This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of memorable character actors portraying hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.
A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.
The main star plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.
A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.
Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's epic stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a brave technician (the actor) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the famous French liner Île de France.
Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.
Sam Neill play a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.
An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.
The director provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.
This adaptation of this writer's literary work is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his group through the upturned hull to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of sports participation.
The lead actor gives a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a man battling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.
The main star provides excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.
{Freak weather conditions|
A passionate traveler and writer sharing insights from global journeys and practical lifestyle advice.