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The Poseidon Adventure
IMDB ^ | 1972 | Wendall Mayes

Posted on 06/05/2022 4:06:08 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Nine people explore a cruise ship at sea in a manner that turns their whole lives upside down.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: poseidonadventure
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To: CTyank

OMG! Thank you for posting that!! Will get myself a bag of Twizzlers and go back to childhood...


21 posted on 06/05/2022 4:31:01 PM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: turfmann

I cry every time Stella Stevens dies in that little shirt.


22 posted on 06/05/2022 4:31:05 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: karatemom
Gene Hackman’s character was new age-y pastor. We watched it not too long ago and I turned to my husband and said ,”What kind of sermon was that??”

Yes, that was the new subliminal message of the "God Is Dead" cult.

23 posted on 06/05/2022 4:32:00 PM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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To: FlipWilson

Stella Stevens and Ernest Borgnine provide comic relief.


24 posted on 06/05/2022 4:32:30 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: gdzla

Lol! If I’d been a passenger, I would’ve been horrified!


25 posted on 06/05/2022 4:33:10 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: dfwgator

Good luck, we’re all counting on you


26 posted on 06/05/2022 4:33:30 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: meowmeow
You can re-read the MAD MAGAZINE version here.

It's in video form so you have to pause each panel and make it full screen so you can easily read the dialogue boxes. I actually like it in this format.

The lines that MAD gives to the Leslie Nielson character are hilarious, exactly what you would expect in a Leslie Nielson comedy!

27 posted on 06/05/2022 4:33:41 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,195,621 active users on Truth Social)
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To: DallasBiff

They didn’t wear their mask. That’s why they died.


28 posted on 06/05/2022 4:36:24 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: LouAvul

We tried watching the newer version but it was so bad we turned it off about half way through. That one had an “every man for himself “ theme where as in the original the characters were working together to survive. Signs of the times I suppose.


29 posted on 06/05/2022 4:37:44 PM PDT by karatemom
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To: BradyLS

Wasn’t that Benny Hill in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in a rare early straight role as the toymaker?


30 posted on 06/05/2022 4:42:06 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: DallasBiff

Saw it back then 1972. Years later I am watching the movie DAYLIGHT with Sylvester Stallone, about taxi riders trapped in a tunnel under the NY harbor.

After a while I began to know what was coming next, and who would be killed next. Then I realized I was just watching a remake of POSEIDON ADVENTURE under the NY harbor. I believe the actual term for a rewrite script is “haircut”.


31 posted on 06/05/2022 4:43:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm)
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To: desertsolitaire

I don’t know as I have yet to see it. But Wikipedia backs you up!


32 posted on 06/05/2022 4:45:03 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dynachrome
"...They didn’t wear their mask. That’s why they died..."

No - They all Were / Were Not VACCINATED - and THAT is why they all died.

33 posted on 06/05/2022 4:48:53 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: DallasBiff

You also see the hostility toward Christianity on display in the Gene Hackman character.


34 posted on 06/05/2022 4:56:18 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: DallasBiff

Borgnine was very good in that movie.


35 posted on 06/05/2022 4:56:50 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President! )
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To: wally_bert

Remember him as The Swamp Fox when I was a kid. Was also in an early episode of Wagon Train.


36 posted on 06/05/2022 4:56:54 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: mware

Streets Of San Francisco a few times.


37 posted on 06/05/2022 4:57:38 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: DallasBiff

Pamela Sue Martin got this young boy excited.


38 posted on 06/05/2022 5:03:42 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Waverunner

I’ve always used the poseiden adventure as a analogy for Democratic behavior. Remember the aristocratic purser leading people down deeper into a sinking ship promising that if they follow him they will be saved? Only an idiot, raised on the propaganda of the “aristocratic class” being smarter than everyone else, would believe that going DEEPER into a sinking ship would bring them to the surface in order to be rescued. And yet here we are now....with Biden as the purser. We are SO doomed!


39 posted on 06/05/2022 5:25:45 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" LStar)
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To: DallasBiff

It was a good movie... Loved when both MAD and Cracked did a spoof on it...In MAD the survivors got on the Titantic 🤓 Cracked had them eaten by Jaws...


40 posted on 06/05/2022 5:32:14 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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