This was the second biggest movie of 1972 right behind The Godfather. I was eight, my buddies and I rode our bikes to the theater on a Saturday afternoon to see The Poseidon Adventure. My friend was at the snack bar getting popcorn just as the tidal wave was about to hit. I ran out to the lobby and yelled tidal wave! There were 50 kids at the snack bar. Like a tidal wave all 50 kids turned and ran back in the theater to see the wave hit! In the seventies it was the best time to be a kid at the movies.
Something about Leslie Nielsen you may or may not know. During this time in his career he was known as a serious actor. He didn't do comedy until Airplane(1980). That's why it was a shock to people when Airplane was first released, they had no idea that he could do that type of comedy.
@donaldseale2700 Leslie Nielson portrayed the romantic lead to Debbie Reynolds and the son of Fay Wray in TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR. Then he was the space captain in FORBIDDEN PLANET 1956 opposite Anne Francis & Walter Pidgeon, plus Robbie the Robot.
I was 12 when this came out. It knocked me down. This movie started my love for the movies. (Jaws clenched it three years later.) Nowadays I can't help picking at it, various moments... but as a whole, it still hits hard. Glad you enjoyed.
The one actor you overlooked was Roddy McDowall as Acres, the steward. He was famous as a child actor and starred in the original Lassie movie. He appeared in many tv dramas in the 50s and on Broadway before joining Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra in the early 60s. He then appeared as Cornelius in the original 1968 Planet of the Apes. He starred in 3 of the sequels and then appeared as a new ape character in the short lived 1974 POTA tv series. Younger audiences know him as Peter Vincent, the "vampire slayer" from 1985s Fright Night and its sequel. The actors did indeed do a majority of their own stunts, especially the underwater corridor scene. I remember watching the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Shelly Winters was a guest. She showed that clip of her underwater rescuing Gene Hackman and you could tell she was very proud of what she had done. The Poseidon Adventure is one of my top 10 favorite movies. I love that younger audiences are enjoying it along with another favorite, The Towering Inferno. No CGI involved, all practical effects and magnificent real sets. Just simply the best. One last item: the banquet room set was designed to tilt a certain number of degrees to simulate the beginning of the rollover. Camera tricks and stunt performers accomplished the rest. The movie was nominated for 9 Academy awards and won 2: Best Original Song (The Morning After) and Best Visual Effects.
Well, he's only in this movie for about ten seconds and doesn't exactly have much to do in it. He's not "overlooking" Roddy McDowell; you'd overlook him to if you didn't know who he was!
The first of the four major 70's disaster movies was Airport (which in turn had sequels), the other three movies were the Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, and Earthquake.
Red Buttons was a comedian who had his own TV show in the mid-1950's and was in movies such as The Longest Day, Hatari!, Five Weeks in a Balloon, and more, and won an Oscar for his performance in Sayonara.
@samhain1894 Yes, they were in response to the celebrity roasts, of which Red Buttons could, like Danny Thomas, be hysterically funny without being vulgar or censorable.
A great New Year's reaction! I remember seeing this as a young boy in the 1970's and cheering Robin (little boy) on to survive because he was my age. This movie was chock-full of award winning actors and actresses but the death scene with Belle (Shelly Winters) killed me. This is by far my favorite disaster movie of the 70's. Happy 2025!
You're absolutely correct - watch some old behind the scenes footage and interviews, these actors were really put through it. And that was real fire, unlike CGI now. Very impressive. So glad I was able to see this as a little kid in a theater.
This is my all time favorite movie. It came out when I was ten years old. I saw it four times in the theater back then. It really impacted my life. I started college as a film major thanks to this and the other disaster films of the seventies. I think my questioning of religious leaders started with Gene Hackman’s preacher character. At ten I had no idea who John Williams was but am glad that he had a part in this film. Thanks for reacting to this.
I saw this film in first release with my folks at a drive in. I always thought it was well done, everyone was going to see it back then. If I remember correctly, I read that the main scene of the ship capsizing, the dining room set actually pivoted. It was a very expensive movie to make 50 years ago. You didn’t mention Roddy McDowell who was in all 5 “Planet of the Apes” films in the 70’s. If you haven’t seen it, one of my favorite big budget disasters was 1970’s “AIRPORT”. This had an all star cast as well with the great Helen Hayes playing the part of a stowaway on a flight to Rome which won her the academy award. It was a very suspenseful film and for years held the record of world wide box office champ. My folks took me to this first “grown up” movie when I was 8 years old. The following year mom and dad took me on a summer long trip to California. When I found out that my first plane trip we’d be flying to Los Angeles on was the same type used in the movie, I just knew our plane would explode too! Anyway, if you do watch “AIRPORT” I hope you enjoy it.
@JonS0107 Shelley Winters was nominated for A PLACE IN THE SUN, but she won for THE DIARY OF ANN FRANK & A PATCH OF BLUE. Also, nominated for THE POSEIDEN ADVENTURE, winning a Golden Globe award.
she always reminds me of my Aunt Cil. she was rather heavy also, had a similar hair style, and kind of squeaky voice. her and my Uncle lived in Costa Mesa Ca
Several cast members appeared in various DC Comics productions . Roddy McDowall and Shelley Winters played supervillains on Batman (1966). McDowall played the Bookworm and Winters played Ma Parker. Red Buttons and Stella Stevens appeared on Wonder Woman (1975). Gene Hackman played Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).
Yes that was really the actress Shelly Winters / Mrs.Rosen doing her own water/swimming scene. As a child she used to swim with Tarzan actor and Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller who taught her well. and she had a refreasher course with another Olympic swimmer to get back in condition for her big scene.
This movie was sooo intense in the movie theater! I watched a behind the scenes documentary and it was astonishing. Incredibly dangerous and uncomfortable for everyone.Shelley Winters was amazing. The Towering Inferno also was amazing. And then Earthquake used technology that made the seats rumble.
LOVE this film!! You’ve seen two of the three seminal films in the disaster movie canon that are the apex of the genre with this and The Towering Inferno, now it’s time to catch up with the one that really started the ball rolling-1970’s all-star “Airport”. Based on an Arthur Haley novel that was also very successful the movie made a mint (128 million, equivalent to one billion in today’s money, on a 10-million-dollar budget), garnered 10 Oscar nominations, with a few wins, and three sequels (none as good as the original). What I like about these films is they take enough time to acquaint you with the characters, perhaps not a deep dive but you know who they are, so that when disaster strikes you care what happens to them, a skill that is most definitely lost in today disaster flicks. All the cast in this film were established performers when it was made with several Oscar winners-Hackman, Borgnine, Shelley Winters (she had two by this point), Jack Albertson and Red Buttons-among them. Leslie Nielsen at the time was not the star he became but more of a respected character actor seen as somewhat passed his prime. All the main stars have extensive filmographies worth exploring. Really too extensive to recommend all their good work but I’ll offer a couple for each. Gene Hackman- “Under Fire” (1983) & “Night Moves” (1975) Shelley Winters- “A Place in the Sun” (1951) & “The Diary of Anne Frank” (1959). She was nominated for both and won for the second. Also, just for fun there is “Frenchie” (1950) from her sex symbol period. When she was just starting out, she and Marilyn Monroe were roommates and remained close friends for the rest of Marilyn’s life. Red Buttons- “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” (1969)-a powerful but very grim movie about Depression era marathon dances that also contains what might be Jane Fonda’s best performance. “Sayonara” (1957)-Not the best film but he’s exceptionally good in it and this is what he won his Oscar for. Ernest Borgnine- “Marty” (1950)-he won the Best Actor Oscar for the film & “The Catered Affair (1956). Stella Stevens- “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (1970), & “How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968). A wonderful, underappreciated actress who came along at the wrong time for her unique gifts. She still had a lengthy career and passed away in 2023. Jack Albertson- “The Subject Was Roses” (1968), “The Flim-Flam Man (1967). Jack was more of a TV and stage performer, so his movie roles are less numerous. Roddy McDowell- “How Green Was My Valley” (1942), & “Fright Night” (1985). Roddy started in films at the age of ten and continued acting until his death at 70 in 1998. Carol Lynley- “Bunny Lake is Missing” (1965) & “The Last Sunset” (1961)-this Western was nicknamed “Strange on the Range” by critics when it premiered. Hope that helps!
Another Great video reaction. You have become my favorite reactor! My experience with this movie was with my family when I was 8 years old. My dad had a 63 Ford Galaxy convertible, and he took us to the drive in movie to see this. We put the top down, and put pillows and blankets on the trunk lid. A memory itched in my mind to this day. We all loved the movie, as it was a huge hit then.
I remember this movie well! my sister and I went to see it twice at the Central city Mall in San Bernardino when it just came out. back when San Berdo wasn't so run down and Dangerous in some parts, the Central City Mall later became the doomed Carousel mall, which now has been totally demolished, and all that remains are parts of concrete slabs, and flooring ...
The actors were so wonderful and wanted to be in these BIG Movies. So many well known actors were proud to do their stunts, and get plummeted by water/etc. during filming...It was a badge of honor back then. This is a great movie because of the GREAT ACTING...it was believable how they reacted, and so it still holds up today.
You passed over Shelley Winters fairly quickly, but at the time she was probably the biggest name in this cast and got her fourth Oscar nomination for the movie. She had a long career in films, Broadway and TV from the 1940s to the 1990s, largely in character / supporting roles, but made a name for herself in the press for political activism and a tempestuous personal life.
I love that shot at 31:51 of Ernest Borgnine shouting up to Gene Hackman with the fire below him. I was either 11 or 12 when I saw this with my siblings and parents and remember getting excited to see it merely seeing the great poster in the lobby.
That was fun!!! Gene Hackman is fantastic in Hoosiers and Crimson Tide. He also plays the President in Absolute Power with Clint Eastwood. All great movies.
'TWO-MINUTE WARNING", with Charlton Heston, was, in my opinion, one of the best films of that genre. It takes place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and it's a great action thriller, unfairly underrated, with great character development, that certainly deserved much more recognition when it came out. Its director, Larry Pearce, also directed "THE INCIDENT" a few years before, in 1967, a jaw-drop masterpiece nobody has reacted to yet either.
I saw that in the theatre on a Sat afternoon with my buddies. Charlton Heston was the perfect Kids hero in the 70s. The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Earthquake, Airport 75, 2-Min Warning. I saw all in the theatre.
Back then, Irwin Allen was a household name. They showed the man falling into the light fixture for TV previews. I hammered my parents to take me. Saw this in an Original Dome Theater with a Giant Curved Screen. The way they depicted the ballroom turning over is simple, but effective. If you look closely, the scene where Hackman, Borgnine and Shea are trying to get up the ladder and water is quickly filling the room up. The set was built on a tilted track with wheels. When released, the set lowered into a huge pool of water, to simulate water flooding in. Problem was, they forgot to add brakes. The set kept going under. You can tell techs are trying to quickly unbolt the expensive camera before submersion. The climb up that ladder started as acting, but turned real in a second. The Poseidon Adventure is in my Top 5 favorite films. The score is underused, but highly effective.
Season’s Greetings, HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥂🎊✨🥂🎊✨🙋🏻♀️. AWESOME MOVIE, One of my all time favorite 70s movies… What’s Up Doc ( Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’neil), Is another 70s favorite… But is lots of others I love … 70s were great movies 👍👍👍
What are the best comedies of all time! Literally a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon. Love this movie! Top 3 highest grossing movies of 1972 were The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure, What's Up Doc.
Saw this in the theater. My dad drove my sister and I to the theater, which was two hours away. We drove from the Rocky Mountains in Alberta into Calgary in winter to see it. My dad was in the Canadian Navy, on HMCS Haida. Just going to see the movie is one of my favourite memories. And it is a great film. This movie has held up so well. No CGI here. Leslie Nielsen was a well known dramatic actor before he did Airplane. Everyone was shocked to see him in a comedy lol. Shelley Winters, who played Mrs. Rosen, gained 50 pounds to do this movie and was never able to lose it again. She had been a blonde bombshell of the 50s. She was quite a character and wrote two amazing memoirs. She was very witty and very funny. I can’t agree on the score. I think some movies depend too much on score when the writing and the acting are not up to par and they try to jam emotions down your throat with a big score. Irwin Allen was quite the producer. Love this movie.❤️
Your family story about going to see this film is wonderful. I agree with you about the movie scores, either it's on screen thru performance or editing. No score can salvage bad scripts or poor acting.
Watched this many times as a kid because my mother loved it. First time on a cruise first night couldn’t sleep all I could think about was this movie 🫤
The originsl master tapes to the John Williams score to this flick were damaged in storage. Film Score Monthly several decades ago was able to save most of it. They included the full score, damage and all. The main title track is the highlight. Instant dread and anxiety seeps through it.
After seeing this movie on a theater, I was terrified of cruise ships. Also another disaster movie is Airport...another movie came out that made fun of it.
You're lucky sir! I heard David is going to react to Airport 1975 and Airport 77! I also told him not to react to the fourth Airport film! 😊@reesebn38
Shelley Winters (Mrs. Rosen) was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1973. She was an excellent actor, trained at the Actor’s Studio, but she got stuck playing a lot of bad girls and murder victims early in her career.
Before CGI is where you find the great directors and movie makers. I remember this one when first released at theaters. Still impressive after all these years! 👍 And my favorite 70’s disaster movie is The Towering Inferno 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 My first time at your channel and I really enjoyed it. 🌟
I grew up on disaster movies and The Poseidon Adventure is one of my favorites. I saw at the drive-in when it first came out and i had a crush on Carol Lynley (who plays Nonnie) when I was 8 years-old. I liked The Towering Inferno but I'm still angry at Irwin Allen for killing off Lisolette (played by Jennifer Jones). She looked after those children all that time just to get rewarded by falling from that elevator. 🤬🤬 You've done Earthquake as well and I own that on DVD as well as The Poseidon Adventure. Of the modern ones, I really liked The Day After Tomorrow and Dante's Peak. Titanic? Well, that's just a given! 🥰🥰
Killing lisolette was shocking, but it added reality that anyone can die. It rises the stakes and shows that it doesn't matter if you are a good person or bad, Death happens. It probably would be better if it didn't show her falling after the elevator incident.
In 1972, Leslie Nielsen's career was at a low point. His career would be born again with Airplane and his discovery as a comedic actor. But in Poseidon he was his traditional straight-laced leading man, in a secondary role. Yes, the cast did their own stunts -including the young man who was Susan's date, Ernie Orsatti, who fell through the skylight after the ship rolled over. Back in the day, before CGI, they had to create practical effects -actually tilting giant sets and flooding/burning things. Those actors really earned their paychecks!
A companion film to watch after this would be "The Towering Inferno," which came out two years later. Since the Super Bowl is coming up in a little over a month, you can watch "Black Sunday"--about a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl. Footage from the actual game in 1976 is used in the film.
My grandma said she went to see this in the theater the week it came out and when she went there, in the theater lobby they had a giant upside down Christmas tree!
Thanks for the fun reaction to probably the best of the 70s disaster films. I love this film. So many Oscar winners all together. I rank it above The Towering Inferno as it has a better screenplay and better delineated characters with terrific performances that go much deeper than the ones in TTI. Another Gene Hackman to watch is an offbeat comedy called "All Night Long," co-starring Barbra Streisand, about a middle-aged man having his mid-life crisis and determined to find real happiness in his life. Both Hackman and Streisand are great, but he especially shines. It was written specifically for him and really shows other sides to him as an actor. It would be a great change of pace after "The French Connection." Also, you must watch "Unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood, Hackman and Morgan Freeman. One of the greatest westerns ever made and a deserving Oscar winner for Hackman as Best Supporting Actor, Eastwood for Best Director, and the film won Best Picture.
back when you got to see 2 movies for one price i saw this along with "billy jack"(another great 70s movie). it was a great double feature! robin,the boy played by eric shea, is the younger brother of christopher shea who did the voice of linus in "a charlie brown christmas". i'm about the same age as eric,so i connected with his character a lot.
I've always loved disaster movies. Airport, Towering Inferno abd The Poseidon Adventure started that fascination with the genre. There's a *Beyond The Poseidon Adventure* that extends the story with other survivors.
Before his disaster movies, Irwin Allen was known for _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel,_ and _Land of the Giants,_ which all run Saturday night on MeTV. Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, and Peter Graves were known only for their tough, serious, even macho, dramatic roles, so they parodied themselves for the first time in _Airplane!_ I see you've reacted to Irwin Allen's _Earthquake_ and _Towering Inferno._ I'm on my way!
This movie wrecked me when I was 8 when I first watched it. The sequence where Shelly Winter's character swam underwater then died of a heart attack was ingrained in my soul! lol. Fantastic movie.
Thanks and congrats on watching this great classic disaster movie. These classic movies are very realistic and believable. The sets and acting are top notch. As a viewer you get very engaged in the actors. I saw this in the 70's as a kid and it is AWESOME!
Good reaction and edit. I read the book back in the day. You remember the people heading towards the bow? In the book they were quickly rescued, no fuss or bother. The preacher lead his group the wrong way. People died because of his convictions. Mr. Rogo was played by Ernest Borgnine, winner of the Best Actor Award at the 1956 Academy Awards for the movie 'Marty'. 'Marty' took four awards, Best Picture, Actor, Actress and Director. Very much recommended.
The young man who danced with Susan was Ernie Orsatti and he was an actor/stuntman. He did one of the most epic stunts in cinema history, the one where the man hangs from a table and falls straight down into a chandelier. He didn't want to do it but one of the production team William Creber talked him into it and basically said F-You to him right before he did it, lol.
I don't know if anyone else has recommended this movie, but 1980's"When Time Ran Out"is a"Towering Inferno"reunion with Paul Newman and William Holden and a"Poseidon Adventure"reunion with Ernest Borgnine and Red Buttons.A lot of people think it's rubbish,but I actually like it.There's a few good tense bits such as when they have to cross a rickety old bridge with a river of molten lava running beneath.Also if you fancy a slightly older disaster movie you could give 1965's "Crack In The World"with Dana Andrews a try.I'm enjoying your reactions especially your realisation that older movies are very often better acted and have better storylines.Keep up the good work!🌋
As a kid in the 1970s their was a slew of disaster movies , to me all good and scary.This was on top of list.The commercial of movie shows the wall of water coming to boat, boat upside down, the people falling, scarey concept, also sort of similar a little airport 77, a plane crashes under water, and more.This is great movie.
I was 14 when I first saw this in March 1973. Best way to see it is on the big screen in a dark theater. Shelley Winters trained for months in a swimming pool for her underwater scene.
Great Reaction!!! 😄👍👍 I saw this film at 8rs old and that was when I first discovered John Williams. The score is heavy ladened with the main melody & secondary melodies which I loved. That may overpower other scenes needing different melodies for the tragedy scenes you mentioned (don't know if that was the director's or John's choice). Surprisingly I thought John's Towering Inferno was kinda' lacking (even though I still liked that score). Two months ago, I toured the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA. that was partially used as a prop for the film, and I got my "Poseidon Adventure thrill" on. 🚢
Gene Hackman, Shelly Winters, Jack Albertson, Roddy McDowell, Ernest Borgnine, and Pamela Sue Martin star in one of the best movies from my childhood. I can't tell you how many dreams I've had of swimming through flooded rooms and upside-down environments as a result of growing up with this movie.
In addition to Shelley and Ernest, Gene Hackman and Red Buttons were also Oscar winners. Shelley started her career as a sex symbol but worked to play meatier roles in A Place in the Sun, Diary of Anne Frank and others. She gained weight for this movie and struggled to take it off afterward. She was a fascinating lady.
@johnfraley8544 Shelley Winters has an unforgettable role in the Charles Laughton directorial debut feature NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 1955. The widow of executed felon Peter Graves, she comes under the spell of a born again preacher, who happened to be cellmates with Peter Graves. The scene of her dead in the car at the bottom of the river is haunting.
HILARIOUS!!! The best reaction to this movie! Some of the script is cheesy as hell, especially in the early part of the movie, but like you said: they give you just enough to give half a crap about these people before the action starts! And it helps that these actors showed up and gave 100% and really sold it, cheesy lines or no cheesy lines. Like Gene Hackman, who had just won the Oscar for French Connection, but had already signed on to do this movie. He could have easily phoned it in. Instead, he's acting his ass off! Love what you said about the actors doing their own stunts! I always think the same thing! Not just this movie but lots of 'em! Seriously enjoyed the hell out of this reaction, you're the perfect reactor for it! All the stuff with the little kid, and Mrs. Rosen.....and the whole 70s of it all, you had me cracking up the whole time.
@@FlixTalk Dude, are you ok? Are you and your family ok? These wildfires are so horrifying, I'm just so sorry, I know that SOMETHING from your life, even if it's just a place you liked to visit, has been burned. My heart breaks for L.A. and Southern California.
@@TTM9691 thank you for checking in! Yes we are ok. The closet fire to us was about 30 miles away and it's been contained. We were near the Kenneth Fire. Unfortunately there are still 3 big fires going on. Thanks again for checking in!
I saw this movie in the theater in 1972 (ai was 10). The set design was phenomenal the dead bodies were creepy. But watching this on the big screen was pretty amazing.
This has been my favorite movie for 50 years! If you want to see an absolutely amazing film and see more Red Buttons, I highly recommend They Shoot Horses Don’t They? An excellent cast and cinematography, you will love it.
I experienced the "herd mentality " before a deadly hurricane in Florida. My neighborhood was right above MacDill AFB which had already abandoned the base. I received reverse 911 calls where they call YOU to get OUT. After a white van with speakers drove by blaring on a megaphone to save yourselves and get out now passed by all the neighbors gathered in the street to discuss what to do. When I suggested we could get to a nearby school, bust out a window and go higher everyone thought that was a great idea. I told them it was nuts lol. We couldn't go against the storm surge. That's when I decided to leave. That's a whole story itself.
Great reaction to a great movie. It is even better on the big screen. I love the practical effects, and the great acting of the old movies. The sets were amazing as was the entire stunt crew.
3:25 The nurse is Sheila Allen, wife of Irwin. She had bit parts in most of his disaster movies and some of his TV shows (under the name Sheila Mathews until they wed), but her biggest roles were in _Viva Knievel!_ (which Irwin produced but took his name off, so unusual for such a self-promoter that it tells you how bad the thing is) and _When Time Ran Out,_ Irwin's final flop. She managed to steer clear of _The Swarm_ and _Beyond the Poseidon Adventure,_ though. (I would kill to see your reaction to _The Swarm,_ by the way. It's my all-time favorite bad movie!)
Here is some, Roddy McDowell Acres. The guide you called him watch all of the Planet Of The Ape movies. He's in all but one. Then you have Ernest Borgnine, the cops. His big Academy Award winner for best actor was for the movie Marty. Also in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1968) also with William Holdman (Omen 2) and a slew of others. Let's not forget Red Buttons, the runner, vitamin taker, haberdasher Mr. Rosin. The movie to watch him in is Hatari! (1962). My all time FAVORITE John Wayne movies. You must NOT miss that movie!! Of course, don't need to mention Gene Hackman. You said The French Connection is coming. We'll, he won best actor for that movie while making this movie. But don't forget The French Connection does have a sequel. Hackman's acting his brilliant in both. TFC was based on a true story while TFC2 was fictionized but you should see his acting in that one. Both movies both worth watching!!
The remake simply titled Poseiden is well done. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfess, Andre Braugher, and Kevin Dillon. Done in 2006, it has great effects but tons of practical effects and super crazy stunts. Well, worth a watch!
Ernest Borgnine started in one of my favorite TV series McHales Navy (1962 - 1966 ) Great comedy with another favorite of mine Tim Conway ( you might know him from skits on the Carol Burnett show ) i watched the reruns because the original series was a bit before my time.
One of my favorite movies! A huge hit back in the day! Ernest Borgnine and Stella Stevens were hilarious in this movie ( although not purposely). You gotta watch all the "Airport" movies, but do them in order!
Oh, I forgot to mention, one Jack Albertson movie to watch and it was his last and it was a doozy. A horror movie, rated R called Dead And Buried (1981). Also with a young pre Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). It did earn it's R rating and has a big twist ending not to be missed. Happy New Year.
Excellent!!! One of my most favorite movies ever. My two favorite lines are: "It is true, you pompous ass!" "I'm going next so if ole' fat ass gets stuck, I won't get stuck behind her."
The scary part is that the movie is based on the fact that during WW2 a 95ft freak wave hit the RMS Queen Mary broadside and she was carrying over 15,000 American troops.
Hackman, Oscar Winner, Borgnine Oscar Winner, Winters Oscar Winner, Buttons Oscar Winner, Albertson Oscar Winner, O'connell 2 time Oscar Nominee! Fantastic Cast!
I was 15 y.o. when I went to see The Poseidon Adventure, having read the book beforehand. I remember laughing hysterically after a somewhat hefty Shelley Winters died and Ernest Borgnine said "Y'had a lotta guts, lady........a lotta guts."
Yeah they did their own stunts. The guy that fell through the roof light didn't know it until they told him he had to do it. He got knocked out for like 30 minutes and they just left him laying there. Hollywood was the Wild West back then. After that he got a reputation as the actor that does his own stunts.
Great reaction David!!! The cast was indeed top tier. Just take Shelly Winters for example, winner of two academy awards and friend and roommate of Marilyn Monroe. As she got older she frequented the talk shows and would enchant audiences with her stories of her younger days as a starlet then star. My favorite story of hers, is when she was on an audition in her later years . she could tell the young casting directors didnt really know what a big star she had been. She was getting frustrated with all the questions so she went to her purse and brought out her two Oscars and said , hey young people, apparently some people in town think I can act,,...lol.... Ernest Borgnine, who won an Oscar in 1955 for Marty is also in a 70s. low budget. horror film called Willard, you might enjoy it, Ernest plays the boss from hell for the socially awkward lead character. Check with your patreons , see what they think. They made a sequel to it called Ben and Michael Jackson sings the main song to it. Happy New Year!!!
I saw this movie with my cousin the day it came out in a huge theater that had a balcony and held about 2000 people it was amazing.... not bad for 1.25 and with popcorn drinks and a snack you could have a good afternoon for less than 5 bucks ✌️😎 Aiport (1975) The first of the Airport movies and a good one during a winter storm. Earthquake (1974) Didn't get great reviews but in the theater they had bass Speakers spread around the room and under the seats that you could feel seconds before seeing it on screen.
Masterclass acting. Was 7 when this came out. Never gets old. A true classic from the master of disaster, Irwin Allen. Left a mark on me for sure. Great reaction!!!!
Both Red Buttons and Jack Albertson won Supporting Actor in years past meanwhile Shelley Winters(2 times Oscar winner) was a front runner for a third but lost to Eileen Heckart that year. Allegedly Alberstson(Manny) hated working with Winters(Mrs Rosen), I would never had guessed it.
This movie is a classic. It always gets me when Mrs Rosen dies after saving the preacher. They don't make movies this great anymore ! xx
This was the second biggest movie of 1972 right behind The Godfather. I was eight, my buddies and I rode our bikes to the theater on a Saturday afternoon to see The Poseidon Adventure. My friend was at the snack bar getting popcorn just as the tidal wave was about to hit. I ran out to the lobby and yelled tidal wave! There were 50 kids at the snack bar. Like a tidal wave all 50 kids turned and ran back in the theater to see the wave hit! In the seventies it was the best time to be a kid at the movies.
Yep- I was seven, and "The Poseidon Adventure" was THE movie to see!
i was 12, saw in the theater
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Big enough that Mad Magazine did a knock-off in their September 1973 issue
@@malcolmmceasy2252 Yes, and one of Mad's best take-offs ever, IMO.
Something about Leslie Nielsen you may or may not know. During this time in his career he was known as a serious actor. He didn't do comedy until Airplane(1980). That's why it was a shock to people when Airplane was first released, they had no idea that he could do that type of comedy.
@donaldseale2700 Leslie Nielson portrayed the romantic lead to Debbie Reynolds and the son of Fay Wray in TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR. Then he was the space captain in FORBIDDEN PLANET 1956 opposite Anne Francis & Walter Pidgeon, plus Robbie the Robot.
I was 12 when this came out. It knocked me down. This movie started my love for the movies. (Jaws clenched it three years later.) Nowadays I can't help picking at it, various moments... but as a whole, it still hits hard. Glad you enjoyed.
The one actor you overlooked was Roddy McDowall as Acres, the steward. He was famous as a child actor and starred in the original Lassie movie. He appeared in many tv dramas in the 50s and on Broadway before joining Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra in the early 60s. He then appeared as Cornelius in the original 1968 Planet of the Apes. He starred in 3 of the sequels and then appeared as a new ape character in the short lived 1974 POTA tv series. Younger audiences know him as Peter Vincent, the "vampire slayer" from 1985s Fright Night and its sequel.
The actors did indeed do a majority of their own stunts, especially the underwater corridor scene. I remember watching the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Shelly Winters was a guest. She showed that clip of her underwater rescuing Gene Hackman and you could tell she was very proud of what she had done.
The Poseidon Adventure is one of my top 10 favorite movies. I love that younger audiences are enjoying it along with another favorite, The Towering Inferno. No CGI involved, all practical effects and magnificent real sets. Just simply the best.
One last item: the banquet room set was designed to tilt a certain number of degrees to simulate the beginning of the rollover. Camera tricks and stunt performers accomplished the rest. The movie was nominated for 9 Academy awards and won 2: Best Original Song (The Morning After) and Best Visual Effects.
Well, he's only in this movie for about ten seconds and doesn't exactly have much to do in it. He's not "overlooking" Roddy McDowell; you'd overlook him to if you didn't know who he was!
The first of the four major 70's disaster movies was Airport (which in turn had sequels), the other three movies were the Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, and Earthquake.
I watched Earthquake a few weeks ago…it’s not a great movie, in my opinion (a bit of a disaster).
Hey now... what about Rollercoaster? (On second thought, let's not go there.)
Red Buttons was a comedian who had his own TV show in the mid-1950's and was in movies such as The Longest Day, Hatari!, Five Weeks in a Balloon, and more, and won an Oscar for his performance in Sayonara.
@xbubblehead Red Buttons was known later in his career for his comic monologues "he never got a dinner"
@@PhilipWeisman-dl4ik haha you beat me to it!!! Did Red ever get a dinner? Was that line in reference to Dean Martin Roasts?
@samhain1894 Yes, they were in response to the celebrity roasts, of which Red Buttons could, like Danny Thomas, be hysterically funny without being vulgar or censorable.
A great New Year's reaction! I remember seeing this as a young boy in the 1970's and cheering Robin (little boy) on to survive because he was my age. This movie was chock-full of award winning actors and actresses but the death scene with Belle (Shelly Winters) killed me. This is by far my favorite disaster movie of the 70's. Happy 2025!
Pamela Sue Martin was a teen star who played Nancy Drew in a series of TV movies.
You're absolutely correct - watch some old behind the scenes footage and interviews, these actors were really put through it. And that was real fire, unlike CGI now. Very impressive. So glad I was able to see this as a little kid in a theater.
This is my all time favorite movie. It came out when I was ten years old. I saw it four times in the theater back then. It really impacted my life. I started college as a film major thanks to this and the other disaster films of the seventies. I think my questioning of religious leaders started with Gene Hackman’s preacher character. At ten I had no idea who John Williams was but am glad that he had a part in this film. Thanks for reacting to this.
I saw this film in first release with my folks at a drive in. I always thought it was well done, everyone was going to see it back then. If I remember correctly, I read that the main scene of the ship capsizing, the dining room set actually pivoted. It was a very expensive movie to make 50 years ago. You didn’t mention Roddy McDowell who was in all 5 “Planet of the Apes” films in the 70’s.
If you haven’t seen it, one of my favorite big budget disasters was 1970’s “AIRPORT”. This had an all star cast as well with the great Helen Hayes playing the part of a stowaway on a flight to Rome which won her the academy award. It was a very suspenseful film and for years held the record of world wide box office champ. My folks took me to this first “grown up” movie when I was 8 years old. The following year mom and dad took me on a summer long trip to California. When I found out that my first plane trip we’d be flying to Los Angeles on was the same type used in the movie, I just knew our plane would explode too!
Anyway, if you do watch “AIRPORT” I hope you enjoy it.
Agree with you about the airport movies. I actually commented about them before I saw your comment. I told him to watch them, in order of release. 🙌😊
On of my favourite Gene Hackman movies 👍 . Great movie .Happy New Year dude . 🎉
This was the first Gene Hackman movie I saw. That guy sure made a lot of great movies. Never gave a crappy performance.
Shelly Winters won an Oscar for A Place in the Sun in 1952, and best supporting actress in A Patch of Blue in 1965. Both excellent movies.
Never seen A Place In The Sun but I loved A Patch Of Blue.
@JonS0107 Shelley Winters was nominated for A PLACE IN THE SUN, but she won for THE DIARY OF ANN FRANK & A PATCH OF BLUE. Also, nominated for THE POSEIDEN ADVENTURE, winning a Golden Globe award.
Both of those movies are excellent!!!
She is a very respectful actress who has class and poise.
she always reminds me of my Aunt Cil. she was rather heavy also, had a similar hair style, and kind of squeaky voice.
her and my Uncle lived in Costa Mesa Ca
Several cast members appeared in various DC Comics productions . Roddy McDowall and Shelley Winters played supervillains on Batman (1966). McDowall played the Bookworm and Winters played Ma Parker. Red Buttons and Stella Stevens appeared on Wonder Woman (1975). Gene Hackman played Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).
Wow very true
Another very good film with Red Buttons was "Five Weeks in a Balloon". He was a stand-up comedian before he became an actor.
My husband and I watch this every New Year’s Eve. This film means a lot to us.
Yes that was really the actress Shelly Winters / Mrs.Rosen doing her own water/swimming scene. As a child she used to swim with Tarzan actor and Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller who taught her well. and she had a refreasher course with another Olympic swimmer to get back in condition for her big scene.
This movie was sooo intense in the movie theater! I watched a behind the scenes documentary and it was astonishing. Incredibly dangerous and uncomfortable for everyone.Shelley Winters was amazing. The Towering Inferno also was amazing. And then Earthquake used technology that made the seats rumble.
LOVE this film!! You’ve seen two of the three seminal films in the disaster movie canon that are the apex of the genre with this and The Towering Inferno, now it’s time to catch up with the one that really started the ball rolling-1970’s all-star “Airport”. Based on an Arthur Haley novel that was also very successful the movie made a mint (128 million, equivalent to one billion in today’s money, on a 10-million-dollar budget), garnered 10 Oscar nominations, with a few wins, and three sequels (none as good as the original). What I like about these films is they take enough time to acquaint you with the characters, perhaps not a deep dive but you know who they are, so that when disaster strikes you care what happens to them, a skill that is most definitely lost in today disaster flicks.
All the cast in this film were established performers when it was made with several Oscar winners-Hackman, Borgnine, Shelley Winters (she had two by this point), Jack Albertson and Red Buttons-among them. Leslie Nielsen at the time was not the star he became but more of a respected character actor seen as somewhat passed his prime. All the main stars have extensive filmographies worth exploring. Really too extensive to recommend all their good work but I’ll offer a couple for each.
Gene Hackman- “Under Fire” (1983) & “Night Moves” (1975)
Shelley Winters- “A Place in the Sun” (1951) & “The Diary of Anne Frank” (1959). She was nominated for both and won for the second. Also, just for fun there is “Frenchie” (1950) from her sex symbol period. When she was just starting out, she and Marilyn Monroe were roommates and remained close friends for the rest of Marilyn’s life.
Red Buttons- “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” (1969)-a powerful but very grim movie about Depression era marathon dances that also contains what might be Jane Fonda’s best performance. “Sayonara” (1957)-Not the best film but he’s exceptionally good in it and this is what he won his Oscar for.
Ernest Borgnine- “Marty” (1950)-he won the Best Actor Oscar for the film & “The Catered Affair (1956).
Stella Stevens- “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (1970), & “How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968). A wonderful, underappreciated actress who came along at the wrong time for her unique gifts. She still had a lengthy career and passed away in 2023.
Jack Albertson- “The Subject Was Roses” (1968), “The Flim-Flam Man (1967). Jack was more of a TV and stage performer, so his movie roles are less numerous.
Roddy McDowell- “How Green Was My Valley” (1942), & “Fright Night” (1985). Roddy started in films at the age of ten and continued acting until his death at 70 in 1998.
Carol Lynley- “Bunny Lake is Missing” (1965) & “The Last Sunset” (1961)-this Western was nicknamed “Strange on the Range” by critics when it premiered.
Hope that helps!
Another Great video reaction. You have become my favorite reactor! My experience with this movie was with my family when I was 8 years old. My dad had a 63 Ford Galaxy convertible, and he took us to the drive in movie to see this. We put the top down, and put pillows and blankets on the trunk lid. A memory itched in my mind to this day. We all loved the movie, as it was a huge hit then.
My Favorite 70s Disaster Movie. I can't handle Shelley Winters fate...Great Score by John Williams
I remember this movie well! my sister and I went to see it twice at the Central city Mall in San Bernardino when it just came out.
back when San Berdo wasn't so run down and Dangerous in some parts, the Central City Mall later became the doomed Carousel mall,
which now has been totally demolished, and all that remains are parts of concrete slabs, and flooring ...
The actors were so wonderful and wanted to be in these BIG Movies.
So many well known actors were proud to do their stunts, and get plummeted by water/etc. during filming...It was a badge of honor back then.
This is a great movie because of the GREAT ACTING...it was believable how they reacted, and so it still holds up today.
You passed over Shelley Winters fairly quickly, but at the time she was probably the biggest name in this cast and got her fourth Oscar nomination for the movie. She had a long career in films, Broadway and TV from the 1940s to the 1990s, largely in character / supporting roles, but made a name for herself in the press for political activism and a tempestuous personal life.
I love that shot at 31:51 of Ernest Borgnine shouting up to Gene Hackman with the fire below him. I was either 11 or 12 when I saw this with my siblings and parents and remember getting excited to see it merely seeing the great poster in the lobby.
That was fun!!! Gene Hackman is fantastic in Hoosiers and Crimson Tide. He also plays the President in Absolute Power with Clint Eastwood. All great movies.
And let’s not forget his quick but hilarious cameo as the blind man in “Young Frankenstein!”
'TWO-MINUTE WARNING", with Charlton Heston, was, in my opinion, one of the best films of that genre. It takes place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and it's a great action thriller, unfairly underrated, with great character development, that certainly deserved much more recognition when it came out.
Its director, Larry Pearce, also directed "THE INCIDENT" a few years before, in 1967, a jaw-drop masterpiece nobody has reacted to yet either.
I saw that in the theatre on a Sat afternoon with my buddies. Charlton Heston was the perfect Kids hero in the 70s. The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Earthquake, Airport 75, 2-Min Warning. I saw all in the theatre.
this was always a great 3:00p movie to watch after school. a grilled cheese, a glass of milk, hundreds of horrific casualties at sea… memories. 🙂↕️
Back then, Irwin Allen was a household name. They showed the man falling into the light fixture for TV previews. I hammered my parents to take me. Saw this in an Original Dome Theater with a Giant Curved Screen. The way they depicted the ballroom turning over is simple, but effective. If you look closely, the scene where Hackman, Borgnine and Shea are trying to get up the ladder and water is quickly filling the room up. The set was built on a tilted track with wheels. When released, the set lowered into a huge pool of water, to simulate water flooding in. Problem was, they forgot to add brakes. The set kept going under. You can tell techs are trying to quickly unbolt the expensive camera before submersion. The climb up that ladder started as acting, but turned real in a second. The Poseidon Adventure is in my Top 5 favorite films. The score is underused, but highly effective.
Season’s Greetings, HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥂🎊✨🥂🎊✨🙋🏻♀️. AWESOME MOVIE, One of my all time favorite 70s movies… What’s Up Doc ( Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’neil), Is another 70s favorite… But is lots of others I love … 70s were great movies 👍👍👍
What are the best comedies of all time! Literally a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon. Love this movie! Top 3 highest grossing movies of 1972 were The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure, What's Up Doc.
@@reesebn38 Don’t forget YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN😆
Saw this in the theater. My dad drove my sister and I to the theater, which was two hours away. We drove from the Rocky Mountains in Alberta into Calgary in winter to see it. My dad was in the Canadian Navy, on HMCS Haida. Just going to see the movie is one of my favourite memories. And it is a great film.
This movie has held up so well. No CGI here.
Leslie Nielsen was a well known dramatic actor before he did Airplane. Everyone was shocked to see him in a comedy lol.
Shelley Winters, who played Mrs. Rosen, gained 50 pounds to do this movie and was never able to lose it again. She had been a blonde bombshell of the 50s. She was quite a character and wrote two amazing memoirs. She was very witty and very funny.
I can’t agree on the score. I think some movies depend too much on score when the writing and the acting are not up to par and they try to jam emotions down your throat with a big score.
Irwin Allen was quite the producer. Love this movie.❤️
Your family story about going to see this film is wonderful. I agree with you about the movie scores, either it's on screen thru performance or editing. No score can salvage bad scripts or poor acting.
Watched this many times as a kid because my mother loved it. First time on a cruise first night couldn’t sleep all I could think about was this movie 🫤
The originsl master tapes to the John Williams score to this flick were damaged in storage. Film Score Monthly several decades ago was able to save most of it. They included the full score, damage and all. The main title track is the highlight. Instant dread and anxiety seeps through it.
"It's not New Year's until I see Belle Rosen go swimming."
Great react!!! I had sooo much fun watching this with you!
After seeing this movie on a theater, I was terrified of cruise ships. Also another disaster movie is Airport...another movie came out that made fun of it.
Airport 75 and Airport 77 are pretty good too. Airport 79 one of the worst movies ever made.
You're lucky sir! I heard David is going to react to Airport 1975 and Airport 77! I also told him not to react to the fourth Airport film! 😊@reesebn38
The song being sung at the beginning ("The Morning After") by the woman (Carol Lynley) ended up winning an Oscar for Best Song
Gene Hackman, being my favorite all time actor, is THE reason I became an actor.....for over 30 years.
Shelley Winters (Mrs. Rosen) was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1973. She was an excellent actor, trained at the Actor’s Studio, but she got stuck playing a lot of bad girls and murder victims early in her career.
Before CGI is where you find the great directors and movie makers. I remember this one when first released at theaters. Still impressive after all these years! 👍 And my favorite 70’s disaster movie is The Towering Inferno 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 My first time at your channel and I really enjoyed it. 🌟
Everybody in the late 60's and early 70's were kissing each other on the mouth. Just look at Richard Dawson on Family Feud lol
Thanks again for reacting to this my friend! I will be posting this on my Facebook page now! So glad I gave you this movie as a gift! 😊
Boy the deaths in this movie hit me a lot harder now that family members have passed.
I grew up on disaster movies and The Poseidon Adventure is one of my favorites. I saw at the drive-in when it first
came out and i had a crush on Carol Lynley (who plays Nonnie) when I was 8 years-old. I liked The Towering Inferno
but I'm still angry at Irwin Allen for killing off Lisolette (played by Jennifer Jones). She looked after those children
all that time just to get rewarded by falling from that elevator. 🤬🤬 You've done Earthquake as well and I own that on
DVD as well as The Poseidon Adventure. Of the modern ones, I really liked The Day After Tomorrow and Dante's Peak.
Titanic? Well, that's just a given! 🥰🥰
Not just falling off the elevator but she hit the wall on the way down too. I was like 'Damn, I can't believe they double-tapped her like that!"
Killing lisolette was shocking, but it added reality that anyone can die. It rises the stakes and shows that it doesn't matter if you are a good person or bad, Death happens. It probably would be better if it didn't show her falling after the elevator incident.
In 1972, Leslie Nielsen's career was at a low point. His career would be born again with Airplane and his discovery as a comedic actor. But in Poseidon he was his traditional straight-laced leading man, in a secondary role.
Yes, the cast did their own stunts -including the young man who was Susan's date, Ernie Orsatti, who fell through the skylight after the ship rolled over. Back in the day, before CGI, they had to create practical effects -actually tilting giant sets and flooding/burning things. Those actors really earned their paychecks!
This movie is Too Much! So glad you got the Police Academy collection yesterday. Happy New Year's!!🎉🎉🙌🏿🎬📺😊👍🏼🕺🏽💚💙
A companion film to watch after this would be "The Towering Inferno," which came out two years later. Since the Super Bowl is coming up in a little over a month, you can watch "Black Sunday"--about a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl. Footage from the actual game in 1976 is used in the film.
My grandma said she went to see this in the theater the week it came out and when she went there, in the theater lobby they had a giant upside down Christmas tree!
Thanks for the fun reaction to probably the best of the 70s disaster films. I love this film. So many Oscar winners all together. I rank it above The Towering Inferno as it has a better screenplay and better delineated characters with terrific performances that go much deeper than the ones in TTI.
Another Gene Hackman to watch is an offbeat comedy called "All Night Long," co-starring Barbra Streisand, about a middle-aged man having his mid-life crisis and determined to find real happiness in his life. Both Hackman and Streisand are great, but he especially shines. It was written specifically for him and really shows other sides to him as an actor. It would be a great change of pace after "The French Connection."
Also, you must watch "Unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood, Hackman and Morgan Freeman. One of the greatest westerns ever made and a deserving Oscar winner for Hackman as Best Supporting Actor, Eastwood for Best Director, and the film won Best Picture.
back when you got to see 2 movies for one price i saw this along with "billy jack"(another great 70s movie). it was a great double feature! robin,the boy played by eric shea, is the younger brother of christopher shea who did the voice of linus in "a charlie brown christmas". i'm about the same age as eric,so i connected with his character a lot.
I've always loved disaster movies. Airport, Towering Inferno abd The Poseidon Adventure started that fascination with the genre.
There's a *Beyond The Poseidon Adventure* that extends the story with other survivors.
I was 11 when my mom took me to see this. I felt so grown up.
Before his disaster movies, Irwin Allen was known for _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel,_ and _Land of the Giants,_ which all run Saturday night on MeTV.
Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, and Peter Graves were known only for their tough, serious, even macho, dramatic roles, so they parodied themselves for the first time in _Airplane!_
I see you've reacted to Irwin Allen's _Earthquake_ and _Towering Inferno._ I'm on my way!
This movie wrecked me when I was 8 when I first watched it. The sequence where Shelly Winter's character swam underwater then died of a heart attack was ingrained in my soul! lol. Fantastic movie.
check out the movie at 31:07...the "dead" guy in white, he moves his arm!
Thanks and congrats on watching this great classic disaster movie. These classic movies are very realistic and believable. The sets and acting are top notch. As a viewer you get very engaged in the actors. I saw this in the 70's as a kid and it is AWESOME!
Good reaction and edit. I read the book back in the day. You remember the people heading towards the bow? In the book they were quickly rescued, no fuss or bother. The preacher lead his group the wrong way. People died because of his convictions. Mr. Rogo was played by Ernest Borgnine, winner of the Best Actor Award at the 1956 Academy Awards for the movie 'Marty'. 'Marty' took four awards, Best Picture, Actor, Actress and Director. Very much recommended.
The young man who danced with Susan was Ernie Orsatti and he was an actor/stuntman. He did one of the most epic stunts in cinema history, the one where the man hangs from a table and falls straight down into a chandelier. He didn't want to do it but one of the production team William Creber talked him into it and basically said F-You to him right before he did it, lol.
The ABC Sunday night movie, one of the few movies I was allowed to stay up past bedtime, as soon as they cracked the hatch it was off ro hed.
I don't know if anyone else has recommended this movie, but 1980's"When Time Ran Out"is a"Towering Inferno"reunion with Paul Newman and William Holden and a"Poseidon Adventure"reunion with Ernest Borgnine and Red Buttons.A lot of people think it's rubbish,but I actually like it.There's a few good tense bits such as when they have to cross a rickety old bridge with a river of molten lava running beneath.Also if you fancy a slightly older disaster movie you could give 1965's "Crack In The World"with Dana Andrews a try.I'm enjoying your reactions especially your realisation that older movies are very often better acted and have better storylines.Keep up the good work!🌋
Oh yeah when time ran out is good I have a reaction for it on my patreon
Very glad you like it!🌋
Red Buttons was also in a movie called "Hatari", with John Wayne. A really great movie. Hope you watch that one someday.
As a kid in the 1970s their was a slew of disaster movies , to me all good and scary.This was on top of list.The commercial of movie shows the wall of water coming to boat, boat upside down, the people falling, scarey concept, also sort of similar a little airport 77, a plane crashes under water, and more.This is great movie.
I was 14 when I first saw this in March 1973. Best way to see it is on the big screen in a dark theater. Shelley Winters trained for months in a swimming pool for her underwater scene.
Great Reaction!!! 😄👍👍 I saw this film at 8rs old and that was when I first discovered John Williams. The score is heavy ladened with the main melody & secondary melodies which I loved. That may overpower other scenes needing different melodies for the tragedy scenes you mentioned (don't know if that was the director's or John's choice). Surprisingly I thought John's Towering Inferno was kinda' lacking (even though I still liked that score). Two months ago, I toured the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA. that was partially used as a prop for the film, and I got my "Poseidon Adventure thrill" on. 🚢
Gene Hackman, Shelly Winters, Jack Albertson, Roddy McDowell, Ernest Borgnine, and Pamela Sue Martin star in one of the best movies from my childhood. I can't tell you how many dreams I've had of swimming through flooded rooms and upside-down environments as a result of growing up with this movie.
In addition to Shelley and Ernest, Gene Hackman and Red Buttons were also Oscar winners.
Shelley started her career as a sex symbol but worked to play meatier roles in A Place in the Sun, Diary of Anne Frank and others. She gained weight for this movie and struggled to take it off afterward. She was a fascinating lady.
@johnfraley8544 Shelley Winters has an unforgettable role in the Charles Laughton directorial debut feature NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 1955. The widow of executed felon Peter Graves, she comes under the spell of a born again preacher, who happened to be cellmates with Peter Graves. The scene of her dead in the car at the bottom of the river is haunting.
HILARIOUS!!! The best reaction to this movie! Some of the script is cheesy as hell, especially in the early part of the movie, but like you said: they give you just enough to give half a crap about these people before the action starts! And it helps that these actors showed up and gave 100% and really sold it, cheesy lines or no cheesy lines. Like Gene Hackman, who had just won the Oscar for French Connection, but had already signed on to do this movie. He could have easily phoned it in. Instead, he's acting his ass off! Love what you said about the actors doing their own stunts! I always think the same thing! Not just this movie but lots of 'em! Seriously enjoyed the hell out of this reaction, you're the perfect reactor for it! All the stuff with the little kid, and Mrs. Rosen.....and the whole 70s of it all, you had me cracking up the whole time.
Glad you enjoyed the reaction! Thanks for the support always!
@@FlixTalk Dude, are you ok? Are you and your family ok? These wildfires are so horrifying, I'm just so sorry, I know that SOMETHING from your life, even if it's just a place you liked to visit, has been burned. My heart breaks for L.A. and Southern California.
@@TTM9691 thank you for checking in! Yes we are ok. The closet fire to us was about 30 miles away and it's been contained. We were near the Kenneth Fire. Unfortunately there are still 3 big fires going on. Thanks again for checking in!
@@FlixTalk Wow. Thank god. So crazy. So sad. So glad you're ok.
I saw this movie in the theater in 1972 (ai was 10). The set design was phenomenal the dead bodies were creepy. But watching this on the big screen was pretty amazing.
This has been my favorite movie for 50 years! If you want to see an absolutely amazing film and see more Red Buttons, I highly recommend They Shoot Horses Don’t They? An excellent cast and cinematography, you will love it.
I saw this movie in my local theatre and it was amazing. Thank you for doing this golden oldie..great movie. God Bless
I experienced the "herd mentality " before a deadly hurricane in Florida. My neighborhood was right above MacDill AFB which had already abandoned the base. I received reverse 911 calls where they call YOU to get OUT. After a white van with speakers drove by blaring on a megaphone to save yourselves and get out now passed by all the neighbors gathered in the street to discuss what to do. When I suggested we could get to a nearby school, bust out a window and go higher everyone thought that was a great idea. I told them it was nuts lol. We couldn't go against the storm surge. That's when I decided to leave. That's a whole story itself.
Great reaction to a great movie. It is even better on the big screen. I love the practical effects, and the great acting of the old movies. The sets were amazing as was the entire stunt crew.
3:25 The nurse is Sheila Allen, wife of Irwin. She had bit parts in most of his disaster movies and some of his TV shows (under the name Sheila Mathews until they wed), but her biggest roles were in _Viva Knievel!_ (which Irwin produced but took his name off, so unusual for such a self-promoter that it tells you how bad the thing is) and _When Time Ran Out,_ Irwin's final flop. She managed to steer clear of _The Swarm_ and _Beyond the Poseidon Adventure,_ though. (I would kill to see your reaction to _The Swarm,_ by the way. It's my all-time favorite bad movie!)
70's disaster movies are pure popcorn.
So much fun!
Irwin Allen was mainly known for tv shows back then. VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, THE TIME TUNNEL, and LOST IN SPACE to name a few.
Here is some, Roddy McDowell Acres. The guide you called him watch all of the Planet Of The Ape movies. He's in all but one. Then you have Ernest Borgnine, the cops. His big Academy Award winner for best actor was for the movie Marty. Also in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1968) also with William Holdman (Omen 2) and a slew of others.
Let's not forget Red Buttons, the runner, vitamin taker, haberdasher Mr. Rosin. The movie to watch him in is Hatari! (1962). My all time FAVORITE John Wayne movies. You must NOT miss that movie!!
Of course, don't need to mention Gene Hackman. You said The French Connection is coming. We'll, he won best actor for that movie while making this movie. But don't forget The French Connection does have a sequel. Hackman's acting his brilliant in both. TFC was based on a true story while TFC2 was fictionized but you should see his acting in that one. Both movies both worth watching!!
The remake simply titled Poseiden is well done. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfess, Andre Braugher, and Kevin Dillon. Done in 2006, it has great effects but tons of practical effects and super crazy stunts. Well, worth a watch!
Watched this on The Late Show as a little girl in the mid 70's. The song for this was a big hit THE MORNING AFTER by Maureen McGovern.
Tha became a number one hit in australia
Ernest Borgnine started in one of my favorite TV series McHales Navy (1962 - 1966 )
Great comedy with another favorite of mine Tim Conway ( you might know him from skits on the Carol Burnett show ) i watched the reruns because the original series was a bit before my time.
some people never question what the authorities say.. 😷🙄
One of my favorite movies! A huge hit back in the day! Ernest Borgnine and Stella Stevens were hilarious in this movie ( although not purposely). You gotta watch all the "Airport" movies, but do them in order!
Oh, I forgot to mention, one Jack Albertson movie to watch and it was his last and it was a doozy. A horror movie, rated R called Dead And Buried (1981). Also with a young pre Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). It did earn it's R rating and has a big twist ending not to be missed. Happy New Year.
Yes, that is "Grandpa Joe" from Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory...
Excellent!!! One of my most favorite movies ever. My two favorite lines are:
"It is true, you pompous ass!"
"I'm going next so if ole' fat ass gets stuck, I won't get stuck behind her."
The scary part is that the movie is based on the fact that during WW2 a 95ft freak wave hit the RMS Queen Mary broadside and she was carrying over 15,000 American troops.
John Williams won Golden Globe for best score and was nominated for an Oscar for best score.
I think this was the first film I saw (in 1972) after moving to the US. It really had some impressive practical effects for its time.
Hackman, Oscar Winner, Borgnine Oscar Winner, Winters Oscar Winner, Buttons Oscar Winner, Albertson Oscar Winner, O'connell 2 time Oscar Nominee! Fantastic Cast!
None of them for this movie! But they all showed up and treated it like it was Shakespeare, God bless 'em!
Shelley Winters was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in the movie. She lost!
The movie was nominated for best picture next to The Godfather.
She can't lose something she didn't have in the first place. She was nominated, which is amazing.
I was 15 y.o. when I went to see The Poseidon Adventure, having read the book beforehand. I remember laughing hysterically after a somewhat hefty Shelley Winters died and Ernest Borgnine said "Y'had a lotta guts, lady........a lotta guts."
Ernest Borgnine was in the great film The Dirty Dozen.
Pamela Sue Martin (who played Susan) became worldwide known as Fallon Carrington when sie starred in Dynasty from 1981 - 1984
Yeah they did their own stunts. The guy that fell through the roof light didn't know it until they told him he had to do it. He got knocked out for like 30 minutes and they just left him laying there. Hollywood was the Wild West back then. After that he got a reputation as the actor that does his own stunts.
Lillian Gish did all her stunts in silent films. Tyrone Power and Basil Rathborne did their own sword fight in the 1940's version of Zorro.
Great reaction David!!! The cast was indeed top tier. Just take Shelly Winters for example, winner of two academy awards and friend and roommate of Marilyn Monroe. As she got older she frequented the talk shows and would enchant audiences with her stories of her younger days as a starlet then star. My favorite story of hers, is when she was on an audition in her later years . she could tell the young casting directors didnt really know what a big star she had been. She was getting frustrated with all the questions so she went to her purse and brought out her two Oscars and said , hey young people, apparently some people in town think I can act,,...lol.... Ernest Borgnine, who won an Oscar in 1955 for Marty is also in a 70s. low budget. horror film called Willard, you might enjoy it, Ernest plays the boss from hell for the socially awkward lead character. Check with your patreons , see what they think. They made a sequel to it called Ben and Michael Jackson sings the main song to it. Happy New Year!!!
I saw this movie with my cousin the day it came out in a huge theater that had a balcony and held about 2000 people it was amazing.... not bad for 1.25 and with popcorn drinks and a snack you could have a good afternoon for less than 5 bucks ✌️😎
Aiport (1975)
The first of the Airport movies and a good one during a winter storm.
Earthquake (1974)
Didn't get great reviews but in the theater they had bass Speakers spread around the room and under the seats that you could feel seconds before seeing it on screen.
Masterclass acting. Was 7 when this came out. Never gets old. A true classic from the master of disaster, Irwin Allen. Left a mark on me for sure. Great reaction!!!!
Both Red Buttons and Jack Albertson won Supporting Actor in years past meanwhile Shelley Winters(2 times Oscar winner) was a front runner for a third but lost to Eileen Heckart that year. Allegedly Alberstson(Manny) hated working with Winters(Mrs Rosen), I would never had guessed it.
Turning _into_ the wave is the best way to deal with it. The ship has a better chance of survival.