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The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name.It has an ensemble cast including five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons.
The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969.It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the SS Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90-foot (27-meter) wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks.
Poseidon is a 2006 American action disaster film directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen.It is the third film adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure, and a loose remake of the 1972 film.
The capsized luxury liner S.S. Poseidon is still perilously afloat after six survivors had been rescued by the French Coast Guard.While at sea, tugboat captain Michael "Mike" Turner, and his elderly first mate, Wilbur, spot the very rescue helicopter containing the Poseidon's original survivors, and after having seen the aircraft so far out at sea, they are compelled to believe that a large ...
The survivors walked alone to their homes without a word being spoken. [3] Within four months and with the help of a ghostwriter, he completed an account of the disaster, the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex; this was used by Herman Melville as one of the inspirations for his novel Moby-Dick.
11-Year-Old Girl Survives 3 Days at Sea by Holding Onto Inner-Tube A search and rescue team may have missed an 11-year-old shipwreck survivor had it not been for what they called an "incredible ...
The four are survivors of a shipwreck, which occurred before the beginning of the story, and are drifting at sea in a small dinghy. In the following four sections, the moods of the men fluctuate from anger at their desperate situation, to a growing empathy for one another and the sudden realization that nature is indifferent to their fates.
Scientists aboard a research ship in 1981 discover the wreck of the Goliath lying upright in 1,000 feet (305 m) of water, [3] and divers are sent down to investigate the wreck. Oceanographer Peter Cabot ( Mark Harmon ) hears systematic banging and music coming from the ship [ 4 ] and is shocked to see the face of a beautiful young woman ( Emma ...