![]() That’s if they can stay ahead of the seawater pouring into the crippled ship. Their goal is the engine room and their only slim chance of being rescued. The film follows ten passengers from varied backgrounds haphazardly, making their way through this upside-down hell. On New Year’s Eve, the ship is hit by a massive wave and turns upside down. Poseidon, is making its final voyage before heading to a scrap yard in Greece. In case you have a phobia of watching films with water, here’s a blueprint of the 1972 disaster flick.Īn aging luxury liner, The S.S. So begins a harrowing race to the bottom that is now the top - What a disaster! -And movie fans couldn’t get enough.Ģ022 marks the 50th anniversary of “The Poseidon Adventure” sailing into theaters. ![]() And those desperate measures include Winter’s ample fanny. It is estimated that over 3,500,000 gallons of water was poured into it.Gene Hackman is midway up a towering metal Christmas tree with his hands pressed firmly on Shelley Winters’ derriere.ĭesperate times call for desperate measures. ![]() Incidentally, in this connection, it might be noted that The Poseidon Adventure is quite possibly the "wettest" production ever. Some of this came from stunt people demonstrating to the actors how they should handle hazards and then acting as "backup men" to see that nothing went wrong.The main employment came in such sequences as the one in which 120 persons who had failed to heed Hackman's plea to follow him to safety, are inundated and drowned in thousands of gallons of water. While stunt men had little to do in "doubling" the stars, there were more of these men and women used in The Poseidon Adventure than in any film in recent years, according to Paul Stader, stunt coordinator. Most of the scenes are shot using the actual actors It ultimately was rigged to hold water four feet deep for the sequence in which the sea bursts in to drown the multitude. Since it was used in both right-side-up and upside-down sequences, it was designed for speedy conversion: the ceiling being carpeted on its reverse side while the floor had the celling decor on its opposite end. So devised was this set that in sections, it could be tilted up to 30 degrees for the beginning of the roll-over sequence. This was not prudishness on the part of producer Allen, but the desire not to distract from important scenes played in front of the figure. The original is equipped with standard genitalia while a design preserves the modesty of the replica. It was an exact duplicate of its prototype on the Queen Mary in everything but a few details of decor, one of which was a replica of a famous antique statue of the god, Poseidon, except for a slight alteration. This set was an extremely ingenious piece of work. Giant tanks of water (called dump tanks) are used to pour real water quickly causing waves and flooding on the set which was specially constructed to hold water until it was necessary to remove it. Quite simply, this was entirely practical. That take had only one of the dump tanks trigger producing an under sized wave so a third and ultimately successful take 3 was called for. The miniature was hurriedly repaired ready for the next take where the dump tanks were only half filled. The first take had the two towers dumping a full 1200 gallons each which resulted in a massive wave that instantly engulfed the ship obscuring it completely. The capsizing wave was generated by two dump tanks placed in the far right back corner of the tank. ![]() The cost of the miniature to build in 1972 was $35,000 and it ended up weighing around 3 tons. Another bonus to the smaller scale was that the miniature could also fit in the 32 foot by 14 foot deep (9.75m x 4.2m) Green tank for the underwater shots so only one miniature would be needed. Abbott reasoned he should be able to employ this technique, shooting at seven times normal speed or around 168 frames per second and achieve the desired shots. After having experience shooting the Tora Tora Tora miniatures at fairly high frame rates L.B. For the rogue wave, a scale model was used.Īt 1/48 scale the miniature, supervised by Gaile Brown, was 21 feet 6 inches (6.5 m) which was considered a little small at the time, the general rule being that miniature ships should be at least 3/4 inch to the foot or 1/16 scale.
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