𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝘿𝙤𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚 & 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨! After a boiler explosion aboard an aging ocean liner, a man struggles to free his injured wife from the wreckage of their cabin and ensure the safety of their four year-old daughter as the ship begins to sink. Cliff Henderson and his family are traveling aboard the SS Claridon en route to Japan. She is an old ship on her fifth and last voyage before heading to the scrap yard. An explosion in the engine room weakens the hull and the ship is now taking on more water than the bilge pumps can deal with. The captain seems to have difficulty accepting that his ship will sink. Cliff's wife, Laurie, is severely injured and trapped under a fallen steel beam in their cabin. While the men in the engine room work frantically to shore up the hull, Cliff tries to free Laurie from the wreckage with the help of one of crew member Hank Lawson.
Movie Trivia
The ship used by the filmmakers was the SS Ile de France, the famous French liner that cruised the Atlantic from 1926-59. She was leased for $4,000 a day. After shooting completed, she was re-floated (having been partially sunk for the film) and towed to the scrap yard. She has a more heroic place in history, however. It was she that played a major role in the rescue of the passengers from the Italian liner Andrea Doria in 1956, after the latter ship collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm and sank off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was the first ship to arrive at the scene of the collision and immediately began taking aboard the Andrea Doria's passengers.
According to maritime historian William J. Miller, the famed French Line was so horrified that its former flagship would be used in such a way that it demanded that the Ile de France's name be removed from her bow and that in no way would any references be made to them.
Tammy Marihugh, who plays the Hendersons' daughter, grew up and became an exotic dancer.
Edmond O'Brien took issue with the safety precautions during filming, and left the production in protest. When he returned, he discovered that his part had been greatly reduced and he was no longer required on set.
For the scene in which the dining room is seen flooding, with water rushing in through the portholes, fire boats were positioned alongside the ship. They fired water at the portholes into the dining room, which was still well above sea level.
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