The Poseidon Adventure (1972) movie poster

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

"Hell, upside down."
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👍 74%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 76%
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Director
Ronald Neame
Runtime
1h 57m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.1/10 (966 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
81%
Metacritic
70

Cast

Gene Hackman as Reverend Scott · 73% avg
Ernest Borgnine as Mike Rogo · 76% avg
Stella Stevens as Linda Rogo
Shelley Winters as Belle Rosen · 78% avg
Jack Albertson as Manny Rosen · 80% avg
Red Buttons as James Martin · 76% avg
Roddy McDowall as Acres · 77% avg
Carol Lynley as Nonnie Parry

Is The Poseidon Adventure good?

Most people think so. 74% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 76%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#853 / 1446 · Adventure
Rank in its year
#13 / 22 · 1972

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

r/movies
⬆ 3,310💬 300 comments
'The Poseidon Adventure' at 50: When Gene Hackman brought dignity to disaster. A rattling yet goofily constructed disaster movie is elevated into a classic by the actor taking on a self-confessed ‘money job’ yet turning it into art and keeping the film from sinking the depths of self-parody.
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Top comment: "Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine in the same film rocked it. 100% enjoyed this growing up"
r/MovieDetails
⬆ 2,719💬 62 comments
The singing nun in Airplane! (1980) is played by Maureen McGovern, who sang the well known songs from several disaster films of the 1970's including The Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Airplane! itself parodies a film in the genre, Airport (1970).
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Top comment: "And the little old white lady who translates jive for the stewardess was the actress who played..."
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