The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Ronald Neame’s 1972 capsized ocean liner. Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters. Defining 1970s disaster film. Original.
Ernest Borgnine
This archive gathers the films featuring Ernest Borgnine reviewed at Master of Worlds: “All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, 1979, 2022)”, “Escape from New York (1981)”, “Poseidon Adventure (1972)”, “The Dirty Dozen (1967)”, and “The Poseidon Adventure (1972)” — 5 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Ernest Borgnine serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is John Carpenter’s dystopian action film and one of the foundational works of 1980s post-apocalyptic cinema. Carpenter directed and…
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, 1979, 2022) — Review
Erich Maria Remarque published Im Westen nichts Neues in 1929. The novel sold over a million copies in its first year. The Nazis later burned it and stripped Remarque of his German citizenship. The book remains one of the most important antiwar novels ever written and one of the best primary…
The Dirty Dozen (1967) — Review
Lee Marvin, the famous misfit-unit war film, and the anachronistic line that broke it. The Dirty Dozen reviewed honestly at 5/10 by a viewer who stopped watching.
Poseidon Adventure (1972)— Review
Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters, and the founding document of 1970s disaster cinema. The Poseidon Adventure reviewed at 7/10 after a dozen viewings.