Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 10/24/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Robert Stack and
Dorothy Malone are Cliff and Laurie Henderson, a married couple on a vacation with their young daughter (
Tammy Marihugh), taking their first sea voyage aboard the aging ocean liner Claridon. All is well for them, but not for the ship below decks, where a fire has broken out. The engine room crew, led by Chief Engineer Steven Pringle (
Jack Kruschen) and 2nd Engineer Walsh (
Edmond O'Brien) extinguish the blaze, but the ship's captain (
George Sanders) refuses their request to shut down the boilers and check for further damage. Disaster follows as the boilers explode, taking Pringle with them and blasting a hole through to the upper decks and an opening to the sea that's not only too big to patch but allowing in too much water for the pumps to handle. Still, the Captain won't order the passengers to the lifeboats -- he hopes that the engine room crew under Walsh can hold the bulkhead and keep the ship afloat. Meanwhile, Cliff has to rescue his daughter from their wrecked stateroom, and must do what he can to help Laurie, who is trapped beneath a huge piece of steel bulkhead, while the ship slowly loses its battle with the sea.
~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
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A reviewer
from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
An All-Too-Real-Life Sea Disaster Epic.
To heighten the realism of the film, producers Andrew and Virginia Stone decide to sink an actual luxury cruise ship that was due to be scrapped. Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, and George Sanders star in this very real sea disaster epic. The real-life USS Claridon, a luxury cruise ship faces disaster when a boiler room explosion causes the ship to begin sinking and the crew and passengers face a life and death situation to escape. Also starring Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, Jack Kruschen, Tammy Marihugh, George Furness, and Marshall Kent.
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