The Last Voyage is a 1960 American action-adventure film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. The screenplay centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room.
Laurie and Cliff Henderson and their daughter Jill are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail to Japan on board the SS Claridon. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished quickly, but not before several safety valves have been ...
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The Last Voyage is a 1960 American action-adventure film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. The screenplay centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room.
Laurie and Cliff Henderson and their daughter Jill are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail to Japan on board the SS Claridon. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished quickly, but not before several safety valves have been fused shut. When Chief Engineer Pringle attempts to open one of them, a huge explosion rips through the boiler room and the many decks situated above it, killing him and passengers and trapping Laurie under a steel beam in her stateroom, in addition to opening a huge hole in the side of the ship. Most of the action revolves around Cliff's efforts to free his wife before the vessel sinks.
Other key characters are Captain Robert Adams, a rather arrogant and clueless man who likes to impress his passengers and intimidate his crew and officers;...
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