The Last Voyage

The Last Voyage
Original poster
Directed by	Andrew L. Stone
Produced by	Andrew L. Stone Virginia L. Stone
Written by	Andrew L. Stone
Starring	Robert Stack Dorothy Malone George Sanders Edmond O'Brien Woody Strode George Furness Jack Kruschen Tammy Marihugh
Music by	Andrew L. Stone Virginia L. Stone
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Virginia L. Stone
Production company	Andrew and Virginia Stone Productions
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	February 19, 1960
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,370,000
Box office	$2,060,000

The Last Voyage is a 1960 American disaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone.

The screenplay centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room. There are some plot similarities to the disaster involving the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria, which sank after a collision four years earlier.

The film begins with a view of the SS Claridon, as the narrator (George Furness, who also plays Third Officer Osborne in the film) states, "The SS Claridon, a proud ship, a venerable ship, but as ships go, an old ship. A very old ship. For 38 years she's weathered everything the elements could throw at her. Typhoons, zero-zero fogs, the scorching heat of the tropics. Now she is scheduled for only five more crossings. Then a new ship, a posh, streamlined beauty, will take her place. It is then that the Claridon will pass into oblivion. She has an appointment with the scrapyard. But it's an appointment she'll never keep. For this is her last voyage."

Cliff and Laurie Henderson and their daughter, Jill, are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished quickly, but not before a boiler fuel supply valve is fused open. Before Chief Engineer Pringle can manually open a steam relief valve, a huge explosion rips through the boiler room and the many decks situated above it, killing him and some of the passengers and trapping Laurie under a steel beam in their stateroom, in addition to causing widespread panic and opening a huge hole in the side of the ship.

Cliff runs back to their stateroom and finds that he can't get Laurie out alone. He then finds Jill trapped on the other side of the room. He tries to use a shattered piece of the bed to get to the other side, but it falls through the huge hole caused by the explosion. Third Officer Osborne believes that the crew should start loading passengers into the lifeboats, but Captain Robert Adams is reluctant, as he never lost a ship. He tries to reassure them that they are in no immediate danger but this doesn't help calm them. Cliff finally manages to rescue Jill by using a board to have her crawl across the hole on. Down in the boiler room, Second Engineer Walsh reports to Captain Adams that a seam to the bulkhead has broken away. Cliff tries to get the help of a steward, but to no avail. A passenger states that he overheard his conversation, and wants to help.