READ THIS FIRST: This is a 12-inch Diameter Laserdisc, which is NOT the same as DVD and cannot be played on a DVD player!

Laserdisc Title: "THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972)"
Edition: Special Widescreen Edition (Single Disc)
Directed By: Ronald Neame
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens-
Production / Year: 1972 Twentieth Century Fox Film
Running Time: 117 Minutes / Color
Audio Format: Digital Sound, Stereo Surround, Stereo, CX Encoded
Video Format: LTBX, NTSC, CLV (Extended Play)
Miscellaneous Features: Rated PG
Distributed By: CBS/Fox Video
Catalog / Spine Number: 1058-85

Cosmetic Condition
Disc (s): UNOPENED / FACTORY SEALED
Jacket: UNOPENED / FACTORY SEALED

Synopsis:

Hands down, this is the best movie (and was one of the first) to come out of the seemingly endless cycle of disaster movies that dominated box offices during the 1970s. It could even be argued that Titanic owes some of its success to the precedent set by this 1972 blockbuster starring Gene Hackman as a priest who leads a small group of survivors to safety from the bowels of a capsized luxury liner. From its stellar cast to its cheesy, Oscar-winning theme song, The Morning After, the movie has all the ingredients of a popular classic, beginning with a New Year's Eve celebration aboard the ill-fated Poseidon and ending as a pop allegory when the Hackman character becomes a Christ-like martyr. Filmed on spectacular sets where everything down is up and the ship's thick hull points in the direction of salvation, this is "a waterlogged Grand Hotel" (in the words of New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael) that is as entertaining as it is unabashedly brainless. The Poseidon Adventure is filled with performances that rise above the limits of the screenplay. It's also the only movie--unless you count her underwater corpse in Night of the Hunter--that lets Shelley Winters strut her stuff as an aquatic heroine. Who could ask for anything more?

The Poseidon is sailing from New York to Athens packed full of holiday passengers. After surviving a bit of rough weather, the Poseidon soon resumes sailing in calm seas. However, a report is delivered to the Captain, played by Leslie Nielsen, describing an undersea earthquake near 8 on the richter scale. This quake is causing huge waves due to the shock, and the Poseidon, on her last voyage, is heading directly into the epicenter of the quake. Soon, a huge wall of water slams into the ship and leaves it capsized, with the hull facing up. Rev. Scott soon manages to save a group of passengers by having them climb up the large atrificial Christmas tree located in the main ballroom to a balcony on the next level.

The group is soon snaking their way through the doomed vessel, trying to reach the engine room. The hull is only supposed to be an inch thick in the engine room, so Rev. Scott seems to think that this would be their best place to be rescued. Meanwhile, the inevitable conflicts break out among the group members, especially between Scott and Mr. Rogo. Despite these arguments, the group manages to keep moving upwards toward the hull. The upturned tables and, in one scene, barberchairs, add greatly to the capsized illusion. After some harrowing escapes, and despite the loss of a few of the survivors along the way, the group manages to finally reach the engine room, but will they be rescued or is it too late?

THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER

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