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DVD : Beyond the Poseidon AdventureIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden directed by: Irwin Allen  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0012569751644 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 22, 2006 Running Time: 114 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: May 18, 1979 Sales Rank: 23194 MPN: 75164 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: A monstrous tidal has left the luxury liner Poseidon capsized mid-ocean and its few survivors struggling to reach safety in an upside-down world. But The Poseidon Adventure was only the thrilling start. You must go Beyond the Poseidon Adventure to complete the white-knuckle suspense. Under producer/director Irwin Allen, Michael Caine and Sally Field head an all-star cast caught in the crippled craft's flaming corridors and bursting bulwarks. Tug skipper Caine, first mate Karl Malden and passenger Field enter the foundering vessel hoping for salvage rights, miraclulously finding more survivors. But others have come aboard, led by sinister Dr. Stefan Svevo (Telly Savalas). He wants a priceless cargo of plutonium - and will kill for his plunder! DVD Features: Additional Scenes Featurette Theatrical Trailer:Disaster movie trailers Amazon.com: When Maureen McGovern sang the torchy hit "The Morning After" in the original Poseidon Adventure, this probably wasn't what she had in mind. But for viewers, this post-disaster disaster film--which takes place immediately after the original Poseidon capsized--is fearlessly campy and surprisingly entertaining. As per the recipe for '70s catastrophe movies, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (directed and produced by the original's Irwin Allen) boasts a top-notch ensemble cast. Michael Caine is the crusty, opportunistic tug captain who comes across the wreck of the Poseidon and immediately declares, "Salvage! Salvage is our salvation." Along for the ride on Caine's tug are Karl Malden and a still ingénue-ish Sally Field. They meet up mid-ocean with the suave doctor/rescuer Telly Savalas, who may not be all he says he is. And inside the wreck, incredibly, there are survivors. The film may follow a fairly predictable formula by this time (1979), but it's fun nonetheless. The effects are just right, there's plenty of treachery and tension to keep things moving along merrily, and the capsizing of the boat means the set consists of upside-down ship innards (blessedly, this also means the shag carpeting is on the ceiling, rarely seen). Families and couples are wrenched apart, unscrupulous bastards reveal hearts of gold, and the plucky ones (almost) always survive. Among the rest of the cast are Shirley Jones as the Poseidon's nurse, Peter Boyle as a passenger and concerned dad, and a baby-faced Mark Harmon as a farming kid from "back home" in Iowa, cute as the early-years Beatles. Extras include a vintage making-of featurette (perms! elephant bells!) and a montage of the era's disaster-film trailers, a movie-buff time capsule in itself. --A.T. Hurley Average Rating:
 Rating:  - BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTUREThis is a fair movie to watch and a must have for anybody who wants to comeplet there POSEIDON ADVENTURE movie set this movie puicks up after the first group of people is taken off the upside down ocean liner the movie is fair but not is good as the first one. Rating:  - What was Irwin thinking???I was 13 when I saw the original Poseidon Adventure, and was mezzmerized by it! Being the first big screen action packed flick i'd ever seen..it was HUGE! When this sequal came out in august of 1979 I was first in line!..wow..what an aweful movie. their was no thought, special effects acting, script or much of any of Irwin Allens talents in this...what happened?? budget problems? what? it was filmed with such a low cost feel too it, lots of stock footage from the original, poor set designs! ... Read More Rating: - Not a complete washout"I knew it! I knew my luck couldn't be that bad! Nothing was going to get worse because nothing could've!" Wrong again. A couple of years after swearing nothing on Earth would make him leave the UK, Michael Caine went into tax exile in Hollywood and signed up for a slew of "But it looked good on paper" pictures, getting off to an inauspicious start with the now forgotten period comedy Harry and Walter Go to New York, a huge flop so horrendously expensive that it very nearly bankrupted Columbia Pictures ... Read More Rating:  - I like this movieOf couse the stars are changed, but Michael Caine, and Sally Feild, are a nice change. Rating: - Annoying movieThe DVD quality was fine, but the movie was boring and unnecessary. I loved the original, so I was hoping this sequel would be good but is wasn't. There wasn't anything original about it, and I couldn't wait for it to end. Browse for similar items by category:
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