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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

The Poseidon Adventure
1972
***
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall

This entertaining and trashy disaster film is one of the better ones in its genre. After predictable exposition we get to know the characters, then the luxury cruise ship is capsized and the survivors must make their way up to the bottom. Remade as Poseidon in 2006.