Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
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Original film poster by Mort Künstler
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| Directed by | Irwin Allen |
| Produced by | Irwin Allen |
| Screenplay by | Nelson Gidding |
| Based on | Beyond the Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico |
| Starring |
Michael Caine Telly Savalas Sally Field Karl Malden Shirley Jones Jack Warden Peter Boyle Slim Pickens Mark Harmon |
| Music by | Jerry Fielding |
| Cinematography | Joseph Biroc |
| Edited by | Bill Brame |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American action-adventure disaster film and a sequel to The Poseidon Adventure (1972) directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine and Sally Field.
The film was a critical and commercial failure, and was the only Allen disaster film not to receive any Academy Award nominations.
The capsized luxury liner S.S. Poseidon is still afloat after six survivors have been rescued via helicopter.
Tugboat captain Mike Turner (Michael Caine) discovers the shipwreck. Accompanied by second mate Wilbur (Karl Malden) and passenger Celeste Whitman (Sally Field), he heads out to claim salvage rights, as the tugboat Jenny lost her cargo in the same tsunami that capsized the Poseidon.
They are soon followed by Dr. Stefan Svevo (Telly Savalas) and his crew, who claim to be Greek Orthodox medics who received the ship's SOS. They board the doomed vessel through the bottom hull opening left by the Greek rescue team, and become trapped after the entrance collapses. The group with Turner also encounters the ship's nurse, Gina Rowe (Shirley Jones) and two passengers - Suzanne Constantine (Veronica Hamel), and war veteran Frank Mazzetti (Peter Boyle) who is searching for his missing daughter Theresa (Angela Cartwright), whom they soon find along with the elevator operator Larry Simpson (Mark Harmon) and as well as a "billionaire" named "Tex" (Slim Pickens). Later they find the blind Harold Meredith (Jack Warden) and his wife Hannah (Shirley Knight), who were waiting to be rescued.
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