The Poseidon Adventure 1972

What’s your point OP?

Christ, can you at least have a reason for posting a new thread?

How dare you! How fucking dare you!!!!

My Dad took my brother and me to see it at the Albee Theater in downtown Cincinnati, across from Fountain Square. I think I was around 12 years old, and we had to wait in line, even though the theater wasn't all that crowded. But the Albee was huge, with a 5 story auditorium. Edward Albee came to Cincinnati to direct a number of plays, and had a huge impact on the local theater scene. He helped to gain us legitimacy. :He actually cruised me at one of our last dirty bookstores. Anyway, I loved 'The Poseidon Adventure', and used to like to portray a damsel in distress, at Sunlite Pool, while I wrapped my beach towel around my head to go down the water slide.

I'm dumb R2. Here's the old (demolished) thing.

Glad to see r1 did his job.

OP, you muppet!

One of the last fun movies where diversity wasn’t forced upon us.

But there had to be a morning after, didn’t there?

What a stupid comment R5. You poor thing, being assaulted by diversity since 1972.

R2 did you ever frequent Golden Lions on Ludlow? I too grew up in Cincy and loved the Albee. I saw one of the Pink Panther movies there and came to love Peter Sellars.

it seems to me we saw this on Christmas Day evening

It's kinda morbidly entertaining movie where the fun starts when lives end.

I'm Shirley Jones, the ship's nurse.

Sorry, [R11], but you weren't. At least not in this picture. In The Poseidon Adventure the nurse was played by Irwin Allen's wife, Sheila Matthews Allen. Shirley got to take the role in the blighted sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Now that's a film that should have a DL thread! Michael Caine, Sally Field, Slim Pickens, Telly Savalas, Angela Cartwright, Mark Harmon, Karl Malden, Jack Warden, Shirley Knight, Peter Boyle...

R8, Yes, I went to the Golden Lions, but I think it was sort of a transition time. I actually lived pretty close (I went to school in Clifton, but grew up in Winton Place). My first time there, I was 17, and I shouldn't have been there. I think I normally ended up at the Subway, downtown, but that's because I moved downtown when I was 18. To this day, I'm a bit naive.

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R2 - we are the same age. The Poseidon Adventure was the first movie I went to just with friends - no adults. It was at a theater in Houston, TX - maybe in Montrose. It was a HUGE movie theater - and I LOVED the movie, I even got the 45 of Maureen McGovern singing, "There's Got To Be A Morning After" and played it OVER and OVER and OVER again in the room and sang along. What a little queen I was...

Remind me, why did Pamela Sue Martin have to take off her velveteen skirt to climb the Christmas tree? I understood Stella needing to leave off the slinky dress to get up, but why Pamela? But regardless, it all seemed like some kind of sleazy peekaboo even at my young age.

*pee

Wow! Found a picture of it!

Christ on a cracker! Some OCD DLer builds an exact replica of the ballroom out of craft materials and it takes over his living room. This is the first of three videos.

I saw this when I was 14. Sort of the perfect age for it. I 'fell in with bad companions' before meeting my friend Steve at the movie (i. e. my skater friends who were actually good companions) who got me so wasted and I watched the movie in that state. It felt like I took LSD. I thought everything was hilarious or I cried a lot. Oh - has anyone ever seen the stage musical parodies that are done of this? I hear they're funny.

[quote]What a little queen I was...

"WAS"?

Is anyone here familiar with the stage musical version of the film? It was originally produced by Hell In A Handbag Productions in Chicago -The original cast album is a hoot! Belle Rosen (Shelly Winters) was played by a man in drag, and Reverend Scott (Gene Hackman) by a woman. Robin Shelby (Eric Shea) has a gay thing going with the Third Engineer...

I was 8 when our family went to the majestic Palace Theater in downtown Canton to watch this. We sat through it three times.

It was terrifying to me, but I could not turn away. My sister and I cried several times, and sobbed when Mrs. Rosen died. I dreamed of running into Robin, who I thought was so cute. (I also had a big crush on Bobby Brady, so I had a type.) I also begged my parents to buy the 45 of The Morning After, and wore it out in a month.

R20 - I'm a BIG queen now...

Gene Hackman was terrible in the movie (but then I rarely like Gene Hackman. Yeah I know. You do). He was just so annoying. Ernest Borgnine - who I usually do like - yelled at the top of his lungs for most of the film (until he died - I think. Sorry - spoilers, babe.) He and Stella Stevens were doing a variation of Wallace Beery and Jean Harlow. Which I thought after seeing it recently - not when I originally saw it, as a kid in a theater, when I had no idea who Beery and Harlow were. Or Stevens. Borgnine - well everyone knew him. McHale's Navy. Arthur O'Connell as a priest, right? Carol Lynley, singing. Or am I dreaming?

The 70s were sort of cool because you could still see a lot of the old movie stars when you went to a movie (like Shelley Winters) but the movies were often terrible. I think of this movie - an Irwin Allen production? - I think? as trying to be like the old movies of the 40s - much like Airport - but being less believable, more sort of Reader's Digest-like. And cheesier-looking, with grainy photography even when the movie was new. Still they were better than the ABC Movie Of The Week (where you could definitely also see a lot of old movie stars).

[quote] Ernest Borgnine - who I usually do like - yelled at the top of his lungs for most of the film (until he died - I think. Sorry - spoilers, babe.)

Borgnine’s character didn’t die.

[quote] Borgnine’s character didn’t die.

Oh, damn - sorry. Yeah that's why I wrote, "I think".

Glad he lived to yell another day and give people tinnitus.

Air pockets!