Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Page #2

Synopsis: After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
Genre: Action, Adventure
Director(s): Irwin Allen
Production: Warner Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
4.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
0%
PG
Year:
1979
114 min
176 Views


If you don't come back, I'll die up here.

- That is a definite possibility.

- Oh, come off it, Turner.

I know you're a tough guy,

but you're not a son of a b*tch...

...no matter how bad you want me

to think you are, are you?

Sit down.

- Ready?

- Yeah.

I hope you're a religious man, captain.

I've taken the liberty of saying

a small prayer for us.

All of us?

Well, it's my feeling that

from this time on...

...our fates are necessarily intertwined.

Good, then you won't be offended...

...if I remind you

of that fact from time to time.

The French coast guard

must have cut a hole in the ship.

Skipper, I'm telling you,

it's a floating time bomb.

Hazards of the trade. Let's go.

Hold it.

We've gotta find a way down.

Like over there, maybe.

- Where?

- There.

Take a look, Wilbur.

This will do.

Yeah, this'll do it. Come on.

Here, this way.

It's the escape hatch

for the engine-room crew.

Coming, monkey?

Why not?

Where are we?

- Looks like a mess.

- It's the gym.

Just hold on and help him.

- What happened?

- The ventilators collapsed.

- You got him?

- I got him.

Come on.

Come on, you can make it.

- How is he?

- He'll be all right.

- Is everyone else all right?

- I'm fine.

Okay, we're locked in.

No way of getting out there now.

Sure there is. There must be

another entrance into that engine...

What's so funny, doctor?

Let us in on it.

I'm sure we could all use

a good laugh right about now.

I find it ironic, that's all, captain...

...that I've suddenly become one of the

very people I came down here to rescue.

Doctor, that little prayer you said

for all of us up there...

...what sort of religion

would that happen to be?

Greek Orthodox.

Greek Orthodox. No kidding?

I'm a Greek Orthodox too...

...suddenly.

Wilbur, switch the steam off.

Over here.

- Are you the rescue team?

- We used to be.

Last night was the worst

New Year's party I've ever been to.

I mean, everything turns upside down.

What a party. What a night.

Look, I lost my daughter.

- You gotta help me find my daughter.

- Calm down, mister. Just calm down.

I'm Captain Mike Turner...

...and I have the salvage rights

to this wreck.

Now, who are you people?

I'm Gina Rowe, the ship's nurse.

It all happened so quickly.

We never knew what happened.

- Any other survivors?

- There couldn't be.

We can't be sure of that, Suzanne.

Mr. Mazzetti,

Suzanne and myself...

...we were following

some other passengers...

...and we got separated from them...

...and we stumbled

into the steam room.

It looked like a safe place, at the time.

- It was until that pipe broke.

- Look, forget the pipe.

Help me find my daughter,

I'll give you everything I got.

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Nelson Gidding

Nelson Roosevelt Gidding (September 15, 1919 – May 1, 2004) was an American screenwriter specializing in adaptations. A longtime collaboration with director Robert Wise began with Gidding's screenplay for I Want to Live! (1958), which earned him an Oscar nomination. His long-running course on screenwriting adaptions at the University of Southern California inspired screenwriters of the present generation, including David S. Goyer. Gidding was born in New York and attended school at Phillips Exeter Academy; as a young man he was friends with Norman Mailer. After graduating from Harvard University, he entered the Army Air Forces in World War II as the navigator on a B-26. His plane was shot down over Italy, but he survived; he spent 18 months as a POW but effected an escape. Returning from the war, in 1946 he published his only novel, End Over End, begun while captive in a German prison camp. In 1949, Gidding married Hildegarde Colligan; together they had a son, Joshua Gidding, who today is a New York City writer and college professor. In Hollywood, Gidding entered work in television, writing for such series as Suspense and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and eventually moved into feature films like The Helen Morgan Story (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), The Haunting (1963), Lost Command (1966), The Andromeda Strain (1971), and The Hindenburg (1975). After the death of his first wife on June 13, 1995, in 1998 Gidding married Chun-Ling Wang, a Chinese immigrant. Gidding taught at USC until his death from congestive heart failure at a Santa Monica hospital in 2004. more…

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