See how many people you can spot in both movies. Many of the passengers on the Poseidon also enjoyed a well cooked (okay, burnt) dinner at the top of The Towering Inferno.Stuntman Dick Durock who appears as a passenger in the overturned ship was a stunt double for Guy Williams in Lost in Space.The filming minature of the Poseidon can be viewed at the San Pedro Maritime Museum in Los Angeles county.Jack Albertson appeared twice in Land of the Giants.Gene Hackman's brother Richard worked on The Poseidon Adventure as a stunt coordinator.Much of the filming took place on the Twentieth Century Fox stages B, 6, 14 and the moat for the water sequences. These include the scene of Eric Shea climbing up to the bridge in the storm, Red Buttons jogging along the deck, the communal area and corridor outside Rogo's stateroom, the sermon on the deck, and John Crawford in the engine room. Several scenes were filmed aboard the ocean liner the Queen Mary which now resides at Long Beach in California.The Poseidon Adventure principal filming took place between 27 March and 11 July 1972 (a total of 70 days).Corwin later worked with Irwin Allen for Viva Knievel and had an executive producer credit. Fox were eventually persuaded to fund around half of the estimated production costs and Irwin brought in his friends Sherrill Corwin and Steve Broidy to fund the rest. Irwin Allen's Kent Productions struck a deal with Avco-Embassy in 1969 to produce a movie version of Paul Gallico's book "The Poseidon Adventure" and when the deal fell through, Irwin went back to Twentieth Century Fox.BruceĪssistant Film Editor - William DeNicholasĭigital Color Correction - Brent EldridgeĬonstruction Coordinator - Charles Stevensĭrivers - Chris Haynes, Frank Khoury Trivia Abbott, A.S.C.īoom Operator - Orrick Barrett, Raol A. Production Illustrators - Tom Cranham, Dan Goozee Hair Stylists - Carol Pershing, Sheral Ross, Ann Wadlington Makeup Artists - Ed Butterworth, Del Acevedo, Allan Snyder, Daniel C. Second Assistant Directors - Les Warner, Don White Words and Music for the song "The Morning After" - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn Screenplay - Stirling Silliphant, Wendell Mayesĭirector of Photography - Harold E. Paul Stader (stunt double for Gene Hackman)ĭirector of Action Sequences - Irwin Allen Marilyn Stader (stunt double for Shelley Winters) Larry Holt (stunt double for Roddy McDowall)īobby Porter (stunt double for Eric Shea) Pepper Curtis (stunt double for Carol Lynley) Robert “Waddy” Wachtel - Crump, Long Haired Guitarist Hank Sylvie - Woman at Sermon and in Dining Room Ron Stein - Male Passenger next to Manny Rosen Paul Stader - Martin, "Sparks" Wireless Operator Sheila Scotti - Passenger at Sermon and in Dining Room Victor Paul - Kyrenos, falls through skylight (not seen)Įlizabeth Rogers - Woman Next to Mr. Maurice Marsac - French Naval Officer, Rescuer Marco López - Passenger at Sermon and in Dining Room Jack Krupnick - Overturning Ship Male (holding on to Red Buttons as the ship rolls over)īob Liddle - Passenger at Sermon and in overturned Dining Room Lorraine Keeling - Overturning Ship Female Kathryn Janssen - Woman Seated Next to Purser in Yellow Dress Valerie Hall - Passenger at Sermon, in Dining Room and as different passenger in overturned shipįrancine Henderson - Lady at Sermon and with broken neck after ship finished rolling overįrancine Henderson - Woman in Overturned Ship (as different passenger in different dress) Ruth Foster - Female Passenger in Overturned Ship Ruth Foster - Female Passenger at Sermon (in blond wig) Ray Didsbury - Male Passenger at Sermon and in Overturned Shipĭick Durock - Tall Passenger in Overturned ShipĬonnie Ducharme - Female Passenger next to Reverend Scott Rene Armand - Vocal for "The Morning After"Įldon Burke - Male Passenger in Overturned Shipĭusty Cadis - Man at Sermon and in Dining Roomīill Catching - Engineer in White Coverall Survivors must make a trecherous journey up through the hull of the Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film CorporationĬopyright 1972 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Plot SummaryĪn ocean liner is capsized by an enormous tidal wave.
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