The Poseidon Adventure
- Release Date
- December 13, 1972
- Director
- Ronald Neame , Irwin Allen
- Cast
- Gene Hackman , Ernest Borgnine , Red Buttons , Carol Lynley , Roddy McDowall , Stella Stevens
- Runtime
- 117
- Main Genre
- Action
- Writers
- Paul Gallico , Stirling Silliphant , Wendell Mayes
- Tagline
- Who will survive-in one of the greatest escape adventures ever!
Summary
At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90' tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.
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