing her.
Also for Reverend Scott, realizing with much guilt Reverend was right all along, and that the three were so close surviving together.
What about the captain and the crew
Captain Harrison, Mr Linarcos, and the rest of the bridge crew were drowned when the bridge was flooded. Joe and his engineering team were killed when the engine room was pretty much wrecked in the capsizing. The Purser was killed when the dining room flooded. The chefs and other kitchen staff died in the capsizing from burns, scalding, and blunt force trauma. As for the stewards and other personnel, they were killed in the capsizing too. Dr. Caravello and the nurse that was with him and those other passengers headed to the bow probably drowned, along with John the other priest, who drowned in the flooding of the dining room. 😢
And I forgot that Sparks was killed by drowning too, when the radio shack flooded while he was sending the mayday call!
@@mikegallant811 in the book it said that the doctor and the nurse and the other passengers survived cuz there was an second hole out but since this is a movie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wouldnt have sink the ship immediately if they open the hull? It was the last pocket of air in the ships hull.
well no they weren't at the back of the stern completely and in beyond the poseidon adventure there were still alot of spaces not flooded
What happened to the ship?
Turned over by a tsunami wave.
It exploded in the next film.
@@jackhollandthe3800 That's very funny. LOL. I am cracking up over your comment. LOL
@@Wixom2200 I mean, he is telling the truth. That is exactly what happens in the second movie lol
They were gonna have it sink in this scene originally but it apparently looked awful and they didn’t want to go over budget reshooting it so they just ended it here.
The hull is just 1 inch thick?
Propeller shaft is the thinnest part of ship
French Coast Guard Captain: How Many Of You Down There?
Martin: 6
French Coast Guard Captain: Is That All?
Me: Yes, What A Stupid Question
Funny thing is that in the book, by Paul Galico, there was a massive group of survivors rescued from the bow.
@@jackhollandthe3800 well Jack you got to remember something Buddy in the original work the Poseidon even though it was upside down was still on a pretty even keel until the end but in this movie unfortunately she was settling by the bow and the bow was under water and Dr caravello and those that were with him probably drowned.
@@mikegallant811 You're right.
I like the 2005 one
Nobody else? Ok. We don't need to investigate.
There's no way they can flip the ship back. So it just sink.
Aspect ray-shee-oh.
Wait did ship sink?
Not until the next movie. It exploded from boilers and plutonium.
As-pect ray-shee-oh.
So this one didn't sink? Well must have been made better.
Do you know why it didn’t sink So we can have a sequel
@@thatcoolguy6773 Oh so there was a squeal.
@@pugtie4695 yeah it’s called Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
@@thatcoolguy6773 actually in the book, the SS Poseidon was supposed to sink in the end but I don’t think they had the budget to sink the ship at the end. The sequel wasn’t originally gonna be set in the ship, it was supposed to be set in a collapsed train tunnel
we re saved yay
Beautiful ending, rescued by the Russians!
Actually I think those fellas were French.
Yep, the French Coast Guard
I did not like Ernest Borgnine's character at all.
L.C.A lawsuits Nation U.S.A.
The hull looks so fake.
It's a model
@@chrysler238 Painting - in this scene. Helicopter was a ways behind it.