Pre-viewed for quality and played great on my JVC s-vhs deck. Cassette is nice and clean, box is really shelf worn around the edges with a couple of tiny nicks and scrapes on the cover. The Fox watermark is over McDowell & Winter's faces.
Ground breaking and first of its kind it created a whole new genre of filmmaking--the big cast disaster flick.
"Combining the talents of 15 Academy Award winners" The cruise ship Poseidon is on its last voyage from New York to Athens on New Year's Eve when it is capsized by a tidal wave. The survivors struggle to escape the water-logged tomb. Oscar-winning special effects are good as various stars forget which way is up.
Shelley Winters is an ex-swimming champ married to Jack Albertson. It's one of her heaviest roles in both senses of the word. Ernest Borgnine is a detective with an ex-prostitute wife (Stella Stevens). Gene Hackman gets top billing as a minister. With Carol Lynley as a "pop singer", Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, Angela Cartwright, Arthur O'Connell, Pamela Sue Martin, and Leslie Nielsen as the captain.
Remember--"There's got to be a morning after."