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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American action-adventure disaster film and a sequel to The Poseidon Adventure(1972)[1] directed by Irwin Allen[2] and starring Michael Caine and Sally Field.
The film was a critical and commercial failure, and was the only Allen disaster film not to receive any Academy Award nominations.
Characters
Salvage team
- Michael Caine as Captain Mike Turner
- Karl Malden as Wilbur Hubbard
- Sally Field as Celeste Whitman
- Telly Savalas as Dr. Stefan Svevo
- Paul Picerni as Kurt
- Patrick Culliton as Doyle
- Dean Raphael Ferrandini as Castrop
- Peter Boyle as Frank Mazzetti
- Angela Cartwright as Theresa Mazzetti
- Jack Warden as Harold Meredith
- Shirley Knight as Hannah Meredith
- Veronica Hamel as Suzanne Constantine
- Shirley Jones as Nurse Gina Rowe
- Slim Pickens as Dewey "Tex" Hopkins
- Mark Harmon Elevator Operator Larry Simpson
In 1973, soon after the first film came out, producer Irwin Allen proposed a sequel that would have had the survivors testifying in a hearing on the disaster in Austria, the country of the Poseidon's parent company. While on a train to the hearing, a miles-long mountain tunnel would collapse, leaving the survivors of the train trapped inside, struggling to make their way out. This premise was eventually used in the 1996 Rob Cohen film Daylight with Sylvester Stallone.
Relationship of Gallico's novels to the films
Paul Gallico's novel The Poseidon Adventure had ended with the ship's sinking. The original film changed much of the novel's plot and ended with the ship still afloat. After the huge success of the film, Gallico was asked to write a novel that would be a sequel not to his first novel, but to the film. It would feature a new group of people entering the still capsized ship and could be made into a second film. In response, Gallico wrote Beyond The Poseidon Adventure, which was published in 1978.