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Amazon.co.uk Review
Hands down, this is the best movie (and was one of the first) to come out of the seemingly endless cycle of disaster movies that dominated box offices during the 1970s. It could even be argued that Titanic owes some of its success to the precedent set by this 1972 blockbuster starring Gene Hackman as a priest who leads a small group of survivors to safety from the bowels of a capsized luxury liner. From its stellar cast to its cheesy, Oscar-winning theme song, The Morning After, the movie has all the ingredients of a popular classic, beginning with a New Year's Eve celebration aboard the ill-fated Poseidon and ending as a pop allegory when the Hackman character becomes a Christ-like martyr. Filmed on spectacular sets where everything down is up and the ship's thick hull points in the direction of salvation, this is "a waterlogged Grand Hotel" (in the words of New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael) that is as entertaining as it is unabashedly brainless. The Poseidon Adventure is filled with performances that rise above the limits of the screenplay. It's also the only movie--unless you count her underwater corpse in Night of the Hunter--that lets Shelley Winters strut her stuff as an aquatic heroine. Who could ask for anything more? --Jeff Shannon

DVD Description
Arguably the best adventure-disaster movie ever made, The Poseidon Adventure follows the final Mediterranean voyage of a luxury cruise liner, the S. S. Poseidon.
This classical film received a Special Achievement Academy award in 1972 for its spectacular visual effects, and also won an Oscar for its popular theme song The Morning after.

Product Details
Feature Running time: 112 minutes
Language: English
Subtitles: Hard of hearing English, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish.
Original Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (16x9)
Sound Quality: English 2.0 Mono
DVD Special features: Cast page with mini biographies, Making of featurette, Theatrical Trailer.

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