
Cliff Henderson and his family are traveling aboard the SS Claridon en route to Japan. She is an old ship on her fifth and last voyage before heading to the scrap yard. An explosion in the engine room weakens the hull and the ship is now taking on more water than the bilge pumps can deal with. The captain seems to have difficulty accepting that his ship will sink. Cliff's wife, Laurie, is severely injured and trapped under a fallen steel beam in their cabin. While the men in ... (Full plot summary below)
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Cliff Henderson and his family are traveling aboard the SS Claridon en route to Japan. She is an old ship on her fifth and last voyage before heading to the scrap yard. An explosion in the engine room weakens the hull and the ship is now taking on more water than the bilge pumps can deal with. The captain seems to have difficulty accepting that his ship will sink. Cliff's wife, Laurie, is severely injured and trapped under a fallen steel beam in their cabin. While the men in the engine room work frantically to shore up the hull, Cliff tries to free Laurie from the wreckage with the help of one of crew member Hank Lawson.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's great on raising the level of tension, and its special effects and unique filming style are also great. |
| User ReviewCarlton RWoody Strode is fantastic in this disaster classic from 1960 |
| User ReviewJessica HI saw this movie when I was a little girl and recently decided to see if I could locate it on DVD. I did and it was just as good as when I originially saw it. Who needs Titanic when you can have real people on a real flooded ship and not on some gigantic backlot?! The premise...a sinking ocean liner, a trapped woman, a loyal husband and a heroic ship hand may be formulaic but it works here. The movie also makes a statement regarding race...the scene where Woody Strode offers to take the little girl and put her on a life boat...well everyone knows you can't trust black men with your white daughter! But this movie rises above that as Robert Stack (at first giving Woody a double take) entrusts his daughter to a stranger and a black man. The camera work is great...as they are leaving the flooding ocean liner (the real deal BTW...Ile de France or something like that...real luxury ocean liner) you can see the camera moving and being splashed with water. The little girl in the movie over-acts except for 2 scenes...the one where she is trapped on a ledge in front of a gaping hole in the ship which requires her to crawl across a plank to the safety of Robert Stack. The second is where Woody Strode is taking her back to the deck away from her mother. She fights him all the way, sobbing. She even holds onto the door. Both great scenes. I give this movie a '10' because it's a 'throw back' to when actors REALLY had to be physically fit to do movies, because of the realism of the danger and because I love old movies that are really good. We are 'special effects' to death today! It thrilled me at 10 and 40+years later, I still enjoyed it! |
| User Reviewbill sanother cruise ship actioner like 'titanic' or "the posidan adventure" |
| User ReviewPete SHalf-decent thriller will a sense of realism brought about by the dialogue, stunt work and lack of an underscoring soundtrack. |
| User ReviewP MPRETTY GOOD DISASTER FLICK ABOUT A LUZURY OCEAN LINER SINKING. THE ACTING IS A BIT OVER THE TOP BUT THERE ARE SOME GOOD SPECIAL EFFECTS. IT WAS INTERESTING. |
| User ReviewDave JWritten and directed by Andrew L. Stone starring Robert Stack and |
| User ReviewWilliam KOld-fashioned disaster movie istold straightforwardly (the catastrophe begins in the first seconds before the credits) and with a solid cast, but the excitement is somewhat limited. |