Did you ever see "Voyage Of The Damned" (1976)?

I saw it in the theater when it came out, but I remember very little of it.

Very underrated film. It’s usually lumped together with those ALL STAR Airplane/Towering Inferno type movies. Even Katharine Ross was good. Lee Grant goes way over the top but she got an Oscar nomination so what do I know.

Oh dear, I just read the catch line on the poster. They were wrong. I have *not* remembered it as long as I've lived.

Amazingly inappropriate trailer

This man was on the boat. His story is extraordinary.

I thought it was very 70s "All-Star Cast" a la The Towering Inferno. Pretty mediocre. I think today it could be very effective as a mini-series on one of the streaming channels.

Were there any JEWS in that cast? Today there would be a shitstorm for filling parts with actors whose ethnicity doesn't match the character's.

Lee Grant is Jewish. Most of them were not.

Another all star cast movie from the 1970s was "The Hindenburg".

Her agent must have pulled strings to have his client billed as "Anne Bancroft as the Countess".

Was that the movie where Lee rended her clothing? If so, I remember that, otherwise...nada.

Ship of Fools it wasn't.

Lee’s hubby starts stabbing himself and jumps overboard. She flies into hysterics in her cabin and starts cutting her hair off. Faye (no stranger to haircuts) slaps her.

And then Julie Harris cuts off her nipples.

That's Reflections in a Golden Eye, R13. But you knew that.

That I sorta remember now, r12.

Voyage of the Damn! Damn! Damn!

Faye was no stranger to slaps either.

[quote] —Oskar W.

R11 So were you in an alcoholic haze all through this movie?

These kind of movie are sad.

Watching former-stars getting only 5 minutes of screen time in a studio in front of a back-projection screen.

Poor James, Wendy, Maria.

Her character wore a monocle. I swear!

Monocles were very Weimar.

I love Faye and Lee in this movie. Wendy Hiller is good as well.

Faye is at the height of her gorgeousity.

Any hot guys on that ship?

R20 Yes! It was fabulous!

and she wore knee high boots with it!

Oh dear, those pictures tell us that Oskar was slipping into his alcoholic phase.

It was no Hindenburg

Hated the Broadway musical comedy version: "That Darned Ship!"

Oskar got the role after Franco Nero and Helmut Berger turned it down. Meh.

Fabio Testi = uber-hottie

I saw it in a theater when it came out, and I thought it was clumsily directed, heavy-handed and overlong.

I haven't seen it in decades, but the thing I remember most about it was that it had way too many close-up - like a 1970s TV movie but with a big budget.

There's a real film to be made of this story; this movie just isn't it.

I'd be curious to see how I'd react to it now.

But I'm not that curious.

R30, great pic. Yes, Fabio was in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971) with Helmut Berger. Fabio Testi and Franco Nero are the HOTTEST Italians!

Thank you, r31, it all comes back to me now! How right you are.

What's the storyline?

'Twas no good ship lollypop.

No, r35,....it 'twasn't.

That poster is really deceptive. It makes it look like The Poseidon Adventure type disaster film. It's not.

Miss Dunaway must have been delighted with the billing though. Prominently on top with no one else on the same line even.

Funny how Katharine Ross won the Golden Globe but it was Lee Grant who got the Oscar nomination instead.

So many movies I remember from that time because I worked at a movie theater and we got passes to other theaters in the chain.

Another ill-fated ship...of the road

Was it a gay cruise?

This was the '76 gay cruise film.

R39

My jaw is on the floor.

In her memoir, Lee Grant frankly says that she was surprised to be nominated and "figured it was for shaving part of my head. It was the sympathy vote." She also says she acted like "an insecure diva" on the set, perhaps schooling co-star Miss Dunaway in how to throw a mean salad.

I agree that Wendy Hiller was wonderful.

The book "While Six Million Died" includes the true story of the St. Louis,

It was kind of like one of those COVID cruise ships that no one would let in.

I preferred the Richard Amsel poster, his work was always so stylish!

I saw it in the theatre, too. (Yes, I’m an eldergay!) An impressive cast, but some of the roles the stars had were really tiny. Beyond that, the only things O remember is that is was overlong and ingenue Lynne Frederick was really lovely.

More like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!

Did all movie posters look alike back then?

What was the last movie where Ben Gazzara was still considered sexy?

Opening Night, maybe?

R48, who?

Isn't this piece of shit 3 hours long?????

No way.

R48, Ben was hot as fuck in "A Rage to Live".

"Ben wanted Kim Stanley. He got Elaine."

Everyone wanted Kim Stanley. Expectations were high. She was going to be big in Hollywood.

[quote] Everyone wanted Kim Stanley.

Blind men, especially. But the discerning men said 'No!'.

[quote] …this piece of shit 3 hours long…

Something of that length needs to be carefully placed in the nearest toilet!

Ben was hot AF in the gay-themed The Strange One (1958) with DL fave George Peppard!

[quote] I preferred the Richard Amsel poster

I like it too, R45, even though some of the faces are verging on caricature.

[quote] … Julie Harris cuts off her nipples

Yes, R13, that scene was Harris' defining moment in American cinema.

R57, Didn't she cut them off with hedge clippers?

R52, Elaine aged better than Kim, but not by much.

^ That woman has a jaw line like the late James Mason.

A conga. Play a conga!

I was in high school and went with a bunch of equally knuckle-headed friends just based on the title (which was something you did back then if you were bored out of your skulls on a random Friday night). We assumed it was going to be a horror movie of some sort.

We were wrong.

We walked out about half way through when it became obvious that Satan would not be involved.

R58...

Leonora : Cutting off her nipples with garden shears! You call that normal?

Lt. Col. Morris Langdon : Well, the doctors say she's neurotic.

I love "Reflections". Fascinating, top actors, crazy-ass storylines.

R64, The scene of Brando preening because he thinks Forster is coming to rendezvous with him is classic.

Those scenes of the preening Brando marked his transition from sex-symbol to joke.