The Poseidon Adventure (1972) is an iconic American disaster-drama-survival thriller film. The film is about a group of passengers aboard an aged luxury ocean liner ship named SS Poseidon from New ...

There are disaster films, and then there’s "The Poseidon Adventure." Released 50 years ago, the saga of survival aboard a doomed luxury liner effectively turned the genre upside down. "Poseidon," 20th ...

“The Poseidon Adventure” wouldn’t have been much of a disaster movie (or my most cherished film at age 11) if the ocean liner could handle a 90-foot tidal wave. Decades later the 1972 smash has become ...

A genre surpassed by its parodies, the star-studded, special-effectsy, formulaic wrecktaculars known as 1970s "disaster movies" are appreciated today primarily as camp. Stage a film festival of such ...

LOS ANGELES — Ronald Neame (neem), who produced and co-wrote acclaimed British films like "Great Expectations," saw Hollywood success as director of "The Poseidon Adventure" and was nominated for ...

Disaster movies are timeless. It doesn’t matter if you’re escaping the Titanic in 1953 or 1997; the prospect is always terrifying. That makes the genre ideal to revisit decades later, and generations ...

LOS ANGELES — Carol Lynley, a stage and screen actress who starred in the “The Poseidon Adventure” and appeared in numerous other film and television series, has died. She was 77. Lynley’s daughter ...

Ernie Orsatti, the hunky actor who appeared in some of Hollywood’s biggest movies before embarking on a prodigious career as a stuntman, has died at the age of 80. Orsatti died Sept. 12 from a ...

Actress Carol Lynley, best known for her role in the 1972 film “The Poseidon Adventure,” died at her Pacific Palisades home Tuesday after suffering a heart attack, according to her friend, actor Trent ...

Stella Stevens, who starred with Elvis Presley in “Girls! Girls! Girls!” and with Jerry Lewis in “The Nutty Professor” as well as in disaster film “The Poseidon Adventure,” died Friday in Los Angeles.

Actress Stella Stevens, who appeared in a string of movies in the 1960s and '70s including "The Nutty Professor" and "The Poseidon Adventure," died Saturday from Alzheimer's disease at 84, said her ...