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Passengers aboard capsized luxury liner race through ruined ship to reach bottom and possible rescue before it sinks. Solid adventure film based on Paul Gallico's novel. The savvy script by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes jettisons Gallico's introspection and focuses on the action, while the ensemble cast, led by Gene Hackman as a rah-rah reverend and Ernest Borgnine as a belligerent cop, makes it all believable. Also with Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Roddy McDowall, Carol Lynley, and others. Remade in 2006 as Poseidon.
Passengers aboard capsized luxury liner race through ruined ship to reach bottom and possible rescue before it sinks. Solid adventure film based on Paul Gallico's novel. The savvy script by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes jettisons Gallico's introspection and focuses on the action, while the ensemble cast, led by Gene Hackman as a rah-rah reverend and Ernest Borgnine as a belligerent cop, makes it all believable. Also with Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Roddy McDowall, Carol Lynley, and others. Remade in 2006 as Poseidon.
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