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Reacting to THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972) | Movie Reaction

[@DawnMarieX]

The next poll (Under the Bed Poll) is now live on Patreon! All tiers can take part in the voting: www.patreon.com/DawnMarieAnderson

[@nittyblahblah8939]

@Dawn MarieX Water at 50° Fahrenheit can cause hyperthermia within the first hour of treading water. That's less than an hour to die from exposure. Also...stay away from plane propellers.

[@dicktrickle741]

Funny that the gal you didn't like was your look-a-like

[@uncoolmartin460]

Some suggestions for future polls ... Deep Rising, Virus, The Abyss, leviathan & Deepstar 6 for ship\sea\underwater. Ice Station Zebra (Ernest Borgnine), Bat 21 (Gene Hackman.), Air America (Mel Gibson) & Flight Of The Phoenix (Jimmy Stewart) Drama. Yes you should do Twister, also Dantes Peak & Volcano (Tommy Lee Jones) Disaster.

[@stupidsmart-phone6911]

Dawn, I think the perfect hoodie you're thinking of is called a snuggie, it's a blanket with a hood and sleeves that covers your whole body like ..... a blanket. Or dress. Wearing one will make you look like a Scooby Doo villain on the way to a secret lair villain's meeting.

[@richardwhite3041]

Okay Dawn. You like Western movies. So, watch the movie "Winchester '73". It's an excellent western!! The actress that played Mrs. Rosen in this is also in in that. She is much younger.

[@Britcarjunkie]

Fun fact: Shelly Winters really was a champion swimmer! Now you need to see "Earthquake", and "Airport".

[@kenpullig1652]

Don't forget The Towering Inferno.

[@TesseRact7228]

Also try "The Flight of the Phoenix"...

[@Dontuween]

20 years earlier, Shelly Winters was in "A Place in the Sun" (1952), where her character was afraid of the water and could not swim! Dawn, I would suggest "Place in the Sun" with Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Cliff as a future movie reaction!

[@swk38]

& lolita

[@MrTjonke]

Or "Capricorne One"

[@tlfreeland7941]

Ernest Borgnine was a very nice guy in real life but he almost always played a tough guy. He would go into a ice cream shop and buy everyone ice cream. Very kind man.

[@Kevonutube303]

He has had many roles. He is a surprising nice guy in The Dirty Dozen

[@Michael-id9bw]

The kind hearted taxi driver in "Escape from New York."

[@jackmessick2869]

If you want to see him at his meanest, then react to "Willard" for Halloween 🐀🐀🐀👻

[@Scary__fun]

He was on a talk show when he was 91 and was asked his secret to living so long. He told the host "I masturbate a lot".

[@markadams3976]

I read his autobiography and he comes across as a decent, down to earth guy. He was brought up to believe no honest job was beneath you and had a great work ethic as a result and treated everyone as equals.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Gene Hackman is also a double Oscar-winning actor,now retired,who will celebrate his 94th birthday this year,Dawn🎩

[@Dontuween]

This movie had 5 Academy Award winners - Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelly Winters, Red Buttons & Jack Albertson. Arthur O'Connell (the doomed priest) was also nominated twice, but did not win.

[@chetstevensq]

Ernest Borgnine also won an Oscar.

[@reservoirdude92]

​@@Dontuweencasting directors in the 70s were the greatest, that's why we got SO many great films from that era.

[@pistonburner6448]

It's a tragedy that he didn't become a geneticist.

[@tofersiefken]

The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), and the Airport franchise including Airport (1970), Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde: Airport '79, were all part of a disaster movie phenomenon that was popular during the '70s. The Airport movies eventually spawned the spoof parody Airplane (1980) as a lampoon.

[@visaman]

Don't forget Earthquake.

[@bradbarter8314]

Just don't include City on Fire (Shelly Winters was in it) which was absolutely ridiculous although it had a good premise. As well as Irwin Allan's Night the Bridge Fell Down with Leslie Nielsen, good premise, badly written and poor special effects. And never watch Poseidon from 2006 bad CGI not one character you care about either. And finally don't watch Beyond the Poseidon Adventure with Michael Caine and Sally Field so bad it has bled into obscurity.

[@helicoptersrkool]

💯 for The Towering Inferno. It's literally the follow up to Poseiden in terms of which disaster movie to watch next. Same production and director. Peak 70's disaster movie.

[@guitarmangordon.9286]

There were a bunch of these movies in the 70's; Towering Inferno is good too. Basically, watch characters die one by one:)

[@LordVolkov]

Towering Inferno? That's weak McQueen... 😉 All jokes aside, Towering Inferno is pretty great. Love a good disaster flick.

[@creech54]

What was the roller coaster one called? I remember it had a sound gimmick in the theaters.

[@lawrencejones1517]

@@creech54 That would be Rollercoaster from 1977.

[@markwilliams6394]

Earthquake is another good disaster movie from the 70's.

[@YolandaAnneBrown95726]

@@markwilliams6394 yes!

[@richardlicht7927]

I started tearing up when you said you hope nothing happens to the older couple.

[@tinicum54]

Ocean water freezes just like freshwater, but at lower temperatures. Fresh water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit but seawater freezes at about 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit , because of the salt in it. When seawater freezes, however, the ice contains very little salt because only the water part freezes.

[@leefischer5814]

"I don't think you should've survived, useless female". Dawn so bloodthirsty and so precious 😂👍

[@raybernal6829]

Savage Dawn M 🔥

[@leefischer5814]

@raybernal6829 Sounds like you found her wrestling name" oh yeah"😁

[@cliffchristie5865]

According to Gene Hackman, when a sequel was proposed, they approached him with this idea. The second one begins where the first on ended. As the survivors are helped from the wreck, Hackman appears as a new character and asks - " did my twin brother survive?" ( He took a pass ).

[@pvanukoff]

That sounds completely brain-dead 🤣

[@creech54]

I recall that. I would be surprised if he didn't laugh in their faces.

[@keithdean9149]

There was a sequel though. "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure." I think Telly Savalas was in it.

[@thierryardillerVFX]

Yes, with Savalas and Michael Caine, but a very cheap sequel taking place just after the rescue.

[@pistonburner6448]

The real genius move would've been to have a subsequent third film where he again appears as a previously unknown third identical brother who only just found out about it and asks: "Oh no! Did my previously unknown triplet, the one who didn't die previously die now in this accident?"

[@michaelwalsh1035]

Check out Ernest Borgnine, your grandad lookalike, in the movie Marty, he won Oscar for best actor.

[@Mike-rw2nh]

He was also in Beast Mode in ‘The Vikings’ (1958).

[@duncansolloway2497]

cabby from ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is my personal fav

[@kylereese4822]

@@duncansolloway2497 Santini Airwolf... :)

[@duanevp]

I am glad he was able to leave us the performances he did, but I was always a bit sad he never got another truly solid leading dramatic part like Marty.to remind everybody that his Oscar wasn't a fluke.

[@heathjustiss4549]

Marty is a lovely movie.

[@foglight11]

When VCRs were first invented and becoming a thing in the home, this was the first movie my dad rented for us to watch. I was so excited and have loved it ever since.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Before then, it was a Late Show staple!

[@rollmops7948]

One of the last movie with Ernest Borgnine (the cop) , is the funny action movie "Red" (2010) with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox (the Scottish actor) , John Malkovich, Marie Louise Parker, Karl Urban (Star Trek, Lord of the Rings), Richard Dreyfus (Jaws)

[@chrissmalley83]

RED and RED 2 are annual watches for my family each Christmas. RED is less of a Christmas movie than Die Hard, but he does decorate his house just before the wet team shows up.

[@melenatorr]

Ernest Borgnine shows a completely other side of his talent in "Marty", highly recommended.

[@jeg1353]

Ernest Borgnine was great as Mermaid Man on Spongebob Squarepants.

[@allenruss2976]

I enjoy the fact you are about the only reactor that does movies from our childhood. People can see we had very good movies back then. The genius of Irwin Allen has been lost in the maze of time

[@MichaelBLynch]

Irwin Allen produced a lot of TV shows -- Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Land of the Giants, to name a few.

[@allenruss2976]

@@MichaelBLynch I love Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel. They're still part of MeTv's late Saturday night lineup with Kolchak and Svengoolie

[@OceanKingNY]

Irwin Allen gave John Williams his start by having him write the opening theme music for all of his TV shows. When Allen later produced the movie "The Poseidon Adventure," he had John Williams write the music, which helped to kick-start Williams' legendary movie career.

[@waterbeauty85]

Mad Magazine did parody of this called "The Poop Side Down Adventure," and in one scene the cynical young priest tells the old priest "When I was a boy, my family had to burn furniture!" and the old priest asks "For warmth?" and the young priest answers "No. For laughs. We were poor, but we had a great sense of humor!"

[@raybernal6829]

Mad Magazine the best parodies .... This was how I got my sense of humor reading these when I was 12 years old

[@markharris1125]

@@raybernal6829 Oh, me too. Their parody of Airport 77, where the plane sinks to the ocean floor, always sticks in my mind. One character asks the millionaire (played in the film by Jimmy Stewart, and I paraphrase, it's been years), "How did you get so rich? By collecting art or antiques?" and he replies, "No I got rich by collecting money!"

[@michaelschramm1064]

I had that issue and to this day I still recall that funny exchange. I saw the film on initial release age 13 and that same year read Paul Gallico’s novel.

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

One of the best lines in that one is in the tree-climbing scene. Mike tells Linda she can't take her clothes off in front of everyone, and three men say in unison, "You should've thought of that before!"

[@michaelschramm1064]

@@Oppeldeldoc1 I recall that line too! Search for “Poopsidedown Adventure” here and you can see the entire Mad Magazine satire.

[@johnbarleycorn_]

The waiter who first appears in the bagpipes scene is Roddy McDowall who, amongst other things, played Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes movies. Gene Hackman also appeared as the blind man in Young Frankenstein. As for Leslie Nielsen, I'd highly recommend Forbidden Planet.

[@ianstopher9111]

Has DM not seen FP? How has that not won a patreon poll?

[@LordNelsonkm]

@@ianstopher9111 Forbidden Planet is required viewing to get your Sci Fi badge. First time Robby the Robot made an appearance.

[@asian-americanwithanopinio8954]

He's in "Planet of The Apes" the movies.

[@ianstopher9111]

@@asian-americanwithanopinio8954 I will have to rewatch to spot Robby the Robot 😉

[@rollmops7948]

The best movie with Gene Hackman is "French Connection" 1 and 2 as a cop chasing after a drug lord (the n°1 in New York) and (the n°2 is in France at Marseille) he won an Oscar for it (Best Actor) ps: he is now 94 years old

[@rileymorton128]

"Bless your little cotton socks." You just have to love Dawn Marie.♥

[@artieeffham355]

Saw this when it came out. So long ago that the theater had just one screen. And no screens in the audience!

[@Brad-ic4bp]

I’m sure someone already mentioned that Shelly Winters did her own “stunts” in the swimming underwater scene.

[@phila3884]

Did not know that. Almost like Tom Cruise then.

[@jackmessick2869]

The swimming obese lady was Shelley Winters, and she won the Academy Award for her performance here. There was a spate of disaster films in in early to mid-1970s. Airport, Airport '75 (the plot for this one is outrageous), Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, and Skyjacked. The Towering Inferno was the best acted of this bunch. The birth of the disaster epic was The High and the Mighty from 1954. Then there was another round in the mid-1990s: Dante's Peak, Twister, The Perfect Storm, and Titanic. All worth a reaction.

[@GregDaniel78]

And the very underappreciated Daylight. A fantastic homage to the disaster genre.

[@MoeRon-ry2zr]

Winters WON two previous Academy Awards and WAS nominated for this, but she did not win.

[@AT-st5dr]

She was nominated for this film but did not win. She won 2 Academy awards for other performances.

[@thomastimlin1724]

Dawn mentioned she liked the music. That's because John Williams composed and conducted the score for the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure. The score was nominated for an Oscar, and Williams' work is considered his first big original score. He went on to great things, mostly for Stephen Spielberg, like Jaws, Star Wars, (Indian Jones) Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET, Schindler's List, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jurassic Park, etc etc. The year previous though he had down The Cowboys.

[@sharonellis8776]

This movie is a classic. It always makes me cry when Mrs Rosen passes away. xx

[@philmullineaux5405]

The captain was a serious actor in 50s 60s, then he did Airplane, Naked Gun, and other comedies!

[@RetroRobotRadio]

Nielsen was a serious actor until Airplane. In fact he acted totally deadpan serious in Airplane. That's why they hired him.

[@LordNelsonkm]

Dawn really needs to see Forbidden Planet. Excellent Serious Nielsen.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

@@LordNelsonkm I think Forbidden Planet and Poseidon Adventurer are all I've ever seen him in before Airplane. I know there are more. Anything good?

[@Shan_Dalamani]

@@RetroRobotRadio There's some sort of police show (it's satire). I don't remember the name, but it was hilarious. I'm not sure some of the jokes would be acceptable by today's standards, though. Fun fact: Leslie Nielsen's brother, Erik, was a Member of Parliament in Canada. At one time he was Deputy Prime Minister. Now _he_ was someone devoid of a sense of humor. Or at least he never let it show in front of a TV camera.

[@LordNelsonkm]

@@RetroRobotRadio Police Squad! is the cop show. It is hilarious if short lived with only six episodes. Leslie also did the Naked Gun movies which came out of Police Squad. He's got a ton of stuff on imdb, but Forbidden Planet, Airplane, Police Squad, and Naked Gun are the biggies. Dawn has all the Naked Gun movies in her library. There's also "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" from Mel Brooks.

[@jacquiecrandall6058]

Yes on twister, check out the original flight of the Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart

[@trhansen3244]

Outstanding movie doesn't get near enough credit.

[@TesseRact7228]

She should then also recognise Ernest Borgnine in that one...

[@duanevp]

One of my all-time favorites - and another good performance from Borgnine. The remake was not bad - but I like the original better.

[@beebtv]

Greatest quote ever, "the ship farted."

[@glennlesliedance]

Gene Hackman - Bonnie and Clyde Ernest Borgnine - Marty Roddy McDowall - Cleopatra Jack Albertson - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun

[@glennwisniewski9536]

and more: Pamela Sue Martin - the original Fallon on TV's Dynasty Red Buttons - Sayonara (won the Oscar for this) Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder Stella Stevens - The Ballad of Cable Hogue; probably the finest actress to have been a Playboy Playmate of the Month (Jan. 1960) Jack Albertson - also TV's Chico and the Man w/ the ill-fated Freddie Prinze Ernest Borgnine - also From Here to Eternity; TV's McHale's Navy along with Bob Hastings (who played the Poseidon M.C.) Shelley Winters - also Night of the Hunter; The Diary of Anne Frank

[@Shan_Dalamani]

@@glennwisniewski9536 Before she was Fallon, Pamela Sue Martin was Nancy Drew, in the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew mysteries. Nancy Drew was canceled after the first season and the Hardy Boys continued.

[@jeffleighton4385]

Roddy McDowell. Cornelius from Planet of the Apes.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Leslie Nielsen's "relaunch" as a comedy actor is still over a decade away,Dawn🎩

[@keithdean9149]

"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

[@jollyrodgers7272]

'72 - '80 is 8 years.

[@brians48now]

"I wonder how much toilet paper it takes to soak up all the water in the ocean." Dawn Marie

[@richelliott9320]

A lot

[@enigmamz]

More than there is.

[@Kevonutube303]

Considerably faster and with 3 ply.... But you do pay for a premium

[@ianstopher9111]

It is why you should hoard TP like gold.

[@Shan_Dalamani]

In the tie-in novel, a couple of characters discover how disgusting it is to try to use an upside-down bathroom.

[@TheCkent100]

Jack Albertson, who played Manny Rosen, the old man whose wife died of a heart attack after swimming, was the same man that played the post office worker that had the idea of sending the "dead letter office" Santa letters on to the courthouse in "Miracle on 34th Street".

[@pvanukoff]

He's always Grandpa Joe to me.

[@LymanPhillips]

Yep, Grandpa Joe in Chsrlie and the Chocolate Factory

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

For a lot of people, he's the Man, from Chico and the Man.

[@ThinkerT]

​@@LymanPhillipsWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[@bodan1196]

Water is a a much better heat conductor than air. That is, water drains your body heat much faster than air does. This is why you can sit in a sauna at 90 degrees (celsius) for a while, but sitting in 90 degrees water would be bad. It's the same on the other side on the scale; ocean water can be 4 degrees, which will drain your body heat in minutes, while you can stay outside for an hour or so without much problems.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Dawn Marie: "I don't understand screaming for that kind of situation." Irwin Allen: "Haha, oh, I dooooo ..."

[@edgarcia4794]

Also Mr. Akers the guy in the yellow coat at the top of the christmas tree / ladder was Roddy McDowell who played Corneleous the chimp archeologist in the 1960's on Planet of the apes movie which you reviewed.

[@mmattson8947]

There are a bunch of entertaining Roddy McDowell movies, beyond the Ape movies. I'd recommend "The Legend of Hell House", which came out a year after "The Poseidon Adventure"

[@HuntingViolets]

@@mmattson8947 Also _Fright Night._ And he was in _Arnold_ with Stella Stevens. She should also check out the third Apes movie, _Escape from the Planet of the Apes._

[@Shan_Dalamani]

@@mmattson8947 For a really young Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor, try *Lassie Come Home* - it's a classic about a dog who goes through a long journey to get home to the boy she loves. McDowall was in a few science fiction TV shows as well, including Logan's Run and The Fantastic Journey.

[@cliffchristie5865]

Rogo: "...do you know how thick one inch of steel is?" Scott: "It's one inch less than two inches". I had the experience of working as an extra on the remake in 2005. And it's no secret that the '72 version is considered far better. Even so it was a kick. The scene was the only one with a few hundred people - the ballroom on New Year's Eve. First right side up, then upside down. So, spoiler alert, we all perish when the ballroom floods. Well, that's show biz.

[@rogerlong9783]

Paul Gallico, who wrote the book The Poseidon Adventure, got the idea when he was on the Queen Mary when she was a troopship in WWII. The Queen Mary (The SS Poseidon is modeled after her.) got hit by a big wave during a storm. She rolled and took a very long time to right herself. Paul thought that the liner would roll over. That experience stuck with him and over twenty years later, Paul Gallico wrote a novel about a luxury liner capsizing.

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

" Noone does a party like we used to." My dear, that's because all the REALLY fun stuff is illegal now.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

What?

[@DylansPen]

Twister yes, and I'd recommend The Andromeda Strain 1971 for sure. Also for more Earnest Borgnine, Emperor of the North Pole. The temp of the water where the Titanic sank was about 29 degrees Fahrenheit, 3 degrees below the freezing temperature of water. A human would last about 15 minutes in that water.

[@johanlaurasia]

it's funny you mention Leslie Neilson in a serious roll... he was a serious actor (as is Peter graves), and that was what was funny about airplane! the movie as it had serious actors in comedic roles. That changed the course of Neilson's career, and he's done comedy since.

[@toodlescae]

Don't firget Robert Stack.

[@gregsager2062]

@@toodlescae And Lloyd Bridges.

[@jimshaw9449]

I saw this as a kid in the theater, big screen big sound very impacting at the time, and fun to watch how well it's aged, loved the reaction, as usual, thank you for sharing your time with us.

[@meheuck]

Everyone's seen the holiday meme for DIE HARD that says, "It's not Xmas until Hans Gruber falls from Nakatomi Plaza," I always counter with, "It's not New Year's until Belle Rosen goes swimming." Glad you discovered this influential 70s disaster fave. I highly recommend two 1974 action thrillers in a similar vein of all star casts and suspense. JUGGERNAUT has Richard Harris and young Anthony Hopkins trying to defuse a series of bombs on a cruise ship. And the original THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE has Robert Shaw and Walter Matthau facing off as, respectively, a terrorist who hijacks a NYC subway train and the transit supervisor who must negotiate with him over the radio.

[@jonnno2439]

Right from 1972,watching in the cinema, in the scene where Gene was hanging on the red valve wheel, and raging at whoever he was raging at, That always sticks in my mind.

[@Yiddo_033-yd7vr]

"If he keep tries make her fingers off, he just makes her fall...'accidently' and then you guys can go up..." 😂 Marie is ruthless! Another survival movie from the same great movie era is Airport '77!

[@ToneHobart]

When I was in Jr High, I had to take an AV class, my teacher found out I loved this movie, we used to sneak off to the studio and watch it on Reel to reel video tape. It was one of my few pleasant memories of school.

[@terryv2006]

Couldn’t watch this fast enough. I was 11 when this came out and my mom took me to the theatre. Been a fav ever since. I felt so grown up watching this.

[@Jacks-Revenge]

Yes on Twister

[@mikebrown7799]

Hello Dawn Marie!😊 You should check out a younger Leslie Nielsen in the sci-fi film "Forbidden Planet" (1956). That film was definitely ahead of its time. Director Irwin Allen was very big in sci-fi in TV in the 60s, then films in the 70s. In the 60's he made TV shows such as "Lost in Space", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Land of the Giants", and "The Time Tunnel". In the 70s he made disaster films like "The Towering Inferno". This movie still holds up well after 50 years thanks to the direction and the all star cast!!!!🏆 Great reactions to this classic disaster film, Dawn Marie!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏

[@r.e.tucker3223]

"Bless your little cotton socks!" My wife and I will be keeping that one!

[@tommarks3726]

The acting and passion/sorrow Mr. Rosen felt when he saw Mrs. Rosen dead was incredible. You really felt his pain in losing the love of your life. Great movie. Saw it as a kid of 6 yrs. old with the family on movie night. lol . Reaction was graattee as the say in Scottish. lol

[@duanevp]

Water doesn't have to be literally freezing to kill you VERY quickly. The heat drains out of your body and just shuts down. But for people jumping off a ship into near-freezing or sub-freezing water it's a significant shock. Your natural reaction is to gasp - to suck in air, which could mean sucking in water instead. And then you're immersed in water so cold it feels like being stabbed... until the hypothermia sets in a few minutes later.

[@Gravydog316]

my auntie owns the house Leslie Nielsen lived in until he was like 4 years old, in Regina, Saskatchewan

[@kaykutcher2103]

Fingers crossed her name's Shirley.

[@totallytomanimation]

This movie really kick started a disaster movie craze. "Airport" was the first large ensemble actor disaster flick - but Poseidon brought scale to the genre and redefined it in doing so.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

I remember the Towering Inferno and Earthquake. What are some other ones?

[@newodkin]

Ernest Borgnine (from The Wild Bunch) and Bob Hastings have no scenes together in this (Hastings is the emcee counting down to midnight) but they played together on McHale's Navy from 1962-1965. Both are featured prominently in the new book on that TV show that just came out this week. It's called SET SAIL WITH McHALE.

[@sreif78]

My mom and I made my sister watch this before a cruise in 1993. Great film. Great effects for the time. Great writing and great acting. just a banger that managed to find it's way into the Seinfeld Puerto Rico Day parade episode.

[@vermithax]

"The ship farted." Best reaction ever. There were SO many good lines, AND tears, and all with a lovely Scottish accent. Seriously, that was a lot of fun!

[@THOMMGB]

Hi Dawn Marie, For seasickness, it's best to be in the middle of the ship as the ends have more movement. Also, and this is huge, stare at the horizon. It gives your brain a stable reference point to focus on. I have held the record for throwing up with all my friends so I have some practical experience with this. This movie was HUGE when it came out. Everyone was trying to guess who would die next.....

[@RetroRobotRadio]

Did you know this film ended up inspiring the Disney sci-fi film The Black Hole. The original script for the Black Hole toys centered in people trapped in a space station during a meteorite shower having to make their way to safety, just like on the Poseidon. The Black Hole was re-written so many times it was a completely different film by the end... but it still had two of the same actors as Poseidon Adventure.

[@Mike-rw2nh]

Editing chops to die for. No Only Fans nonsense. Funny interjections. Impeccable taste in film choices. Truly the Rolls Royce of reaction channels.

[@rubroken]

in these edited movie reactions, keeping the flow of the movie going is very important, and I agree that Dawn is one of the best

[@Mike-rw2nh]

@@rubrokenHear! Hear! So true.

[@rkw2917]

I subscribed to Dawn within minutes of watching her reactions Exactly to my taste Hope she will continue ❤

[@visaman]

What was that about Onlyfans? 😮

[@HonRevPTB]

I couldn't possibly agree more, Dawn is the absolute best!!!!!!!

[@ElliotNesterman]

FWIW, it's not always aliens. For an entirely different, and very moving, performance by Ernest Borgnine check out the drama/romance _Marty_ (1955). _Marty_ was nominated for eight Oscars and won four: Best Picture; Best Actor - Borgnine; Best Director; and Best Screenplay. Gene Hackman's first Oscar was for the 1971 action/crime/drama _The French Connection,_ which is based on an actual police case in New York. Leslie Nielsen's first real comic role was in _Airplane!_ Before that he'd always been cast in serious roles. For a very much younger Leslie Nielsen in a leading, romantic role, check out the 1956 science fiction film _Forbidden Planet._ Shelley Winters won two Best Supporting Actress Oscars. I think you'd really enjoy her performance in the 1966 comedy/drama _Alfie,_ which stars a very young Michael Caine.

[@LymanPhillips]

Nice summary of the actors. Totally agree on Marty. Watch it!

[@jasonwebb71]

I've just discover that the age that Shelley Winters was when this film was made is the age I am now. I comfort myself by assuming that she was playing somebody older than her actual age.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Leslie Nielsen has always been a dramatic actor. Airplane was his first comedy.

[@3dbadboy1]

The same person Irwin Allen made The Towering Inferno a few years later because of the HUGE success of this. I recommend reacting to that movie as well. I believe the captain's plan was to get the ship sideswiped because he believed the wave hadn't crested. However because it hit some shallows, the wave crested and he had to quickly turn the ship into the wave to pierce the whitewater but he didn't have enough time. The ship was top heavy to begin with anyway.

[@craigpeter4794]

Fun Fact. The Poseidon Adventure is based Loosely on a true event. In 1942, the legendary Oceanliner RMS Queen Mary was being used as a troop ship carrying soldiers from the USA to the Uk. The ship was sailing through rough weather when she was hit side on by a rogue wave and rolled over just marginally avoiding the point of no return. Queen Mary righted herself and sailed on with many injured in the incident. The Queen Mary is also used as the Poseidon in parts of the movie i believe.

[@uberduberdave]

Ernest Borgnine was in one of my favorite flicks, "Bad Day at Blackrock..."

[@quailman]

One of my mom’s favorite movies we watch together every few years

[@jeffb.3174]

my moms as well. Only time mom would stop being a mom was when this movie would show up on t.v.

[@jmichaelbell5434]

I was a 12 year old boy when this came out, and absolutely loved this film. My mum, bless her soul, indulged me by taking me to the drive-in Friday and Saturday nights, two weeks running, just so I could make a tape recording of the movie so I could listen to it once it left the cinemas. It was to be a decade or more before home video was a thing. Thank you for triggering this glorious memory of a lady who I fail to remember as much as I should.

[@neillenet291]

dawn keeps her streak alive of mentioning "pooping her pants," LOL

[@ejtappan1802]

This movie has such an all-star cast. Everyone but the three youngest had a long list of credits to their names. Another great old movie is Airport. It was the original disaster movie that kicked off all the rest throughout the 1970s.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Pamela Sue Martin did lots of TV.

[@user-jb8qq9fk6m]

If you want a good Gene Hackman (the preacher / Lex Luther) film try "The French Connection" 1971 directed by William Friedkin, director of "The Exorcist", for which TFC Friedkin won an Academy Award. Ernest Borgnine (Wild Bunch) won an Academy Award for "Marty" 1955 and had a six decades long career including playing a bad guy in "From Here to Eternity" in 1953 with Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Burt Lancaster. Leslie Nielsen, the ship's captain, started out as a dramatic actor and he portrayed the American Revolutionary War hero Colonel Francis Marion in the 1950s Disney TV movies of "The Swamp Fox", upon whom Mel Gibson's character is based in "The Patriot".

[@lawrencejones1517]

The origin of ensemble cast disaster movies is called The High and the Mighty from 1954 starring John Wayne. The first of the 70s disaster movies is called Airport from 1970. Both are really good.

[@gswithen]

I'm glad you noticed the great score by John Williams. This was one of his first major theatrical films in an amazing career.

[@JK-wc5oq]

The film is inspired by the rouge wave that almost sank the RMS Queen Mary in 1942 when she was being used as a troop ship and was carrying over 10,000 troops at the time.

[@ednafenton7558]

Shelley Winters wanted to star in this movie really bad. She gained a lot of weight to get the part. Afterward, she couldn't lose it. Shelley is an amazing actress. It breaks my heart when she dies in this movie! I loved all the disaster movies of the 70s. So many great movie stars were in them.

[@RDRussell2]

The "disaster movie" was a huge box office trend of the early 1970s. This movie ("Poseidon Adventure") is one of the best, but for me, "The Towering Inferno" is even better. Paul Newman, Steve McQueen...it's so good even the "serious" acting of OJ Simpson can't ruin it.

[@tenjed4224]

This movie has some of the greatest. Stella Stevens and Shelley Winters really showed they are two of the best, ever. The Nutty Professor (with Jerry Lewis) and The Night Of The Hunter are two films you need to check out, soon.

[@cathyvickers9063]

This & The Towering Inferno are the Irwin Allen disaster masterpieces.

[@rp8pi]

i just realized that actor that plays Manny is the same guy that plays Grandpa Joe in willy wonka and the chocolate factory

[@visaman]

And, The Man, in Chico And The Man.

[@ianlove1215]

This film is based on a book by Paul Brickhill. After they did this film, Paul wrote a sequel, Beyond The Poseidon Adventure, in which he wrote a little note more or less saying that the book was going on from where the film finished & was not a sequel to his original book. They then made a film of the second book & changed it!!!

[@ArthurChappell]

Actually Paul Gallico - the first film changed a lot too - the scene where they argued with the survivors going the other way had a follow up in the book - the others all got out safely, unscathed - in the film, they die

[@catcherinthesky4106]

Saw this on tv when i was 8 years old (1985) and haven't felt comfortable on water since. Great movie!

[@jimtatro6550]

This is one of my favorites from my childhood, great movie with an excellent cast.👍

[@augustcanyon3438]

You're fans will make you an old soul and you'll never be subject to the stupidity of the movies and people that are out there; you'll know a better life because of these older films.

[@paulytheking7365]

I LOVE John William's music for this film.

[@jeffdetmer4681]

There was an old Disney TV serial called The Swamp Fox, which was about a man named Francis Marion who was an officer in the American army during the revolutionary war vs the British. he lead his men by using tactics that had them fighting in the farmlands and woods and swamps. There are som episodes of it on KZbin. A very young Leslie Nielsen starred as The Swamp Fox. You should try watching that. Also Gene Hackman (Lex) was in some really good movies. A few to watch are Hoosiers, The French Connection, and Forgiven (with Clint Eastwood).

[@creech54]

The boy was played by Eric Shea. His brother Chris was the voice of Linus in the 1960s "Peanuts" TV specials.

[@benjauron5873]

I watched and wrote a report on this movie for a project for my group communications class when I was in college. Good movie. I enjoyed it.

[@gkiferonhs]

This was one of the "disaster movies" that were real popular in the early 70's of which Airplane! was a parody.

[@Flamebeard0815]

Which begs the question: Why was there never a 'Cruiseship!' comedy flick?

[@ricksgamemisc10]

The level of offense in your voice "Hey! There's nothing wrong with bagpipes!" 😂

[@THOMMGB]

Dawn, Fresh water freezes at 32 F/ 0 C. Salt water freezes at a lower temperature like -2 C? Ernest Borgnine had a huge career. He did a TV show called, McHale's Navy, a WWII comedy. You should check it out. It's still pretty funny. In the cast, there were five Academy Award winners in this movie: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. Thanks for all you do, Dawn. You're the very best!

[@neilredacted6853]

Maybe it’s because I’ve known this movie since before I can remember, but I never thought of it as a tearjerker. But that’s part of your charm.

[@James_Loveless]

Bagpipes The ONLY musical instrument considered a Weapon of WAR

[@davidterhune8277]

Leslie Nielsen had an entire career as a dramatic actor only. What made "Airplane!" funny (at least for some of us) was seeing dramatic actors like Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, etc. play their roles with straight faces. Many viewers agree with this and that's how Leslie Neilsen's second life as a comedic actor began. This was a movie from my childhood BTW, thanks for sharing your reaction. Also I really appreciate you doing "Police Squad!" Who else is as cool as you?

[@andreaslindblom9140]

Footnote: Harrison Okene was stuck in a sunken ship in 2013 for two days and was saved! ✌

[@DaleKingProfile]

One of the earliest movies I remember seeing in the movie theater when I would have been 7 years old

[@FrankCraven-jk3sv]

"Honestly I don't know how I survive sometimes, because I'm so bloody stupid." - Best Quote Ever. "The ship farted" - Next Best

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

13:10 Fun fact, the hull around the waterline at the bow of Iowa class battleships is slightly less than half an inch thick. It's plenty to keep that water out.

[@socalpaul487]

"The Poseidon Adventure" was the second in a series of disaster movies with all-star casts. "Airport" (and sequels), "Earthquake", "The Towering Inferno".

[@exoterric]

2 reasons: Salt in water changes it's chemistry so it can get a bit colder before freezing, and also the motion of the water is imparting so much kinetic energy water can reach a "super-cool" state. 3 minutes of cold water, your body/metabolism goes into overdrive to keep your core temp up, but as your body fails to crank out enough energy to counter the cold, hypothermia always wins. Even English Channel swimmers still have a limit.

[@johnchrysostomon6284]

Leslie Nielson before he did comedy The theme song "There has to be a Morning After" was quickly redone by Maureen McGovern and released as a single, and became a hit record

[@thomastimlin1724]

Forgot to mention I remember Mad Magazine had a parody on this film back then called "The Poop-side-down Adventure."

[@MuncleJim]

I saw this movie when I saw 10 years old at a Drive in Movie Theater 😂 Yes, back in the olden days you could drive your car into a big parking lot, hang a speaker on your car door window and watch a movie. lol It was great for date night …. 😢 I miss the olden days LOL

[@nbunnysnowboard]

Most of the passengers on the Titanic who were in the water died within 15 minutes from hypothermia. The water was -2 degrees Celsius so there was pack ice on top of the water but there is so much water in the ocean that it doesn’t fully freeze. Hope this helps!