Original trailer Poseidon Adventure

This is the original theatrical trailer for the FIRST Poseidon Adventure.

[@SKINNYGINNYKITTIES]

An amazing film, far better then even some of today's movies. A brilliant cast, amazing plot, classic themes, ingenius actors/actresses..This movie is AWESOME! I am 14 and think this is one of the greatest movies of all time, all around. 10 STARS!

[@benjaminmonnet8671]

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[@CaptainJZH]

Happy 40th Poseidon Adventure!

[@jamessummers5946]

make that 45th

[@mariokarttourstudiosteambo5997]

Is it just me, or is Stella Steven's my favourite, I mean she forced the guys to move in the hatch to climb up the ladder.

[@mthivier]

That's funny, I first saw it in '72 at a drive-in too. My parents and I were in our car, and our neighbors and their son, who was my best friend at the time, were in their car right next to ours, and we kept laughing and waving to each other over some of the lame dialogue (particularly Ernest Borgnine's cursing and constant complaining, and Stella Stevens telling him to shut the hell up! -- "I know what suppatory is!"-- LOL). But the part where Shelly Winters died was very sad and emotional.

[@juan98hawk]

como no recordar esta pelicula , lo vi hace muchisimo es un clasico

[@TJamesBell]

Gotcha. Yeah. It is pretty good. Plus, a stellar cast of actors.

[@FAWLTYWORZELMELDREW]

Great film. Most of this fab cast have done many other great favorites of mine. Gene Hackman: Superman Films, A Bridge Too Far, Unforgiven, The Birdcage Ernest Borgnine: From Here To Eternity, The Wild Bunch, When Time Ran Out... Red Buttons: Longest Day, Pete's Dragon, Viva Knievel Roddy Mcdowall: Planet Of The Apes, Bedknobs & Broomsticks Shelley Winters: The Diary Of Anne Frank Jack Albertson: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory Leslie Nielsen: Airplane, Naked Gun Films, Spy Hard

[@TJamesBell]

All great films.

[@spidersoe]

This is the most great adventure film.

[@TJamesBell]

Oh yeah. You gotta check it out. It was a HUGE, HUGE blockbuster at the time. Like right up there with Jaws.

[@Dazman1313]

Even though I know Leslie Nielsen did have serious roles in films I still can't help thinking he's going to say something goofy/funny 'and don't call me Shirley!'.

[@logofilm8644]

I love Gene Hackman's performance in this film, French Connection II and The French Connection. That's why I came here.

[@TJamesBell]

@Logo Film Agreed. Great.

[@logofilm8644]

TJamesBell Thanks.

[@808Productionz]

Lol, imagine that, then imagine the original 1911 Poseidon Adventure film shot on the Titanic was shown to the passengers while the boat hit the iceberg and was scheduled for another showing that night since the passengers loved it so much. LOL

[@CaptainJZH]

I'm gonna straighten out all you guys who are saying that this couldn't happen. First of all the captain says the ship was low on ballast. The wave that hit the Poseidon was NOT a tsunami. It was a rouge wave, which DO exist and can be generated by underwater earthquakes (which is mentioned in the film). So, the Poseidon, was low on ballast, and was struck by a rouge wave(which is also called a tidal wave) and capsized. Happy?

[@TJamesBell]

@CaptainJZH Very true. BTW, it's spelled 'rogue'. You were close. You put rouge, as in makeup.

[@DavidRAMA]

Infierno en la torre y La aventura del poseidon son peliculas que jamás olvidare. El Vicho

[@SmoothCriminalAaron]

the effects still look better then the remake in my opinion

[@pokecraze357]

I thought the 1972 Poseidon (I saw that in 2005) was pretty good. And the 2006 Poseidon was also great. The new one had better special effects, but the older one had a bit of a "trapped" feeling because they didn't show above the surface. Both were good!

[@onede]

It was said from other actors on the set that Shelly Winters would eat hot chile with her bare hands. I dont know why anyone would do this but I guess its because its Shelly Winters.

[@TJamesBell]

I'm right with you on that one. Gene Hackman? Shelley Winters? Pamela Sue Martin! Babe of the century! Come on!! There's just no question. These kids just don't know what they're talking about.

[@lukapuka8320]

0:38 woah woah i didnt know there was more footage of that scene

[@brendabaloyan]

This was a Disaster Movie that was not a Disaster at the Box Office! Very Good Movie! Better than the new one they made!!!!

[@fastfiddler1625]

So... basically the whole movie in a nutshell.

[@dezboss]

They have good taste then!

[@justin19822]

@JWJNC serious i agree there was really sad to see the cast die off in the 70s one but i have to admist seeing the remake and what happened to the ship when it turned over twisted my stomach to hell it really did scare the hell out of me and truthfully i cared more about the ship getting hurt then the people hope that doesnt make me a bad person

[@Frienmugenheight]

Don't hate me but...this wasn't the first Poseidon Adventure. The first one was made in 1911 and most ironically of all was shown on the Titanic as it struck the iceberg that claimed the ship.

[@xtnjohnson]

@Beatpoet7371 @Beatpoet7371 "Tidal wave" is a misnomer, yes, but rogue waves (check the Wikipedia entry, to which -- to my annoyance -- youtube won't let link) are real and could produce the same result. Fortunately, they're quite rare, so much so that their occurrence has only recently been confirmed (see link).

[@coffee64girl]

esta pelicula es de 1.972, ya muchos de los actores estan muertos, incluso el que hacia del cura en el barco, era LEX LUTOR en Superman

[@jonathanjones5697]

facebook.com/ThePoseidonAdventure1972/The Facebook page on the making of the disaster classic

[@SuperClassichorror]

exactly!

[@moviemaker4678]

okay i wont look down

[@mthivier]

I wish the bratty little eight-year old kid had been among the 1,400.

[@JWJNC]

Not as good as the remake????? Oh my god, you must be a young person because the original had so much atmosphere and you actually cared about the characters. The new one had plenty of CGI, but will never light a candle to the first one. I never felt for the people in the new one that I did in the first one.

[@suribabeinaruba]

it is cool i realy want to see it

[@ramiroezequielmedina5990]

poseidón 2006

[@isuckatthesegames7119]

1:09 the only problem with the whole movie is showing acres dieing in the trailer

[@TJamesBell]

What? What do you mean 'acres'?

[@DBuilder]

Its like Titanic...only worse!(and by worse I mean more perilous, not bad, I love that movie!)

[@organboi]

horrible trailer. at the "in the early morning hours of new year's eve" wtf does that mean...and then, it say all the ACTORS' names as the people on the ship, NOT the characters. this is appalling. do they think we're idiots. i hated this time period in films. and this film is not great either. and the trailer tells us that 1400 people died. WTF! just give away the plot!

[@dogmd7]

They made horrible trailers back in the day.

[@Deatharrow5]

The newer movie is better.

[@malcolmmorin]

I feel like they never gave the 2006 remake a fair score. It had great effects, great music, and much more, and it gets an award for worst film remake. Did you fucking people not see the 2005 film? The 1972 film is not bad, and neither is the 2006 remake. But 2005...*facepalm*

[@brantfrans8595]

Classic Disaster movie. Many great actors.

[@urmamascornhole9137]

1972 DATS WHEN CAMERON DIAZ WAS BORN

[@CaptainJZH]

I remember when I first saw this movie in 1972 when I was 13 years old at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, PA

[@summersalt3629]

1:04 "don't look down..." yeah, 'cause everybody's gonna be looking up her dress

[@justarandomguy1977]

Watched this movie for the first time, yesterday. Irwin Allen, Gene Hackman, John Williams FTW.

[@JENDALL714]

I always imagined that since this was an Irwin Allen Production that the first draft of the script had a huge monster capsizing the ship instead of a giant wave. If you are young and don't know, Irwin Allen was famous for cheesy monsters in alot of his shows, like Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

[@TJamesBell]

Guess he ran out of cheese.

[@SaoirseK]

Great film. Simply great. Nothing ever beats the original, this is coming from a young person too.

[@Jewbag998]

Am I the only one who can't take Lesile Nelson seriously after watching Airplane?

[@raelxx]

I love the part when he says "don't look down" and the next thing we see "up" are panties.

[@bobmalon7244]

Amen ....the remake sucked.

[@justarandomguy1977]

FTW = For The Win. It's a compliment. I didn't care about anybody at first but when the drama and heartache began, I really cared for the characters and dug the film.

[@districtline]

Ahhhhhh, memories.. I think I saw this film 20 times when it was released :D Thanks.

[@jamessummers5946]

such a good movie, but not as good as the Towering Inferno

[@steveaustin5431]

Yeah, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman are great along with many other actors. Loved watching it as a kid.

[@lkw1967]

My favorite movie! Saw it at the drive-in when I was a kid. Used to re-create the capsizing with my cousin's Barbie dream house!lol Also used to have the viewmaster reels. Thanks for the 70's flashback.

[@alrudina]

thank you for remembering us the old version of this movie,i have recently seen the new one,wich is to much better of course.

[@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

@FAWLTYWORZELMELDREW from all of them, i like gene hackman, shelley winters and jack albertson perfomance and wow. i didnt know that willy wonka was him, now i am more happy in life :D

[@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

@kcj1974mem it wasnt a remake. sort of. it was wolfgang's vision of the book, but as it's own movie, it was pretty okay, and the special effects were fantastic.

[@peggypenny1]

NONNIE..ya i still wear orange long sleeve shirt w beige pants...nice to meet u.....greatest film i ever did at 7 and 8 yrs old....now 49...i still know sheila allen(jrwin allens daughter)

[@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

@RobloxTitanicMovie linda!!!! Rogo! let them trough!...... NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!*splash*

[@wirikuta14]

@coffee64girl no esta muerto, tiene 81 y está hoy vivito y coleando.

[@YooTuba]

@Beatpoet7371 you may be right about tsunamis, but the ship used in the original movie, the Queen Mary, reportedly had stability problems and was hit badly twice by rogue waves (not sure of the cause), once during WWII and another time later by a wave that almost turned the ship around. I have read that the author Paul Gallico was on board the ship during the second hit and that's where he got the idea for the book (couldn't confirm this anywhere).

[@kpcher]

@rickram1961... Same here, rickram1961. Except I was 10 yrs. old when I seen the movie back in 1972. Man that's kinda young to see a movie like that, non:) My gosh, there was even smoking in the cinema way back then. Eventually changed it to only the back 10 rows. Then to only up in the balcony. And then it was banned. Anyhoo, like yours it was at a capacity filled theatre in Welland, Ontario Canada; The Park Theatre. . And yes it was a fantastic film. Ciao

[@OKSteve]

The remake could have been a good movie it had good actors in it, but Mrs. Irwin Allen, who produced it, didn't use her husbands #1 rule of a good disaster script - don't kill your main characters off on page 8 (approx 8 minutes into the film); get to know them first then start killing them off on page 25. And as good as the actors were, they don't compare to the Oscar Winners in the original.

[@JWJNC]

He was in the book. LOL He went to the find the bathroom and never came back. But back then in the movies you couldn't kill off a kid. LOL The movie was awesome and I saw it as a kid at the drive in theater. It made such an impact on me. The book was much better, but usually that is the case. The remake was good, but it didn't have the impact that the original had.

[@xtnjohnson]

@Beatpoet7371 "Tidal wave" is a misnomer, yes, but rogue waves (check the Wikipedia entry, to which -- to my annoyance -- youtube won't let link) are real and could produce the same result. Fortunately, they're quite rare, so much so that their occurrence has only recently been confirmed (see link).

[@Frienmugenheight]

@JPnintendofan Yeah man I broke my cardinal rule: Never trust just one source! After further research it's clear how absurd that claim is. Titanic did have a theater though....if you call a projector in the dining room a theater. Thanks for not hating me in my stupidity.

[@Wolta]

For a second at 0:15, that captain looked a lot like will Ferrell :P

[@tomloft2000]

many people would say Airport was the beginning of the "disaster" genre,and though it wasn't terrible it was too corny in places.i consider this movie to be the real start of the "disaster epic".

[@JWJNC]

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.......Haven't you ever heard of "Rogue Wave's"????? That is what hit the ship in both the original and the remake. They are caused by earthquakes under the ocean floor.

[@bloomer1966]

Tidal waves on the open ocean are about 2 inches high travelling at about 500 mph. They don't get large until they are about to reach the shore. Fantastic movie but scientifically inaccurate

[@kaj1806]

perhaps but this is whats called a rogue wave, they explained a bit more about them when they released the second version and you can also look it up on wikipedia

[@webdemarcio]

In some scenes it´s difficult to concentrate on the history. If you´re a male you can´t help but stare to the legs of Susan Shelby (Pamela Sue Martin) :-D.

[@crisrea12345]

@Beatpoet7371 For your info sir, even though your comment is 2 years old, that it wasn't a tsunami that hit the Poseidon it was a rogue wave.

[@SpeedrunInternational]

i never knew there was another movie, kurt russell movie sucked!

[@domirules28]

this movie rules, the bickering between hackman and borgnine about what way to go makes this film even better

[@brendabaloyan]

Leslie Nielsen didn't have a clue that he will be making comedy & making people laugh just 15 years later!

[@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

@RobloxTitanicMovie YEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH.......SPLASH!

[@JoelandtheBots]

There's a reason this movie made more money than the remake, and it wasn't the special effects....

[@superphil92]

Poseidon is the god of the seas. Poseidon was pissed someone called their boat his name....

[@tjrludicke]

the plot is excaping, not 1400 people dieing, you have obviously not seen the movie

[@TJamesBell]

Not a true story. All Hollywood. Definitely the original.

[@goback3spaces]

They're going toward the bow. But they're wrong. THE BOW IS UNDER WATER!!!

[@TrickRidingForrest]

hey now its pretty good if u look at other movies from back in the day

[@coffee64girl]

@wirikuta14 que bien, es un excelente actor

[@cybervisionstar]

perfect casting, acting! but I hate trailers that show too much!!!

[@adelgado75]

I want to watch this movie before I go on my cruise, 12/14/2008.

[@ddraven]

The new version was ok but this one is better.

[@kalsolarUK]

great movie, damn dodgy trailer. lol.

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

1:09 Best scream I’ve ever heard. Better than Vegeta’s.

[@Mikethegr8tTiger4552]

I heard it was the greatest disaster film of all time.

[@TJamesBell]

The original is THE ONE to see. Way better.

[@TJamesBell]

No question. She was a major piece of a**.

[@indiodeoro]

Weird to see Leslie Nielsen in a serious rol.

[@TJamesBell]

What on earth are you referring to?

[@bchbrt]

you cant mess with irwin allen is the best

[@dezboss]

I have such a crush on Pamela Sue Martin.

[@pm41224]

How was this trailer in HD?

[@TJamesBell]

Well said. Also one of my favorites.

[@Flamencanta]

Always remimnds of Chandler being Shelly Winters from the Poseidon Adventure :DD

[@SaoirseK]

Haha! I think many people do

[@pm41224]

When it's an old film?