The Last Voyage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Last Voyage is a 1. Americandisaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone.[3][4] It stars Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone. The screenplay centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room. There are some plot similarities to the disaster involving the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria, which sank after a collision four years earlier. The film begins with a view of the SS Claridon, as the narrator (George Furness, who also plays Third Officer Osborne in the film) states, "The SS Claridon, a proud ship, a venerable ship, but as ships go, an old ship. A very old ship. For 3. Lost Voyage (2001)Typhoons, zero- zero fogs, the scorching heat of the tropics. Now she is scheduled for only five more crossings. Then a new ship, a posh, streamlined beauty, will take her place. It is then that the Claridon will pass into oblivion. [影評]幽靈船:神出鬼沒-Lost Voyage ※聲明:本站所有圖片由出租DVD擷取或是google搜尋轉貼,該影像財產權仍屬該公司版權所有,如有侵權煩請告知並立即移除 年份:2001. This is the trailer of Unified Film Organization LLC's direct-to-video suspense hit, Lost Voyage. Now this is probably a good movie though it was released on VHS and DVD since either 2001 or 2002 but its worth a good movie to watch. If you're wondering about the plot and wanted to try seeing it, feel free to check it out. She has an appointment with the scrapyard. But it's an appointment she'll never keep. For this is her last voyage."Cliff and Laurie Henderson and their daughter, Jill, are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished quickly, but not before a boiler fuel supply valve is fused open. Before Chief Engineer Pringle can manually open a steam relief valve, a huge explosion rips through the boiler room and the many decks situated above it, killing him and some of the passengers and trapping Laurie under a steel beam in their stateroom, in addition to causing widespread panic and opening a huge hole in the side of the ship. Cliff runs back to their stateroom and finds that he can't get Laurie out alone. He then finds Jill trapped on the other side of the room.
He tries to use a shattered piece of the bed to get to the other side, but it falls through the huge hole caused by the explosion. Third Officer Osborne believes that the crew should start loading passengers into the lifeboats, but Captain Robert Adams is reluctant, as he never lost a ship. He tries to reassure them that they are in no immediate danger but this doesn't help calm them. Cliff finally manages to rescue Jill by using a board to have her crawl across the hole on. Down in the boiler room, Second Engineer Walsh reports to Captain Adams that a seam to the bulkhead has broken away. Cliff tries to get the help of a steward, but to no avail. A passenger states that he overheard his conversation, and wants to help. Osborne reports that the boiler room is now half- full. The Claridon then begins to transmit an SOS, on orders of Captain Adams. Cliff and a few other men return to the stateroom to try to help free Laurie, but find they need a torch. The carpenter reports to the crew that the boiler room is now two- thirds full. To make matters worse, Walsh doesn't know how long the bulkhead will last. Captain Adams makes an announcement to the passengers to put on their life jackets. This is more reason to panic. They then begin loading and launching the lifeboats. Cliff finds a torch and tries to rush back to Laurie with the help of crewman Hank Lawson, but they still need an acetylene fuel tank. Walsh reports that if one more strut breaks, the ship will sink. On instruction from Cliff, Lawson puts Jill in a lifeboat, and asks him to return with an acetylene tank. The boiler room then floods, causing the ship to sink lower. On top of that, a second explosion occurs on the boat deck. Captain Adams is looking at his promotion letter to commodore of the line while Laurie holds a piece of a shattered mirror in her hand, contemplating suicide to free Cliff from risking his life to save her. She chooses not to die and tosses it away. When Cliff and Lawson are down in the dining room, it also floods, causing water to burst through the large windows. Captain Adams returns to his office to retrieve the ship's logbook and papers but is killed when the forward smokestack falls on him. Meanwhile, Cliff finally gets Laurie out from under the steel beam with the help of Lawson and Walsh. They get up to the boat deck along with Walsh. As they proceed to the stern where a lifeboat is standing by, Walsh jumps off the ship and swims away from it. Cliff, Laurie, Osborne, Ragland and Lawson jump into the water and find a lifeboat just as the ship sinks. Cliff personally helps Lawson aboard, in thanks for his devotion to assisting Laurie's rescue, and the narrator concludes with, "This was the death of the steamship Claridon. This was her last voyage."Production[edit]Stuart Whitman was originally announced for the male lead, and Sidney Poitier for the role of Hank Lawson.[5][6]The film originally was scheduled to be shot in Cinema. Scope off the coast of England, but instead it was filmed almost entirely in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Osaka. The ship used in the film was the legendary French luxury liner SS Ile de France, which had been in service from 1. Japanesescrapyard.[7][8]Her former owners initially attempted to block Stone's rental of the ship (for $1. MGM agreed not to identify the vessel by its original name when publicizing the film.[1. The ship was towed to shallow waters, where jets of water shot onto the ship from fire boats [9] flooded forward compartments and made it appear she was sinking by the bow. Her forward funnel was sent crashing into the deckhouse and her Art Deco interiors were destroyed by explosives and/or flooded. Because there were too many poisonous jellyfish in the Sea of Japan, the final lifeboat scene was filmed in Santa Monica, California.[1. In his autobiography Straight Shooting, Robert Stack recalled, "No special effects for Andy [Stone]; he actually planned to destroy a liner and photograph the process. Thus began a film called The Last Voyage, which . According to William H. Miller, American maritimehistorian, The French Line thereafter forbade any use of the ships they sold for scrap to be used for anything other than scrapping. The film marked the third and final pairing of Stack and Dorothy Malone. They had previously co- starred in the Douglas Sirk films Written on the Wind (1. The Tarnished Angels (1. Box office[edit]According to MGM records the film earned $1,0. US and Canada and $1 million elsewhere resulting in a $5. Critical reception[edit]Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called the film "exciting" and noted "the tension is held unrelentingly until the very end." He added, "Well, almost the end. Let's be honest. Things do finally come to a point where a reasonably realistic viewer is likely to mutter, 'Oh, no!' That's the point where the water in the stateroom is rising above Miss Malone's chin and Mr. Stack, Edmond O'Brien and Woody Strode are still working frantically with an acetylene torch to cut her free. Then the obvious desperation of the problem and the questionable buoyancy of the ship lead one to have misgivings about the reasonableness of Mr. Stone. But up to this point of departure, we have to hand it to him; he has put together a picture that has drama, conviction and suspense. Using as his setting the old condemned liner Ile de France . And in all of his performers, especially Miss Malone, he has got a moving reflection of frenzy, futility and fear."[1. The critic for Time called the film "the most violently overstimulating experience of the new year in cinema: an attempt by two shrewd shock merchants, Andrew and Virginia Stone . As a piece of professional entertainment, The Last Voyage is plainly superior to the picture it was patterned after, the British version of the loss of the Titanic. The script takes advantage of its fictional freedom, as the script of A Night to Remember could not, to focus its interest and excite its pace. The scenes of destruction are particularly explicit and dramatic . And yet, in its total effect, The Last Voyage lacks an element essential in all great disasters: dignity. Indeed, the idle depredation of a noble old ship, for the mere sake of salable sensation, may seem to some moviegoers an absolute indignity."[1. Awards and nominations[edit]A. J. Lohman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects but lost to Gene Warren and Tim Baar for The Time Machine. See also[edit]References[edit]^ abc. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .^Domestic figures see "Rental Potentials of 1. Variety, 4 January 1. Variety film review; January 2. Harrison's Reports film review; January 2. HEDDA HOPPER: Debbie Reynolds' Career Blossoming Los Angeles Times (1. Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 1. Jan 1. 95. 9: C2.^Looking at Hollywood: 'Last Voyage' Waits 'til Whitman's Ready Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Daily Tribune (1. Chicago, Ill] 0. 1 Nov 1. Looking at Hollywood: Liner Ile de France Sought for Actual Film Sinking Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Daily Tribune (1. Chicago, Ill] 2. 8 Nov 1. LINER TO SINK IN FILM: Ile de France Will Appear in Movie Before Scrapping New York Times (1. Current file) [New York, N. Y] 1. 0 Apr 1. 95. The Last Voyage main article at Turner Classic Movies^ ab. Notes for The Last Voyage at Turner Classic Movies^TV ACTOR IS CAST IN 'HALSEY STORY': Dennis Weaver, 'Gunsmoke' Performer, Signed - - lle de France Issue in Doubt Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1. Current file) [New York, N. Y] 1. 3 Apr 1. 95. MOVIE LOG ON A LUXURY LINER'S 'LAST VOYAGE' By RAY FALK. New York Times (1. Current file) [New York, N. Y] 2. 8 June 1. 95. X7.^The New York Times review^Time review. External links[edit].
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