The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a collection of memorable supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.
A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.
The main star acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.
An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.
Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.
The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the renowned French liner Île de France.
Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.
Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.
An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the term.
This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.
This adaptation of this writer's book is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.
Robert Redford delivers a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.
Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.
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