@@seandoherty8754 The stunt men and women from the Disaster movies of the 70's are unsung heroes because without them none of these films would of been possible. All they work they did made this film genre believable.
I've seen this so many times I can't count them..but I never noticed that! It's one of my favs always will be. Very captivating for a 9 year old boy back then watching it on the big screen.
That, in fact, was the beginning of Ernie Orsati's career as a movie stuntman. Made him instantly famous, especially as it was in the trailers for the movie. EVERYBODY remembers that fall.
I Remember Watching this Movie in My Secondary School at Christmas time for Movie Day back in the 1980s , one of my favourite childhood Movies. Happy Memories ❤.
The stuntman was Ernie Orsatti. They put pads on him under his tux, lifted him up with a cherry picker and let him hang from the table as they did the shot. There was a hole cut in the "floor" above with a camera to get the top-down view. The glass was made of crystalized sugar, which breaks easily, and there was a lot of padding underneath it. It was still very dangerous, as he could have snapped his neck had he falled the wrong way.
The original will always be classic. The effects may be considered outdated and cheap, but they are still more realistic than what you can do with CGI nowadays.
@@lipsticklb Using a model of the Queen Mary and by having the actual actors doing most of their own stunts is what makes this scene believable. You forget that these are just actors and stunt people and instead that these are actual people who are in serious danger.
I am so glad this is on RUclips, no CGI to make this film great...all good hard work and a great script to go with it. Glad to see Fred Sadoff (Linarcos) in this video, he may have not had many lines in the movie. But, what a hunk...at least to me. Mrs. L.
Me too! I never forgot the scene when they got into the kitchen and there's that burned guy standing up and Gene Hackman puts his jacket over the corpse. Talk about a bad memory for a kid! Still remember it to this day.
The tables were bolted down, the chairs were secured in place via elastic tethers that allowed for them to be moved slightly, but not to go flying across the room in the event of a sudden roll. If you watch the movie, you'll notice several chairs can be seen hanging from the capsized floor by these tethers.
@@SignalsOverTheAir The Drive In theater experience was the place to be in the 70's. I spent that decade at the Drive In every Friday/Saturday nite. The movies 🍿 shown were Block busters , as they were called back down. At the premieres , you would receive a keepsake magazine of the movie... the late night movies would show "Adult" movies. My last drive in movie was 1984 Footloose. Months later a tornado would close the Drive in . Thanks for your comment and interest 😃
@@ScottRandolph-dd7dr I didn't think drive-in's showed blockbuster films, I thought they were solely b-movies, horror, and comedies as that's what teens mostly wanted to see, especially if they were there for date nights. Twister basically ended you're drive-in experience, foreshadowing what was to come 12 years later.
@@SignalsOverTheAir yes, l guess that is true about Twister. 😂 1996, saw that on our ,at that time, new curved screen and surround sound at our indoor theater. Sadly, Katrina in 2005,would take it. Sir, the drive in experience was a wonderful time full of memories.
@@ScottRandolph-dd7dr Two natural disasters taking out both theaters, 21 years apart that's some unlucky area you live in. I've heard a lot about the drive-in experience from my parents over the years. By the 90's, the drive-in's time had come to an end so they weren't around much, especially here in Northern Virginia were if there's a tree; it's chopped down and an apartment building now take it's place.
She did the underwater rescue of Gene Hackman, but not anything in the capsizing scene, none of the main actors did anything in the famous scene; stunt men and women did it all. If re-watch you'll see that Stella Stevens and Gene Hackman are holding each other before rolling over the table, but right as they roll they've been replaced by look like stunt actors.
for those interested, the ship used in sone scenes, the aerial view and diningroom were of the liner "Queen Mary" now the hotel queen mary in california.
I lived for this movie when I was a kid! I was 9 yrs old when it came out, and we would play-act the movie all the time. Definately a classic and much better than the oiece of crap remake that came out last summer- really apiece of garbage w/ no plot, no empathy for the characters , etc!
hey, I use to play act this movie too. I would walk along the edge of the swimming pool and try not to fall in the pool which equals death. Or, take my sister stuffed animals and pile them on the bed then flip the mattress and see who would survive the capsize.
9 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS. DESERVING WINNER FOR BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS AND BEST ORIGINAL SONG "THE MORNING AFTER". SHELLEY WINTERS SHOULD HAVE WON HER 3RD OSCAR AS BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS.
The film had 8 nominations, not 9. Yes, Shelley should have and Ernest Borgnine should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor as well. If The Godfather hadn't come out the same year as Poseidon it probably had a better chance at winning Best Picture.
@@SignalsOverTheAir Wait a minute. Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. Best Art Direction / Set Decoration. Best Costume Design. Best Sound. Best Film Editing Best Dramatic Score. Best Cinematography. THAT WOULD BE 7 NOMINATIONS. Add the two wins for Best Original Song and Best Special Visual Effects. 7 + 2 = 9 NOMINATIONS.
@@SignalsOverTheAir O.K. then. So it's 9 categories, 8 nominations and 2 wins ??? Doesn't a movie have to be first nominated before it can finally win, even for a special award ?? Anyway, I consider Ernest Borgnine as a co-lead actor with Gene Hackman. Red Buttons and Jack Albertson are my deserving candidates in the Best Supporting Actor race while Stella Stevens should have been nominated with Shelley Winters in the Best Supporting Actress category.
@@chazarcola7639 The Special Achievement Award was created just for The Poseidon Adventure because of it's visual effects. This award isn't given out every year and it's not just for effects, it's been awarded for sound effects editing, animation director for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1998), Toy Story (1995) for being the first computer animated film, and in 2017 for VR (Virtual Reality) for a short called Flesh And Sand, it was the first special achievement award given out since Toy Story. Gene was running the whole show, as he came up with the plan of escaping, Ernest was a reluctant partner to Gene which would make him a supporting character. Red Buttons and Jack Albertson are good the film, but not worthy of being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in my opinion. Jack should have been nominated for his role as Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka. Stella's Linda is certainly memorable, but not enough for a Best Actress nomination though, yelling at Ernest for the entire film isn't going to get you the nomination where as Shelley's underwater rescue is how she earned it instead.
1,400 were originally on aboard when it set sail from New York City, only 6 survived at the end of the original film and if you count 1979's Beyond The Poseidon Adventure another 4 for a total of just 10 survivors in all.
They filmed this scene using two sets--the complete ballroom and a smaller portion of the ballroom. The smaller set was lifted up by a forklift do get the tilting effect. Otherwise, the capsizing was all done via rotating the camera and having the actors/stunt people hurl themselves around the ballroom set. The ballroom was designed so they could easily reverse the ceiling and floor tiles to make it upside-down.
If you watch the movie and see subsequent scenes of the movie in the ballroom, you will notice chairs hanging upside down from the ceiling from the tethers. The reason most of the chairs get thrown around is that there are people crashing into them. :)
@@blossomroblox9315 You're talking about modern-day cruise ships, which aren't intended to sail in open ocean with heavy seas. The S.S. Poseidon in this film is based on old 20th century Transatlantic ocean liners (they used a model of the RMS Queen Mary for the exterior, which was built in the 1930s), and those liners definitely had tables bolted down and tethered chairs, since it was much more likely they would experience heavy rolling seas in the open ocean.
on many of the older ocean liners ( the Poseiden was a direct copy of the Queen Mary ) many chairs where starpeed to the floor by a sort of industrial sise ' rubber- band" that pervented them from moving in rough seas. Much of the technological advanncements in terms of stabilizers that are installed on the newer liners did not exists, ergo the need for bolting everything down, I didn't learn of this myself until recently.
A ship being hit by a wave that large is very rare, next to impossible to happening in real life. If this were to happen with today's cruise liners, it would very unlikely capsize, it still would be extremely rough on the passengers though.
Just from reading up on it on the web. I've been a long-time fan of the film. :) And I have no idea who the blue-dress lady is, but she's one of the favorite extras among Poseidon Adventure fans because her demise is unfortunate...
"Sparks...mayday!" "Mayday!?" "Yes, mayday...and i'd like you to know...that were all counting on you." Before wave hits...calls back to operater. "And i'd like you to know...that were all counting on you..."
You can watch this scene and other clips from the movie in HD, just search for them. The quality isn't great because this was ripped from the 2006 special edition DVD for a then project I was making in high school.
I totally agree with you. CGI has taken it's place to the next level. Is it replacing all the stunts? I've seen stunts in action at Universal Theme park in Orlando. It is incredible. And yes, they have to act!
@@brianmerritt5410 The Poseidon was an older ship and by taking a direct hit head on it would have done serious damage to the bow. Also the captain and everyone else on the bridge would have still drown from the bridge flooding when the wave smashed in through the windows regardless.
@@cunard61 I didn't write the screen play, but it looks like everything happened so fast that there wasn't enough time for the captain to properly think straight. I don't think it would have matter which way the ship turned anyways, as it was going to get hit by the wave regardless, also if the ship didn't capsize then there'd be no story and no film.
Why did the captain sound the lifeboat stations alarm if he knew the ship would capsize? If you see the full movie, many people fail to realize that the Captain was being pushed by ships owner to make it to its destination on time. Just like on the Titanic.
Right before the clip started, the captain looked through the binoculars and saw the wave coming towards the ship. He ordered that the ship make a hard left and to close all water tight doors as well. The captain most likely thought by doing this the Poseidon had a greater chance of surviving the impact of the wave and that it would then be enough time to evacuate all the passengers before it most likely would of sank.
Yes you could easily say that Mr Linarcos is basically the Greek version of J. Bruce Ismay (and by the way that is not an indictment of Greek folks they can be some of the nicest people in the world and they got one hell of a great cuisine!).
This movie is what changed my mind about going on a Cruise Ship. And they didn't show the scene where the Captain looked out with his binoculars and saw the Wave Coming and how huge it was before it hit. Yep I said No Way Jose to taking a Cruise.
The chances of this happening on a cruise is very slim, you'd die from a shark attack or in a car crash before a tidal wave ever would. This is a scene that I ripped from the special edition DVD for a project when I was back in high school, it was to make a trailer for a favorite film of ours.
I don't get into the Die Hard debate, it's an action movie and that's where I leave it. Both Poseidon and Die Hard are movies you can watch all year round.
A disaster movie of this type would not hold water (pardon the pun) without great actors and this one had them in abundance. They were truly irreplaceable and are all gone except maybe Pamela Sue Martin (lost track of her but shouldn't have - my bad!).
The Disaster movies of the 70's were all about the large casts of Hollywood legends of old and new. Pamela Sue Martin, Eric Shea, and Gene Hackman are the only ones left of the main cast.
Dining room chairs on older ships were tethered to the floor by cords underneath. In the movie, some chairs and table were torn loose by the impact of people and other objects sliding across the floor.
I saw parts of this movie as a kid, but I could barely remember anything from it besides the ship being upside down. I didn't properly see it all the way through until I bought it on VHS in 1998 or 1999.
Ocean liners often had some furniture bolted to the deck. The Queen Mary had the dining room chairs attached to the deck and even the chairs had ropes bolted so they not move off if the ship hit a strong storm which can happen on the North Atlantic.
You can watch it here on RUclips where it says Watch On RUclips or you can stream it on either Amazon or Hulu, I think Netflix doesn't have it. It's also on DVD and Blu-ray for under $10.00 as well.
because they just took the picture from the ceiling to the floor when the ship is capsizing everything are messed up but when it capsized already the floor is arranged and not messed up I'M TALKING ABOUT THE FLOOR NOT THE CEILING WHICH THEY STEPPED ON WHEN THE SHIP CAPSIZED and the tables and chairs did not stick to the ceiling but they sticked on the floor
Several others have asked about the table and chairs. From what I've been told by others and researched myself, ocean liners like the Poseidon had their dining tables and chairs usually anchored to the floor so that when the weather was rough they wouldn't slide around.
@@Perich29 Holland America is a cruise ship, whereas the Poseidon is an ocean liner. The difference between the two ships is that cruise ships are for entertainment and relaxing while ocean liners are older and there main purpose was that they were built for speed. Holland America is a modern ship and is designed to make sure tables and chairs wont usually slide around or fall over during rough weather.
Gene Hackman and Stella Stevens didn't roll over the table, their stunt stand-in's did, as you don't see her face as they roll over and the guy's face you briefly do see isn't Gene's. Rolling over a table seems pretty easy to do, but I guess even back then something the actors could easily do themselves was better suited for the stand-in's to do instead just incase something went wrong they got injured.
I havent seen much of this movie yet but so far i prefer poseiden more until ive seen this one it looks cool and yes usually the origional usually rules over sequals
"Com, get off a mayday!!!"
"Mayday sir? What is it?"
"It's a spring holiday, but that's not important right now!"
The Poseidon Adventure as Airplane! would be interesting.
You could only truly appeciate this film at the theater when it premiered. All time fav!
Saw it in the theater as a 12 year-old, all I appreciated was Stella Stevens' rack. Magnificent!
Best Movie,Best Acting,Best Everything! This Movie Had Heart!!!
One of the best Movie special effects scenes of all time!
I couldn't agree more. CGI is good, but a model ship and several tons of water still look realistic 46 years later.
@@SignalsOverTheAir Amen to that! cant beat old school model & stunt work. Still looks great 30 years after I watched it!
@@seandoherty8754 The stunt men and women from the Disaster movies of the 70's are unsung heroes because without them none of these films would of been possible. All they work they did made this film genre believable.
@@SignalsOverTheAir absolutely 👍
For it's time sure, but this scene looks a little silly now. You can tell they are running sideways lol.
I've seen this so many times I can't count them..but I never noticed that! It's one of my favs always will be. Very captivating for a 9 year old boy back then watching it on the big screen.
I always play this on New Year's Eve. Who's with me?
Not me, but I have seen this film be on several lists of best movies to watch on New Year's Eve.
Again for 2021
AND ME, TOO.
I actually watch this on New Year's Day.
...after 35 years, this is still one of my favorite movies!
Lol
i watch it as a kid in TV back in 1983
Abandon Ship!
After more then 50 its still my favorite others don't compare
better than the 2006 version.
2:17 the guy falling into the skylight stunt still holds up
You could do that shot with CGI, but it would look fake though.
That's Ernie Orsati
@@mjt2231 RIP Ernie.
That, in fact, was the beginning of Ernie Orsati's career as a movie stuntman. Made him instantly famous, especially as it was in the trailers for the movie. EVERYBODY remembers that fall.
@@SignalsOverTheAir He should be an electrician he messed up the whole electricity by doing that.
I still think that the original is by far the best version of this story.
I think it's the best version overall, but the newer effects do look more real and scary. You can tell these people are running sideways lol.
This scene freaked me the F out as a child !!
It's very well done.
It scared the hell out of me & then years later sailing on the new Queen Mary 2 . I always had this in the back of my mind . Crazy !!!
The movie screams: "1972" - the year I was born. That´s so cool!
They don't have actors like Hackman and Borgnine nowadays.
No they don't, their talent for acting is something Hollywood wishes they had now.
Today they are called Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep!
Sadly missed
RIP Carol Lynley 1942 - 2019 😭
*1949
I Remember Watching this Movie in My Secondary School at Christmas time for Movie Day back in the 1980s , one of my favourite childhood Movies.
Happy Memories ❤.
Interesting choice of viewing to be watching as a kid.
The stuntman was Ernie Orsatti. They put pads on him under his tux, lifted him up with a cherry picker and let him hang from the table as they did the shot. There was a hole cut in the "floor" above with a camera to get the top-down view. The glass was made of crystalized sugar, which breaks easily, and there was a lot of padding underneath it. It was still very dangerous, as he could have snapped his neck had he falled the wrong way.
A 1970's classic that came out when I wasn't even born yet.
The same to you.
This is by far superior than the 2006 "Poseidon"... more intense and excelently made ;)
As an overall movie, this one had better characters, but the 2006 one had scarier situations and more real looking action.
@@brianmerritt5410 I’d agree minus the ship righting itself as it sank and the explosion raising the bow.
I hate it when that old lady dies, I always cry...*sigh* still better than the new one.
This ain’t better than the new one I mean it’s a classic but u can tell the set isn’t actually capsizing the new effects and stuff look better
Nothing will ever compare.
The original will always be classic. The effects may be considered outdated and cheap, but they are still more realistic than what you can do with CGI nowadays.
+SignalsOverTheAir
That's the beauty of it. It's real.
@@lipsticklb Using a model of the Queen Mary and by having the actual actors doing most of their own stunts is what makes this scene believable. You forget that these are just actors and stunt people and instead that these are actual people who are in serious danger.
Something will try to compare every now and then.
watched this for the first time today, I was planning on sleeping through it but I got hooked!
I am so glad this is on RUclips, no CGI to make this film great...all good hard work and a great script to go with it. Glad to see Fred Sadoff (Linarcos) in this video, he may have not had many lines in the movie. But, what a hunk...at least to me. Mrs. L.
They used the real Queen Mary, but when filming on the "inside" they built sets.
Saw it in the theater with my dad when I was ten. Scared the crap out of me.
Good special effects can do that to a person.
Me too! I never forgot the scene when they got into the kitchen and there's that burned guy standing up and Gene Hackman puts his jacket over the corpse. Talk about a bad memory for a kid! Still remember it to this day.
The tables were bolted down, the chairs were secured in place via elastic tethers that allowed for them to be moved slightly, but not to go flying across the room in the event of a sudden roll. If you watch the movie, you'll notice several chairs can be seen hanging from the capsized floor by these tethers.
Those paper New Years Eve hats are the best!
😮 I saw this in 1972 at the Drive In theater. One of the Best disaster movies 🍿 ever made. Retro greetings from coastal Mississippi 🐻🧔👋😎🤠
I thought drive-in's only showed horror/sci-fi and comedies, as drive-in's were mostly aimed for teenagers by the time of the 70's.
@@SignalsOverTheAir The Drive In theater experience was the place to be in the 70's. I spent that decade at the Drive In every Friday/Saturday nite. The movies 🍿 shown were Block busters , as they were called back down. At the premieres , you would receive a keepsake magazine of the movie... the late night movies would show "Adult" movies. My last drive in movie was 1984 Footloose. Months later a tornado would close the Drive in . Thanks for your comment and interest 😃
@@ScottRandolph-dd7dr I didn't think drive-in's showed blockbuster films, I thought they were solely b-movies, horror, and comedies as that's what teens mostly wanted to see, especially if they were there for date nights. Twister basically ended you're drive-in experience, foreshadowing what was to come 12 years later.
@@SignalsOverTheAir yes, l guess that is true about Twister. 😂 1996, saw that on our ,at that time, new curved screen and surround sound at our indoor theater. Sadly, Katrina in 2005,would take it. Sir, the drive in experience was a wonderful time full of memories.
@@ScottRandolph-dd7dr Two natural disasters taking out both theaters, 21 years apart that's some unlucky area you live in. I've heard a lot about the drive-in experience from my parents over the years. By the 90's, the drive-in's time had come to an end so they weren't around much, especially here in Northern Virginia were if there's a tree; it's chopped down and an apartment building now take it's place.
This movie is straight up horrifying. No special effects were really needed to make it look real and possible.
The original is more believable than both the 2005 mini-series and 2006 remake.
Shelley Winters performed her own stunts.
She did the underwater rescue of Gene Hackman, but not anything in the capsizing scene, none of the main actors did anything in the famous scene; stunt men and women did it all. If re-watch you'll see that Stella Stevens and Gene Hackman are holding each other before rolling over the table, but right as they roll they've been replaced by look like stunt actors.
for those interested, the ship used in sone scenes, the aerial view and diningroom were of the liner "Queen Mary" now the hotel queen mary in california.
Yes. It's in the harbor across from downtown Long Beach - need a shuttle boat to get to it. Took all day to see it all. .
The chairs are apparently nailed to the floor.
Omg loved this film one of my favorite disaster movies!
It's my favorite as well.
I lived for this movie when I was a kid! I was 9 yrs old when it came out, and we would play-act the movie all the time. Definately a classic and much better than the oiece of crap remake that came out last summer- really apiece of garbage w/ no plot, no empathy for the characters , etc!
hey, I use to play act this movie too. I would walk along the edge of the swimming pool and try not to fall in the pool which equals death. Or, take my sister stuffed animals and pile them on the bed then flip the mattress and see who would survive the capsize.
@@haveanicedave1551 LOL !!! I love the idea of flipping the mattress with stuffed animals and seeing *who* survives- way too funny !!!
Some of my friends on our block play acted this in our garage. Messed it all up, of course I got into trouble for it! 😄
9 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS.
DESERVING WINNER FOR BEST SPECIAL
VISUAL EFFECTS AND BEST ORIGINAL SONG "THE MORNING AFTER".
SHELLEY WINTERS SHOULD HAVE WON HER 3RD OSCAR AS BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS.
The film had 8 nominations, not 9. Yes, Shelley should have and Ernest Borgnine should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor as well. If The Godfather hadn't come out the same year as Poseidon it probably had a better chance at winning Best Picture.
@@SignalsOverTheAir Wait a minute.
Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. Best Art Direction / Set Decoration.
Best Costume Design. Best Sound.
Best Film Editing Best Dramatic Score.
Best Cinematography. THAT WOULD BE
7 NOMINATIONS. Add the two wins for
Best Original Song and Best Special Visual Effects. 7 + 2 = 9 NOMINATIONS.
@@chazarcola7639 Best Visual Effects was an Special Achievement award that was given to the film, it wasn't nominated for it.
@@SignalsOverTheAir O.K. then.
So it's 9 categories, 8 nominations
and 2 wins ??? Doesn't a movie have
to be first nominated before it can
finally win, even for a special award ??
Anyway, I consider Ernest Borgnine as
a co-lead actor with Gene Hackman.
Red Buttons and Jack Albertson are my deserving candidates in the Best Supporting Actor race while Stella Stevens should have been nominated with Shelley Winters in the Best Supporting Actress category.
@@chazarcola7639 The Special Achievement Award was created just for The Poseidon Adventure because of it's visual effects. This award isn't given out every year and it's not just for effects, it's been awarded for sound effects editing, animation director for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1998), Toy Story (1995) for being the first computer animated film, and in 2017 for VR (Virtual Reality) for a short called Flesh And Sand, it was the first special achievement award given out since Toy Story.
Gene was running the whole show, as he came up with the plan of escaping, Ernest was a reluctant partner to Gene which would make him a supporting character. Red Buttons and Jack Albertson are good the film, but not worthy of being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in my opinion. Jack should have been nominated for his role as Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka. Stella's Linda is certainly memorable, but not enough for a Best Actress nomination though, yelling at Ernest for the entire film isn't going to get you the nomination where as Shelley's underwater rescue is how she earned it instead.
Anyone who goes on a cruise ship captained by Leslie Neilsen deserve everything they get...
Right. Call him Captain Frank Drebin!
One of the best fims of the great 70ies! Great story, great actors!
Yes, it is along with Airport, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno.
R.I.P To All People Who Died On The Poseidon Ship
1,400 were originally on aboard when it set sail from New York City, only 6 survived at the end of the original film and if you count 1979's Beyond The Poseidon Adventure another 4 for a total of just 10 survivors in all.
@@SignalsOverTheAir1400? I think 200-300
@@gianlucaguidotti5234 The theatrical trailer said 1,400 were on aboard.
@@SignalsOverTheAir Ah ok. If i see the movie I think 200-300 but ok
@@gianlucaguidotti5234 About 200 passengers were in the ballroom for the New Years eve celebration.
They filmed this scene using two sets--the complete ballroom and a smaller portion of the ballroom. The smaller set was lifted up by a forklift do get the tilting effect. Otherwise, the capsizing was all done via rotating the camera and having the actors/stunt people hurl themselves around the ballroom set. The ballroom was designed so they could easily reverse the ceiling and floor tiles to make it upside-down.
This movie is very cool
Yes it is
If you watch the movie and see subsequent scenes of the movie in the ballroom, you will notice chairs hanging upside down from the ceiling from the tethers. The reason most of the chairs get thrown around is that there are people crashing into them. :)
On ocean liners, chairs were tethered to fasteners on the floor to prevent them from going flying if the ship encountered a heavy roll at sea.
Not according to the Costa Concordia and the Viking cruise ship that was caught in the storm
@@blossomroblox9315 You're talking about modern-day cruise ships, which aren't intended to sail in open ocean with heavy seas. The S.S. Poseidon in this film is based on old 20th century Transatlantic ocean liners (they used a model of the RMS Queen Mary for the exterior, which was built in the 1930s), and those liners definitely had tables bolted down and tethered chairs, since it was much more likely they would experience heavy rolling seas in the open ocean.
Mark Decker true
on many of the older ocean liners ( the Poseiden was a direct copy of the Queen Mary ) many chairs where starpeed to the floor by a sort of industrial sise ' rubber- band" that pervented them from moving in rough seas. Much of the technological advanncements in terms of stabilizers that are installed on the newer liners did not exists, ergo the need for bolting everything down, I didn't learn of this myself until recently.
"Starpeed"?
my mother is 10 years old when she saw this movie i really love this than any remake
I appreciate the capsizing in both versions, but I must say that the "fake" falling is more convincing than computer graphics any day.
And people ask me why I would never go on a cruise ship. Gee, maybe bc I've watched this movie everytime it came on tv back in the 90's.
A ship being hit by a wave that large is very rare, next to impossible to happening in real life. If this were to happen with today's cruise liners, it would very unlikely capsize, it still would be extremely rough on the passengers though.
@@SignalsOverTheAir eff that, I want to die. BUT NOT LIKE THIS, lol
Just from reading up on it on the web. I've been a long-time fan of the film. :) And I have no idea who the blue-dress lady is, but she's one of the favorite extras among Poseidon Adventure fans because her demise is unfortunate...
Shelley Winters. Oscar winner twice.
@@weavermuto Not her! The blonde lady in the blue dress who falls over the railing. Winters is in a brown dress of course. :)
@@markdecker7489 Yeah, it's kinda cool how she just tumbles over the railing, almost like poetry in motion.
I saw it 12 times when it came out
12 times!!! So you helped contribute to the film staying at number one for almost 3 months straight then.
2:21 love that sound effect.
Don't know why....
That's the sound of the ship settling it's-self and the power going out after capsizing.
My fav scene
Without this scene there'd be no movie.
Chairs on ships are often anchored down with a strap of elastic to keep them from upsetting in rough seas.
"Sparks...mayday!"
"Mayday!?"
"Yes, mayday...and i'd like you to know...that were all counting on you."
Before wave hits...calls back to operater.
"And i'd like you to know...that were all counting on you..."
Surely you can't be serious?
Would you mind waiting outside?
Mayday will provide you with a drink.
I was 10 I used to kartwheel down my aunts front room with my cousins I LOVE IT 😂😂❤
Fun, hope none of you got tangled up though.
Best Capsizing Ever
I wish the quality was HD :( but I still like this
You can watch this scene and other clips from the movie in HD, just search for them. The quality isn't great because this was ripped from the 2006 special edition DVD for a then project I was making in high school.
I know but I still like this
@@JakeyGaming2027 Thanks
I think they just had too much to drink.
Underrated comment
Sorry for repeating myself. But this is why never went on a cruise ship. I want to die, BUT NOT LIKE THIS
The chances of this happening today are very slim, you'll be killed by a cow or shark before a tidal wave were to capsize a ship these days.
Best. Disaster. Movie. Ever.
Thank You People and Tusmani for Watching
um ok
I totally agree with you. CGI has taken it's place to the next level. Is it replacing all the stunts? I've seen stunts in action at Universal Theme park in Orlando. It is incredible. And yes, they have to act!
I love this movie its so cool
Yes it is.
The ship was turning, not tipping, the captain thought by turning the ship around they would avoid the tidalwave.
If he turned it into the wave there would be less damage
@@brianmerritt5410 The Poseidon was an older ship and by taking a direct hit head on it would have done serious damage to the bow. Also the captain and everyone else on the bridge would have still drown from the bridge flooding when the wave smashed in through the windows regardless.
You always turn the ship bow first into the wave. Even if the wave is taller than ship, you never let such a massive wave hit a ship broadside.
@@cunard61 I didn't write the screen play, but it looks like everything happened so fast that there wasn't enough time for the captain to properly think straight. I don't think it would have matter which way the ship turned anyways, as it was going to get hit by the wave regardless, also if the ship didn't capsize then there'd be no story and no film.
I watched this before going on a cruise 😅
That's a recurring thing with this film apparently.
90% SFX, 10% Acting.
Why did the captain sound the lifeboat stations alarm if he knew the ship would capsize? If you see the full movie, many people fail to realize that the Captain was being pushed by ships owner to make it to its destination on time. Just like on the Titanic.
Right before the clip started, the captain looked through the binoculars and saw the wave coming towards the ship. He ordered that the ship make a hard left and to close all water tight doors as well. The captain most likely thought by doing this the Poseidon had a greater chance of surviving the impact of the wave and that it would then be enough time to evacuate all the passengers before it most likely would of sank.
Yes you could easily say that Mr Linarcos is basically the Greek version of J. Bruce Ismay (and by the way that is not an indictment of Greek folks they can be some of the nicest people in the world and they got one hell of a great cuisine!).
THE PIANO!!!!!
The piano isn't going to escape from gravity, the chairs and tables yes, but not the piano.
This movie is what changed my mind about going on a Cruise Ship. And they didn't show the scene where the Captain looked out with his binoculars and saw the Wave Coming and how huge it was before it hit. Yep I said No Way Jose to taking a Cruise.
The chances of this happening on a cruise is very slim, you'd die from a shark attack or in a car crash before a tidal wave ever would. This is a scene that I ripped from the special edition DVD for a project when I was back in high school, it was to make a trailer for a favorite film of ours.
27 movie extras were killed in this scene. They really took films seriously in the 1970's.
Nobody died during the making of this film.
Die Hard is the Christmas movie...The Poseidon Adventure is the New Years Movie!!!
I don't get into the Die Hard debate, it's an action movie and that's where I leave it. Both Poseidon and Die Hard are movies you can watch all year round.
Ghost Buster 2 is one of the great New Years Movie as well.
Dir hard 2 is the Christmas sequel.
The stunt is soo cool
The backwards fall is a memorable moment.
@@SignalsOverTheAir yeah
Never thought about it. But why are the chairs nailed into the floor?
Chairs were anchored to the floor back then so that they wouldn't slide around during rough weather.
The chairs were magnitized to stick to the floors of oceaner's back then.
Not magnets. Tethers.
A disaster movie of this type would not hold water (pardon the pun) without great actors and this one had them in abundance. They were truly irreplaceable and are all gone except maybe Pamela Sue Martin (lost track of her but shouldn't have - my bad!).
The Disaster movies of the 70's were all about the large casts of Hollywood legends of old and new. Pamela Sue Martin, Eric Shea, and Gene Hackman are the only ones left of the main cast.
Had a huge cast!
Not just a huge cast, but all Academy award winners and nominees.
Did you see the bathroom scene? Everything was upside down! lol
oops, somebody left the water running.
I agree the remake was a little too graphic for me. this one is done in a more campy fashion!
But then the rest of the movie is very serious, thisis the only scene with silly effects.
New Years Eve 1972, going into 1973!!
I think it was 1971 going into 1972 instead.
Live and Let die the same year.
Dining room chairs on older ships were tethered to the floor by cords underneath. In the movie, some chairs and table were torn loose by the impact of people and other objects sliding across the floor.
Everyone’s screams sound so fake, I love it😂
Those are actual screams compared to the fake ones that are used in films and TV shows now.
SignalsOverTheAir i just find this entire scene to be hysterical, the screams are so over the top
@@foxboi327 If you were in that same scenario you'd be screaming just the same.
@@foxboi327 I would be screaming just has much I would of had the same scream as the woman falling off the light fitting.
@@SignalsOverTheAir probably. Idk I just found it funny
i remember seeing this on tv one christmas, this freaked me out so much as a child
I saw parts of this movie as a kid, but I could barely remember anything from it besides the ship being upside down. I didn't properly see it all the way through until I bought it on VHS in 1998 or 1999.
no one could have counterbalance a freakin tidal wave dude
Shelley Winters could've kept the ship from capsizing...if only better use had been made of her tremendous influence.
Comment section summary: 90% chairs stuck to floor, 9% this movie great, 1% Shelley Winters jokes. You're welcome.
No one has said any Shelly Winters jokes.
uhhh mabey because their connected to the floor?
Ah, the 70s. The best dressed stuntmen in Hollywood history.
For Disaster movies at least
@@SignalsOverTheAir yep!
Ocean liners often had some furniture bolted to the deck. The Queen Mary had the dining room chairs attached to the deck and even the chairs had ropes bolted so they not move off if the ship hit a strong storm which can happen on the North Atlantic.
Where can I watch this movie?
You can watch it here on RUclips where it says Watch On RUclips or you can stream it on either Amazon or Hulu, I think Netflix doesn't have it. It's also on DVD and Blu-ray for under $10.00 as well.
Couldn't Shelly Winters just have moved to the other side of the ship? Her weight could have counterbalanced the tidal wave.
because they just took the picture from the ceiling to the floor when the ship is capsizing everything are messed up but when it capsized already the floor is arranged and not messed up I'M TALKING ABOUT THE FLOOR NOT THE CEILING WHICH THEY STEPPED ON WHEN THE SHIP CAPSIZED and the tables and chairs did not stick to the ceiling but they sticked on the floor
The chairs started to move after the ship was on its side.
They didn’t have the necessary technology needed to make all that. During that time.
Who are you responding to?
Ohh really in the TV guide it says 1971, my mistake.
The greatest cast ever assembled after Judgement at Nuremberg first did.
That's quite the praise, but there have been other films before this one that have had such an assembled cast of Hollywood's best stars.
@@SignalsOverTheAir There may have been more, but JAN came to my mind first
I love how Linarcos is basically a dollar store version of J. Bruce Ismay.
Who's that?
@@SignalsOverTheAir, Watch the full movie and he's basically the owner of the line/ship and is pushing Leslie Nielsen to beat their schedule.
@@hhluvzmagik I know who Linarcos is, I don't know who that other person you mentioned.
@@SignalsOverTheAir, Leslie Nielsen (best known for The Naked Gun series) is the captain of the ship.
@@hhluvzmagik I know who he is, who is J. Bruce Ismay?
End of film...pops head out of water...
"And i'd like you to know...that were all counting on you..."
Roger, Roger.
true, but that probrobly won't help if you follow the tilt and a grand piano lands on top of you.
2:14 does these chairs have magnets? the chairs suppose to fall toward the celling light every one elts, but the tables might be bolted to the floors.
Several others have asked about the table and chairs. From what I've been told by others and researched myself, ocean liners like the Poseidon had their dining tables and chairs usually anchored to the floor so that when the weather was rough they wouldn't slide around.
@@SignalsOverTheAir I've been on the Holland American Cruise back in summer of 2019, they don't bolt the chairs to floor in their dining rooms.
@@Perich29 Holland America is a cruise ship, whereas the Poseidon is an ocean liner. The difference between the two ships is that cruise ships are for entertainment and relaxing while ocean liners are older and there main purpose was that they were built for speed. Holland America is a modern ship and is designed to make sure tables and chairs wont usually slide around or fall over during rough weather.
Me too! That's the only reason I searched for this clip on RUclips.
They bolted furniture down on ships back then because they weren't very stable.
Not bolted, but tethered.
I’m in 2020 and this was made in 2006 lol
The movie came out in 1972, I uploaded this clip in 2006.
"Um, Mr. Director, I flubbed my scene where I was rolling on the table with Stella Stevens. Can I try it again?"
Gene Hackman and Stella Stevens didn't roll over the table, their stunt stand-in's did, as you don't see her face as they roll over and the guy's face you briefly do see isn't Gene's. Rolling over a table seems pretty easy to do, but I guess even back then something the actors could easily do themselves was better suited for the stand-in's to do instead just incase something went wrong they got injured.
I havent seen much of this movie yet but so far i prefer poseiden more until ive seen this one it looks cool and yes usually the origional usually rules over sequals