The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)

The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American actionadventure disaster film, directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallicos novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast, including five Academy Award winners Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. The cast also includes Carol Lynley, Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Leslie Nielsen, and Pamela Sue Martin. It won a Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects and an Academy Award for Best Original Song for The Song from the Poseidon Adventure aka The Morning After. Shelley Winters won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role. It also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Drama and for Best Original Score by John Williams.

A 1979 sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure also based on a novel by Gallico, was released later with an equally starstudded cast, but was a box office and critical failure.The S.S. Poseidon, an ocean liner slated for retirement and scrapping, makes her way across the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea from New York City to Athens. Despite protests from Captain Harrison Leslie Nielson, who fears for the ships safety, the representative of her new owners, Mr. Linarcos, insists that he would go at full speed or so knots towards Athens to save money, preventing him from taking on additional ballast. ........

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