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The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure

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The Poseidon Adventure – Irwin Allen’s first great disaster movie, about an ocean liner that’s flipped upside down – and survivors struggle to escape.

The Poseidon Adventure
Crack in the World (1965) starring Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore

Crack in the World

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Crack in the World (1965) starring Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore

Crack in the World – Attempting to provide endless energy to the world, a dying scientist fires a missile into the Earth’s center. And he nearly blows the planet apart …

Crack in the World
The Swarm (1978) by Irwin Allen, starring Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray

The Swarm

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The Swarm (1978) by Irwin Allen, starring Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Olivia  de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray

Irwin Allen did quite a few disaster movies (The Poseidon Adventure, Airport) that were commercial, if not always critical, successes. The Swarm, in contrast, was a flop both commercially and critically — and a massive waste of some very good acting talent as well.

The Swarm

Starflight One

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Starflight One (1983) starring Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton,  Ray Milland

The celebrity-laden Starflight One, aka. Starflight: the Plane that Couldn’t Land, was the last of the disaster movies.  Only with a bit of science fiction thrown in. The basic story has the first hypersonic transport being prepared for a media-covered inaugural flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, a planned two-hour flight. The passengers and crew, as is normal for these types of movies, bring their own baggage, and we’re not talking luggage:

Starflight One
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