The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 action adventure disaster thriller film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner by a tidal wave and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to journey up to the bottom of the hull of the liner before it sinks.

It won the Academy Award for Best Song for "The Song from 'The Poseidon Adventure'" (aka "The Morning After"), which became a hit single for Maureen McGovern, as well as winning an Academy Award for Special Achievement in Visual Effects. Shelley Winters was also nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a film for the role.

The plot centers upon the fictional ocean liner SS Poseidon, an aged luxury ship from the golden age of travel, on its final voyage from New York City to Athens before being sent to the scrapyard. On New Year's Eve, it is overturned by a tsunami wave caused by an underwater earthquake, trapping passengers and crew inside. A renegade preacher attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety. The description of a tsunami is scientifically inaccurate because they are small in open waters and the ship was more accurately capsized by a rogue wave which was corrected in later versions of the story.

Parts of the movie were filmed aboard the RMS Queen Mary.

A huge box office success, it was the top grossing film of 1972. The success of this film is in the vein of other all-star disaster films in the seventies such as Airport (1970) and later films like The Towering Inferno (1974), and Earthquake (1974). A sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979), had an equally star-studded cast, but was a box-office and critical failure. The film was remade two times, first as a television special in 2005 with the same name, and a theatrical release with the name Poseidon in 2006.

This is about the novel. For the films of the same name that were based on the book, see The Poseidon Adventure (film) and The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film).

The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, released in 1969. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the SS Poseidon by a tidal wave in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull, now that it's the top, before the ship sinks.

The Poseidon Adventure is a 2005 action and adventure film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name.

The plot centered around the SS Poseidon, a state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia. On New Year's Eve, it is overturned by a terrorist bomb, killing almost all aboard. A passenger attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety.

The film was made for television by Larry Levenson Productions, directed by John Putch, written by Bryce Zabel, starring Adam Baldwin and Steve Guttenberg. It was first aired on NBC as a single three-hour event on November 20, 2005. It also aired in 2005 on the Seven Network in Australia (with the name The New Poseidon Adventure), and in 2006 on the USA Network in the US. In this adaptation, the plot of the original book and first feature film was altered in that the ship capsized due to a terrorist act. Though many of the characters remained the same, several were added. Some were dropped all together. The character of Mike Rogo was changed to a sea marshal who works for the Department of Homeland Security. The story was altered because it was felt that the original's disaster was unrealistic since a tsunami out at open sea is only a few inches high and does not to have the strength and size to seriously affect a large vessel.

This movie received less-than-enthusiastic reviews from critics (although there were exceptions, such as The New York Times and the New York Post ), as well as fans of the original. The movie was mainly put into production in order to ride on the wave of public interest that the 2006 Wolfgang Petersen adaption of the same story was expected to generate.

The final scenes of the film include details from the novel of the Poseidon ' s sinking that were not part of the original 1972 film adaptation. The final shot was from the air as the ship's propellers slipped beneath the surface, which, by design or coincidence, matches several photographs taken by a news plane of the final moments of the SS Andrea Doria in 1956.

Some characters and rooms were renamed to pay homage; the ship's captain was named Captain Gallico for writer Paul Gallico on whose novel the story is based; the ship's doctor was named Dr. Ballard for Bob Ballard (I) leader of the 1985 expedition that discovered the remains of the Titanic; the ship's lounge named Jak's Lounge for Jak Castro president of The Poseidon Adventure Fan Club.

Many new characters were added to this remake while only retaining a few of the original characters from the novel and film version. Some characters were simply renamed, others were dropped altogether.

Armand Assante and Sam Elliott were both offered roles.

C. Thomas Howell's father worked as a stuntman on the original film.

A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive. Written by John Vogel

At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90' tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top. Written by TomRicciardi