Synopsis
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
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Cast
- Michael CaineCaptain Mike Turner
- Sally FieldCeleste Whitman
- Telly SavalasCaptain Stefan Svevo
- Peter BoyleFrank Mazzetti
- Jack WardenHarold Meredith
- Shirley KnightHannah Meredith
- Shirley JonesNurse Gina Rowe
- Karl MaldenWilbur Hubbard
- Slim PickensTex
- Veronica HamelSuzanne Constantine
Recommendations
- 30
Time Out
It provides the thinnest of excuses for rerunning the 'dramas' of the night before, but it doesn't do anything to salvage the venerable formula. - 30
Variety
A virtual remake of the 1972 original, without that film's mounting suspense and excitement. - 30
The New York Times
Mr. Allen, who directed Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and produced it too, is so obviously ill-equipped to stage action scenes in cramped quarters that his audience winds up wishing as fervently as his characters for a chance to see the light of day. - 30
Newsweek
It is perhaps not presumptuous to take the blind man as the director's image of his ideal viewer, but here, I think, Allen becomes overly cautious. Had the man been blind and deaf, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure would have achieved the stature of a true masterpiece. [11 Jun 1979, p.99] - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
What did we really, sincerely, expect anyway, from a movie in which Karl Malden plays a character named 'Wilbur,' and Slim Pickens plays a character named 'Tex'? - 25
TV Guide Magazine
The whole thing is soggy cardboard.
