The Poseidon Adventure (1972) — DVD — New
One of the defining disaster films of the 1970s, The Poseidon Adventure follows passengers aboard the luxury ocean liner S.S. Poseidon after a massive wave capsizes the ship on New Year's Eve. With the vessel upside down and rapidly flooding, outspoken Reverend Frank Scott leads a small group of survivors through wrecked corridors and rising water in a desperate effort to reach safety.
Cast & Crew
- Gene Hackman — Reverend Frank Scott
- Ernest Borgnine — Detective Lieutenant Mike Rogo
- Shelley Winters — Belle Rosen
- Red Buttons — James Martin
- Carol Lynley — Nonnie Parry
- Roddy McDowall — Acres
- Stella Stevens — Linda Rogo
- Jack Albertson — Manny Rosen
- Pamela Sue Martin — Susan Shelby
- Arthur O'Connell — Chaplain John
- Leslie Nielsen — Captain Harrison
- Director — Ronald Neame
- Producer — Irwin Allen
- Based on the novel by Paul Gallico
Hollywood Connections & Trivia
- The film won two Academy Awards, including Best Original Song for “The Morning After” and a Special Achievement Award for visual effects.
- Shelley Winters received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
- Producer Irwin Allen became known as the “Master of Disaster” for spectacular films including The Towering Inferno (1974).
- The elaborate overturned-ship sets required actors to navigate rooms, passageways and staircases constructed to suggest a capsized ocean liner.
- The film was adapted from Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name.
DVD Details
- Film: The Poseidon Adventure
- Year: 1972
- Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Disaster
- Director: Ronald Neame
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 086162104220
- Condition: New
Edition note: The listing is for the DVD edition identified by UPC 086162104220 and the supplied cover. Bonus features and other pressing-specific specifications are not asserted without verification.