Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American disaster film, a sequel to the 1972 film, The Poseidon Adventure. It was directed by Irwin Allen and starred Michael Caine and Sally Field. The film was a critical and commercial failure, highly disliked by co-star Angela Cartwright and was the only Allen disaster film not to receive any Academy Award nominations.
Continuing from the original movie's conclusion (with the Poseidon still afloat) with...
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American disaster film, a sequel to the 1972 film, The Poseidon Adventure. It was directed by Irwin Allen and starred Michael Caine and Sally Field. The film was a critical and commercial failure, highly disliked by co-star Angela Cartwright and was the only Allen disaster film not to receive any Academy Award nominations.
Continuing from the original movie's conclusion (with the Poseidon still afloat) with the six survivors of Reverend Scott's team rescued, a tugboat captain, Mike Turner, discovers the behemoth wreck of the settling ocean liner.
Accompanied by his privately ill second mate Wilbur and passenger Celeste Whitman, they head out to claim salvage rights for the catastrophe, as the tugboat Jenny lost her cargo in the storm that capsized the ocean liner.
They are soon followed by terrorists in disguise, Dr. Stefan Svevo and his crew, who claim to be doctors who received the Poseidon's S.O.S., but are really after gold and a lost...
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