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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)


Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award. A sequel, "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979), also based on a novel by Gallico, was a critical and commercial failure. The S.S. "Poseidon", an ocean liner slated for retirement, is on her way to Athens. Despite protests from the captain, who fears for the ship's safety, the new owner's representative insists he go full speed to save money, preventing "Poseidon" from taking
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American action-adventure disaster film and a sequel to "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine and Sally Field. The film was a critical and commercial failure, and was the only Allen disaster film not to receive any Academy Award nominations. The capsized luxury liner S.S. "Poseidon" is still afloat after six survivors have been rescued via helicopter. Tugboat captain Mike Turner (Michael Caine) discovers the shipwreck. Accompanied by second mate Wilbur (Karl
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the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role. It also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and for Best Original Score by John Williams. A 1979 sequel, "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure", which was also based on a novel by Gallico, was released later with an equally star-studded cast, but was a commercial and critical failure. In 1998, several episodes of the daytime soap "
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


afloat. After the huge success of the film, Gallico was asked to write a novel that would be a sequel not to his first novel, but to the film. It would feature a new group of people entering the still capsized ship and could be made into a second film. In response, Gallico wrote "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure", which was published in 1978. However, once again the film that followed ended up bearing little resemblance to his book. Instead of sinking, the ship explodes. A region
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the disaster in Austria, the country of the "Poseidon"s parent company. While on a train to the hearing, a miles-long mountain tunnel would collapse, leaving the survivors of the train trapped inside, struggling to make their way out. This premise was eventually used in the Rob Cohen film "Daylight" (1996) with Sylvester Stallone. Paul Gallico's novel "The Poseidon Adventure" had ended with the ship's sinking. The original film changed much of the novel's plot and ended with the ship still
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"Jenny" will be taken from him when they get to port, but Celeste reveals a diamond she salvaged from the "Poseidon". Celeste asks Turner, "Are you going to kiss me now?" and Turner replies, "I was going to kiss you anyway." They do so and the tugboat "Jenny" sails away into the sunset with the survivors. The film presently holds a score of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four
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Disaster film


would continue with "Airport '77" (1977) and "The Concorde ... Airport '79" (1979), with George Kennedy portraying the character Joe Patroni in each sequel. "The Poseidon Adventure" was followed by the sequel "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979). The genre began to burn out by the late-1970s when the big-budget films "The Swarm" (1978), "Meteor" (1979), "Hurricane" (1979), "The Concorde ... Airport '79
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Disaster film


$79 million - 376 million in 2017 adjusted dollars, and "Airport 1975" $47 million - 235 million in 2017 adjusted dollars - in theatrical rentals. Arguably the greatest of the 1970s disaster films, "The Towering Inferno" was a joint venture of 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. and was produced by Irwin Allen (eventually known as "The Master of Disaster", as he had previously helmed "The Poseidon Adventure" and later produced "The Swarm", "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" and "When
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Poseidon (fictional ship)


replace him with another officer. Of the hundreds aboard, no more than a handful survive. In the 1979 film "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure", which is a direct continuation of the story from the first film, the "Poseidon" is an abandoned overturned wreck that has not yet sunk. She is boarded by a small group of salvagers and a group of thieves in disguise (who are looking for gold and a lost plutonium shipment). Eventually trapped in the ship, they encounter a group of passengers and crew
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


in reality was not a wealthy passenger but a sommelier (part of the "Poseidon"s crew), holds onto his wine bottle as he is gunned down and perishes. The rest of Turner's group makes it to his tugboat and they sail away. Water continues to flood the "Poseidon", causing the boilers and then the plutonium cargo to erupt, exploding the ship's hull and sinking it stern first. As it sinks Svevo and his men are killed. On board Turner's boat, Turner accepts that his tugboat
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The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)


The Poseidon Adventure is a 2005 made-for-TV disaster film based on Paul Gallico's novel of the same name. It is a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name and its 1979 sequel. The plot centers on the SS "Poseidon", a 135,000-ton state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town to Sydney as well as the stories and dramas of some of the 3,700 passengers and crew. Passenger and father, Richard Clarke (Steve Guttenberg), is
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)


The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's eponymous 1969 novel. It features an ensemble cast, including five Academy Award winners: Gene Hackman; Ernest Borgnine; Jack Albertson; Shelley Winters; and Red Buttons. Parts of the movie were filmed aboard the . The plot centers on the fictional SS "Poseidon", an aged luxury liner on her final voyage from New York City to Athens before being sent to the scrapyard. On New
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plutonium up to the hull, which is still above water but is slowly sinking. In another section of the ship, Turner and the survivors exit the ship through an underwater side door, but due to shortage of scuba tanks, Wilbur (unknown to Turner and his group) sacrifices himself by swimming underwater and disappearing. Turner and Celeste swim to the tugboat "Jenny" and move it closer to the "Poseidon" as the remaining survivors swim towards it. Svevo's men see them and open fire. Tex, who
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


original disaster film," with "shoddily painted sets; tiny studio-created fires all of the same size; and dialog that could be written by a 1st-grader." Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times" called the film "an instance of too little too late. The sequel is painstakingly crafted and pleasant to watch but seems routine and even tedious at times, mainly because there has been so much razzle-dazzle on the screen since the S.S. Poseidon capsized—including, of course, Allen's
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Poseidon (film)


in July 2005. As with the 1972 "The Poseidon Adventure" film, which based many of its sets on rooms aboard the RMS "Queen Mary", the film's set designers drew inspiration for some of the spaces aboard the fictional "Poseidon" from rooms aboard the "Queen Mary 2", most notably in "Poseidon"'s ballroom, which is modeled on the main dining room of "Queen Mary 2". On the soundstage at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, separate sets for each main
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


Malden) and passenger Celeste Whitman (Sally Field), he heads out to claim salvage rights, as the tugboat "Jenny" lost her cargo in the same tsunami that capsized the "Poseidon". They are soon followed by Dr. Stefan Svevo (Telly Savalas) and his crew, who claim to be Greek Orthodox medics who received the ship's SOS. They board the doomed vessel through the bottom hull opening left by the rescue team (from the previous movie), then become trapped after the entrance collapses. The
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conclusion that a murderer is on board. Hannah dislocates her shoulder while helping her husband. Svevo and his men are found gathering a cargo of plutonium. Svevo reveals that his real intention for boarding the "Poseidon" was to retrieve his lost shipment of plutonium, adding that he can't let Turner and his group go now. However, before anyone is killed, another explosion occurs, allowing Turner's group to escape through another cargo room. Turner, Mazzetti and Simpson find guns and attempt to make a fight of it
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The Poseidon Adventure (novel)


The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the S.S. "Poseidon", due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 99-foot wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks. Formerly the RMS "Atlantis", the SS "Poseidon" is a luxury ocean liner from the golden age of travel, converted to a single-class, combination cargo-
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)


Sunset Beach" entitled "Shockwave" revolved around an earthquake and tsunami in California and major parts of the episodes take place on a cruise ship, the S.S. "Neptune" (Neptune being the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon) that is capsized by the giant wave. The episode borrowed heavily from the plot line of "The Poseidon Adventure" and garnered huge audiences and spurring NBC to repeat it several weeks later in prime time. "The Poseidon Adventure" has been remade twice, first as a television special in
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Poseidon (fictional ship)


The SS "Poseidon" is a fictional transatlantic ocean liner that first appeared in the 1969 novel "The Poseidon Adventure" by Paul Gallico and later in four films based on the novel. The ship is named after the god of the seas in Greek mythology. In the 1969 novel, the ship is traveling across the Atlantic on her first month-long cruise with African and South American ports of call, after her recent sale and conversion from the 35-year old British ocean liner RMS "Atlantis" into the American cruise ship
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List of former Universal's Islands of Adventure attractions


Poseidon. The Keeper led guests to the Temple of Poseidon, where the evil god appeared and welcomed guests to their new permanent home. The Keeper revealed himself to be Zeus in disguise and, after an effects-laden battle, defeated Poseidon before transporting guests back to the chamber in which the show had started. Based on guest polling data, Universal decided to revise the attraction story. Now, guests meet Taylor, a nerdy archaeologist, who guides them through the attraction, albeit slightly differently. Upon reaching the lost city
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)


the propeller shaft tunnel. They hear a noise from outside and bang on the hull to attract attention. The rescuers cut through the hull, assist the six survivors from the ship, inform them that no one else survived, and fly them to safety. "The Poseidon Adventure" has received largely positive reviews, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reporting 79% of 24 critics gave the film a positive review, with an above average score of 7.1/10. "Boxoffice" magazine reported "The Poseidon Adventure" was the #1
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)


on ABC on October 27, 1974, it earned a 39.0 household share, making it the sixth highest film to ever air on network television. "The Poseidon Adventure" has become a cult film, particularly among gay audiences. It has been released on DVD and Blu-ray. The film won a Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects and an Academy Award for Best Original Song (for "The Song from "The Poseidon Adventure"", also known as "The Morning After"). Shelley Winters won
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Tomasz Beksiński


films e.g. "Wild at Heart", "Silence of the Lambs", "Apocalypse Now", "", "Birdy", "Die Hard", "Don't Look Now", "Frankenstein", "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure", "The Swarm", "Someone's watching me!", "Lethal Weapon", "1941", "Pet Semetary", "Reservoir dogs". He also translated some lyrics of Marillion, Iron Maiden, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, The
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Universal's Islands of Adventure


. As with almost any amusement park, older attractions are sometimes removed to make way for newer ones. At Islands of Adventure, some have simply been closed with no replacement like Island Skipper Tours while others like Poseidon's Fury were changed from their initial concept to the attraction that operates today. Islands of Adventure consists of eight themed "islands", the majority of which are based on licensed intellectual properties, with only two lands based on original Universal Studios works. They are, in clockwise order from entry: Port of
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Michael Caine


), "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979), "The Island" (1980), "The Hand" (1981) and a reunion with his "Sleuth" co-star Laurence Olivier in "The Jigsaw Man" (1982). Caine's acclaimed roles during the 1980s included a BAFTA-winning turn in "Educating Rita" (1983) in which he co-starred with Julie Walters, an Oscar-winning performance in "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), and a Golden
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Slim Pickens


" (1975), "Rancho Deluxe" (1975), "Tom Horn" (1980), also with McQueen, "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979) with Michael Caine and Karl Malden, "An Eye for an Eye" (1966) and "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973). He had a small but memorable role in Steven Spielberg's "1941" (1979) in scenes with Toshiro Mifune and Christopher Lee; during one scene, he enumerates the objects on his
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Telly Savalas


, "Fatal Flaw" (both 1989), "Flowers for Matty", "It's Always Something" – with Kevin Dobson reprising his role of Bobby Crocker, now an Assistant District Attorney – and "None So Blind" (all 1990). Savalas was part of an all-star cast in the movies "Escape to Athena", "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (both 1979) and "Cannonball Run II" (1984), and continued to appear in a number of film and television guest
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The Beeps


/Ep20 Sep. 19 Bouncy Bouncy Beep Beep S2/Ep21 Sep. 19 Big Beepday Bash S2/Ep22 Sep. 20 Yuk Says No S2/Ep23 Sep. 24 Wheely Helpful S2/Ep24 Sep. 25 Teeny Beep Takes Off S2/Ep25 Sep. 26 Carnival S2/Ep26 Sep. 27 Peas and Beeps S2/Ep27 Apr. 25 Stuck on You! S2/Ep28 Dec. 9 Hole Lot of Trouble S2/Ep29 Dec. 15 A Little Adventure S2/Ep30 Dec. 16 The Lost Houses S2/Ep31 May 1 Bounceberry Pie S2/Ep32 Dec. 23
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Irwin Allen


" (1980). For theatrical release, he produced and directed "The Swarm" (1978) and "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979), and produced "When Time Ran Out" (1980). These three films were box office disasters. "No, I'm not going to run out of disasters," he said in a 1977 interview. "Pick up the daily newspaper, which is my best source for crisis stories, and you'll find 10 or 15 every day... People chase
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Disaster film


" (1979), "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979) and "When Time Ran Out..." (1980) performed poorly at the box office signaling declining interest in the disaster film product. Although "The Big Bus" (1976), an earlier disaster film spoof, had failed to be a hit, the end of the trend was marked by the 1980 comedy "Airplane!" which fondly spoofed the clichés of the genre to surprising box office success, producing a sequel of its own, "
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Andrew J. Kuehn


Andrew J. Kuehn (September 24, 1937 – January 29, 2004) is American film producer notable for revolutionizing the American film trailer in the early 1960s and for producing and directing featurette films for television like "Lights, Camera, Annie!" "Getting in Shape for the "Main Event"", "Behind the Scenes: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure", documentaries and feature-length motion pictures, including "D.O.A.", "Get Bruce" and "Terror in the Aisles." Andrew J. Kuehn was raised
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Marneen Fields


Jones "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure", Michelle Phillips "The Man with Bogart's Face", Morgan Fairchild "Time Express", Belinda Montgomery "The Man from Atlantis", Mary Crosby "Dynasty", Samantha Doane "The Gauntlet", Linda Purl "Matlock", Natasha Richardson "Patty Hearst", Karen Black "Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop", Linda Hamilton "Murder She Wrote", Melanie Griffith "She's in the Army Now", Tovah Feldshuh "Terror out of the
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Paul Stader


the Planet of the Apes", "Blazing Saddles", "The Great Waldo Pepper", "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure", and a 1985 television movie of "Alice in Wonderland". Stuntman Ted Batchelor (born 1959), originally from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and a Guinness record holder, visited Stader's Malibu home and set himself on fire. Such stunts were later declared illegal in many places. Batchelor said that Stader, from whom he sought advice regarding stunts, "was the nicest man I ever
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Mark Harmon


, "Delvecchio", "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" and had supporting roles in the feature films "Comes a Horseman" (1978) and "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979). He then landed a co-starring role on the 1979 action series "240-Robert" as Deputy Dwayne Thibideaux. The series centered around the missions of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Emergency Services Detail, but was also short-lived. In 1980, Harmon gained a regular role in the prime time soap
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" wrote that Irwin Allen "is so obviously ill-equipped to stage action scenes in cramped quarters that his audience winds up wishing as fervently as his characters for a chance to see the light of day." "Variety" wrote that the film "comes off as a virtual remake of the 1972 original, without that film's mounting suspense and excitement." Gene Siskel gave the film one star out of four and slammed it as "virtually the same story as the
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Buck Rogers XXVC


special abilities based on their home planet. Following lackluster response, TSR decided to try again with a more conventional table-top RPG, this time based on the original 1928 Philip Francis Nowlan novel "Armageddon, 2419 A.D." (Ace, Aug 1978, ) and subsequent 1929 comic strip continuity, in which resurgent tribal Americans overthrow their Red Mongol conquerors. The basic game was called the "High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game" (Sep 1993, ) and was co-designed by Jeff Grubb and Steven Schend.
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Veronica Hamel


Veronica Hamel (born November 20, 1943) is an American actress and model. The daughter of a Philadelphia carpenter and a housewife, Hamel graduated from Temple University. She worked as a secretary for a company that manufactured ironing board covers. She began a fashion modeling career after being discovered by Eileen Ford. In her first film role, she played a model in 1971's "Klute", followed by roles in the disaster films "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" and "When Time Ran Out". She was the
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Angela Cartwright


her most recent feature film roles, she played Theresa Mazzetti in "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979), directed by "Lost in Space" producer Irwin Allen; and made a cameo appearance as Reporter #2 in the 1998 "Lost in Space" film. Cartwright married Steve Gullion in 1976. They have two children. She has been a photographer for 30 years. Her work is displayed at her studio in Studio City, Los Angeles. A partial listing of Cartwright's appearances in movies and television appears below
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The Swarm (film)


Havilland, was stung during the production. It was one of two disaster films (the other being "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979)) directed solely by the "master of disaster" Allen, who had experience directing several films and many episodes of his TV shows. The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John J.B. Wilson's book "The Official Razzie Movie Guide" as one of the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made, where Wilson states that under Allen's unsubtle direction, "despite the
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


group with Turner encounters the ship's nurse, Gina Rowe (Shirley Jones) and two passengers, elegantly dressed Suzanne Constantine (Veronica Hamel) and war veteran Frank Mazzetti (Peter Boyle), who is searching for his missing daughter Theresa (Angela Cartwright). Theresa is found, as are elevator operator Larry Simpson (Mark Harmon) and a "billionaire" called "Tex" (Slim Pickens) who clings to a valuable bottle of wine. Later they also find the blind Harold Meredith (Jack Warden) and his
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


. In the ensuing shoot-out, Mazzetti and Castrop, another of Svevo's men, are killed. Water floods the deck as Turner's group proceeds up to the next deck, where an injured Hannah is unable to climb a ladder: she falls into the rising water and drowns. While trying to rescue her, Turner loses all of his salvaged gold. Svevo and his one remaining gunman head back up to the ship's stern, where the rest of Svevo's team attempt to use a crane to raise the
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


own 'Towering Inferno.'" Clyde Jeavons of "The Monthly Film Bulletin" wrote that the film "is not so much a sequel as a remake, and a fairly dismal, cut-price one at that, its shoddiness being risibly exemplified from the start by the almost "Python"-esque studio-tank storm which assails Michael Caine's see-sawing salvage tug." In 1973, soon after the first film came out, producer Irwin Allen proposed a sequel that would have had the survivors testifying in a hearing on
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Poseidon (fictional ship)


the "Queen Mary" after the liner tilted alarmingly after being hit by a large wave. He also describes the "Poseidon"'s fatal flaw as "riding high in the water, improperly ballasted and technically unseaworthy", this, he wrote, made the "Poseidon" vulnerable to capsizing. In the 1972 film "The Poseidon Adventure", the ship is in the Mediterranean on her final voyage, which will take her to the breaker's yards in Greece, when an undersea earthquake produces a tsunami that capsizes the
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Poseidon (fictional ship)


who are still aboard. In the end, the "Poseidon's" boilers and plutonium cargo explode, destroying most of the hull and sinking the ship permanently and, worse, irradiating her wreckage to unsafe levels. In the 2005 TV film "The Poseidon Adventure", "Poseidon" is a modern motor driven cruise ship using propeller pods, which is sailing from Cape Town, South Africa on a cruise through the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia. The events that lead to the capsize of the ship vary greatly from
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


wife Hannah (Shirley Knight), who were waiting to be rescued. Water continues to submerge decks and more explosions occur. Turner and his group find the purser's office, where Svevo decides he and his men will search for other survivors, parting ways with Turner's group. Another explosion causes the safe in the purser's office to fall through the bulkhead and open, revealing gold coins (each worth 100 times its weight in gold), diamonds and cash. Turner and Wilbur excitedly gather the coins. Unknown to
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure


Turner and the survivors, Suzanne is actually working with Svevo. She takes a list containing information about a cargo of crates from the purser's office. Going off on her own, she gives Svevo the document but decides to rejoin Turner's group. Svevo orders Doyle, one of his men, to kill Suzanne. He shoots her, but before she dies she strikes Doyle with an axe, killing him. While making their way up through the decks, Turner and the others find Suzanne's corpse and reach the unpleasant
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The Son of Neptune


The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy-adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology. It is the second book in "The Heroes of Olympus" series, preceded by "The Lost Hero" and followed by "The Mark of Athena". The story follows the adventures of amnesiac Percy Jackson, a demigod son of Poseidon, as he meets a camp of Roman demigods and goes to Alaska with his new friends Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang to free the Greek god of death
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Irwin Allen


... and then let the show be canceled rather than take a cut in the budget". In 1969 Allen signed a three-picture deal with Avco Embassy to make "The Poseidon Adventure", "Mo Man's World" and "Almost Midnight". However the deal did not lead to any films. In the 1970s, Allen produced the most successful films of his career: "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) and "The Towering Inferno" (1974), directing the action scenes for both. Their
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Cinema Research Corporation


of Death 1978, Cops Robin 1978 TV, The Great American Girl Robbery 1979, More American Graffiti 1979, Breaking Away 1979, HOTS 1979, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 1979, The Kids Are Alright 1979, The Hitter 1979, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? 1979, Elvis 1979 , The Late Great Planet Earth 1979, The Meateater 1979. The Jazz Singer 1980, Cosmos 1980, Altered States 1980, Popeye 1980, Superman II 1980, Fade to Black 1980, Galaxina 1980, When Time Ran Out
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Sunset Beach (TV series)


outrageous storyline was the earthquake/tsunami story, in which Sunset Beach was struck by a massive earthquake, trapping many characters – most of them each other's rival – together in life and death situations. While half the cast battled the disaster on land, the rest of the cast was on a pleasure cruise aboard a ship that was overturned – à la "The Poseidon Adventure" – by a tsunami created by the earthquake. This storyline was in many ways similar to the plot of "The Poseidon Adventure". The
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History of film


studios increasingly focused on producing a smaller number of very large budget films with massive marketing and promotional campaigns. This trend had already been foreshadowed by the commercial success of [[disaster film]]s such as "[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]" and "[[The Towering Inferno (film)|The Towering Inferno]]". During the mid-1970s, more pornographic theatres, euphemistically called "adult cinemas", were established, and the legal production of [[hardcore pornography|hardcore pornographic]] films began. Porn
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Ronald Neame


Smith her first Oscar. Neame was recruited to direct "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) after the contracted director left the production. He later characterised "The Poseidon Adventure" as "my favourite film" because it earned him enough to retire comfortably. He enjoyed a long friendship with Walter Matthau, whom he directed in two later films, "Hopscotch" (1980) and "First Monday in October" (1981). Neame's final feature-length film, "Foreign Body", a comedy starring Victor
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The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)


November 20, 2005. It also aired in 2005 on the Seven Network in Australia (with the name "The New Poseidon Adventure"), and in 2006 on the USA Network in the United States. In this adaptation, the plot differs from the original book and first feature film in that the ship capsized because of a terrorist act. Though many of the characters remained the same, several were added. Some were dropped altogether. The character of Mike Rogo was changed to a sea marshal who works for the U.S.
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The Morning After (Maureen McGovern song)


"The Morning After" (also known as "The Song from "The Poseidon Adventure"") is a song written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the 1972 film "The Poseidon Adventure". It won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 45th Academy Awards in March 1973. After the film's release, it was recorded by Maureen McGovern and became a hit single for her following its release in May 1973. It was a number-one hit in the US for two weeks during August
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Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures


Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures is a video game linked to SeaWorld's popular Shamu orca shows. The game was released in November 2005 and is available for GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. In the game, Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, tries to destroy the SeaWorld theme park and replace it with Atlantis. The player controls Shamu, the protagonist, who attempts to defeat Poseidon and the evil Kraken. Shamu collects power ups and performs various feats over 20 levels and
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Aporia: Beyond the Valley


Aporia: Beyond the Valley is a single-player, first person, explorative and adventure game developed by the game development company Investigate North located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Aporia: Beyond the Valley is published by Green Man Gaming based in London, England, United Kingdom. It was released on July 19, 2017 through Steam, Green Man Gaming and Humble Bundle. Aporia: Beyond the Valley is an adventure puzzle game seen from a 1st person perspective. It has an emphasis on exploration and adventure. The player is tasked
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Poseidon (film)


Poseidon is a 2006 American disaster film directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen. It is the third film adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel "The Poseidon Adventure", and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, and Andre Braugher. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. in association with Virtual Studios. The film had a simultaneous release in the IMAX format. It was
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Mission Odyssey


home turns into a true adventure. The sea god Poseidon has made a bet with Athena that Odysseus and his team, consisting of the horned mythical creatures Titan, Zephyr, the son of a god of wind, teenage barefoot clairvoyant Nisa, clumsy Philo, rapacious Navigator Dates as well as Diomedes and a clever owl, will never make it home on their own. To achieve this Poseidon interferes in every episode of the series, with Athena constantly reminding Poseidon that direct intervention violates their betting rules. The series covers the most
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The Poseidon Adventure (novel)


line on the "Poseidon". Mike Rogo curses them because of his World War II experiences, and laughs when their efforts fail. The group goes their separate ways—Mary Kinsale and Nonnie on a ship back to England; Mike Rogo, Manny Rosen, Hubie Muller back to New York, Martin back to Chicago, Dick, Jane and Susan Shelby back to Michigan; and the Turk back to Turkey. Aboard the American ship, they watch as the "Poseidon" sinks. Jane Shelby, finally giving up hope
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The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)


decides to stay and help the injured, but knows her mother and younger brother need to leave before it is too late. The others leave the ballroom as Shelby's mother promises to leave traces where the group has gone. They then painfully depart and Shelby waves to her mother with a bloody hand as episode one ends. Episode two begins with the navy realizing that the SS "Poseidon" has gone missing, and they send out a rescue team. In one of the "Poseidon" crew quarters, Richard and Shoshana
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Irwin Allen


Academy Award for the film's optical and physical effects. Allen hoped to follow up on the success of "The Poseidon Adventure" with a film based on the novel "The Tower", but the film rights had already been taken by Warner Bros. He looked for an alternative and found a similar story in "The Glass Inferno". Rather than produce competing movies, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. agreed to coproduce "The Towering Inferno" with a script based on both novels and a $14 million budget.
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city outside Poseidon Eight. The Doctor convinces Dana to reopen the tunnels; she also gives away that the Zaralok, the Vashta Nerada and the radiation all seemed to appear after a flash of light a short distance away from Poseidon only a few days ago. After getting back out into Poseidon, the Doctor finds the ingredients for the cure (simply numerous types of vegetation from the seabed) and heads back to Dana's lab. He manages to create the cure and heal Dana, who was starting to suffer from the radiation
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Action film


Examples include "Independence Day", "Daylight", "Earthquake", "Geostorm", "2012", "The Day After Tomorrow", "The Poseidon Adventure", "Poseidon", "The Towering Inferno", "Dante's Peak", "Deep Impact", "Volcano", "The Core", "Armageddon", "Twister", "Pompeii", "San Andreas", "Into the Storm", "The 5th Wave", and "The Hurricane Heist
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Geoffrey Wellum


Battle of Britain, including "Spitfire Ace" produced by RDF Media/Channel 4 (2004), "Dangerous Adventures for Boys" produced by Channel 5 (2008). and "The Spitfire: Britain's Flying Past" produced by the BBC (Sep 2011) To mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the BBC commissioned a one-off drama for TV called "First Light", based on Wellum's book of the same name. The film was first shown by the BBC on 14 September
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Paul Gallico


Allen's motion picture adaptation of Gallico's book was instantly recognized as a great movie of its kind. In his article "What makes 'Poseidon' Fun?", reviewer Vincent Canby coined the term "ark movie" for the genre including "Airport," "The High and the Mighty," "A Night to Remember," and "Titanic" (the 1953 movie). He wrote that "'The Poseidon Adventure' puts the Ark Movie back where God intended it to be, in the water
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The Grass Harp (film)


escape Verena's oppression, Dolly, Collin, and Catherine run away to an old tree house in the woods. Their rebellion sparks a series of events that change their lives and the entire town as well. "The Grass Harp" feature film was closely based on Truman Capote's 1951 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant and Kirk Ellis. Silliphant's prior credits included "In the Heat of the Night", "The Towering Inferno", and "The Poseidon Adventure
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Northern Tier High Adventure


Northern Tier High Adventure is a collection of high adventure bases run by the Boy Scouts of America in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Minnesota, Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park and Canadian Crown Lands, Manitoba's Atikaki Provincial Wilderness Park, and points beyond. Northern Tier is the oldest of the four National High Adventure Bases operated by the Boy Scouts of America; the others currently in operation are: Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, Florida Sea Base in the Keys, and The Summit in West Virginia. Programs at Northern
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High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game


called the "High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game" (Sep 1993, ) and was co-designed by Jeff Grubb and Steven Schend. The "High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers War Against The Han Campaign Supplement" (Dec 1993, ) was designed by Steven Schend alone. This new Buck Rogers role-playing game was a return to the themes of the original Buck Rogers comic strips. This game included biplanes and interracial warfare, as opposed to the space combat of the earlier "Buck Rogers XXVC" game.
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Universal's Islands of Adventure


"The Mystic Fountain" that entertains and interacts with guests. "Poseidon's Fury" is an indoor special-effects show located in the Lost City section. Seuss Landing is based on the works of author Dr. Seuss. The island features several Seuss-themed attractions, especially geared towards small children, as well as a Green Eggs and Ham Cafe and Circus McGurkus restaurant. As in the books, one of the unique characteristics of this area is that there is not a single straight line anywhere. Palm trees bent by
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Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)


disaster film format. He was highly influenced by the 1972 film "The Poseidon Adventure": he considered "[turning] the spaceship upside down" before cutting the concept for monetary constraints; and the character of Foon Van Hoff (Debbie Chazen) was heavily based on Belle Rosen (Shelley Winters). He diverged from the trope in its climax; the format of "Doctor Who" dictated the requirement of an antagonist: Max Capricorn, whose plan was to sabotage the ship as part of an insurance scam. Davies
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The Last Templar (miniseries)


The Last Templar is a four-hour Canadian miniseries, based on the 2005 novel "The Last Templar", which aired in the U.S. on January 25 and 26, 2009, starring Mira Sorvino, Scott Foley, Victor Garber, Anthony Lemke, Kenneth Welsh, Danny Blanco Hall and Omar Sharif. The miniseries is produced by Muse Entertainment Enterprises. Emmy Award-winning Robert Halmi Sr. (who produced the "Gulliver's Travels" miniseries), along with Robert Halmi Jr. ("The Poseidon Adventure"),
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Bill Robens


Bill Robens is a Los Angeles-based playwright, screenwriter and actor, whose written works include "The Poseidon Adventure: the Musical" (co-written with Genemichael Barrera), "The Towering Inferno: the Musical" (co-written with Steve Marca), a comedy variety show, "A Fish Without His Flippers" and "A Mulholland Christmas Carol," which earned Bill an L.A. Weekly Theatre Award for Best Adaptation. Bill Robens began writing for the theatre shortly after becoming a member of Theatre of NOTE
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Empires of the Deep


US$140 million. As of , the film remains unreleased, going through four directors, 10 scriptwriters and with many of the actors and production and technical crews still unpaid. Chinese oligarch Jon Jiang's original brainchild, in 2006, was to make a Greek mythical aqua-adventure epic based on Poseidon but with a geo-political patriotic twist featuring the South China Sea (as a Chinese territory). The story is centered on creatures fighting for power in the deep and unknown 80% of Earth's water also known as
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock


The Devil at 4 O'Clock is a 1961 American Eastman Color disaster film, starring Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Based on a 1959 novel with the same title by British writer Max Catto, the film was a precursor to "Krakatoa, East of Java" and the disaster films of the 1970s, such as "The Poseidon Adventure", "Earthquake" and "The Towering Inferno". On the fictional Pacific island of Talua in French Polynesia, some 500 miles from Tahiti, Father Doonan has
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Gordon Thomson (actor)


's "After They Were Famous" series) in 2002, and "" in 2006. That same year, he had small roles in the feature films "Poseidon" (a remake of "The Poseidon Adventure"), and the Academy Award-nominated "Little Miss Sunshine". From 2011, to 2014, Thomson appeared on the soap opera web series "DeVanity", and in 2015 began starring as Maxmillian Winterthorne in the soap opera web series "Winterthorne". In 2017, he played the role of
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Mike Vogel


to-video. Vogel's final 2005 role was in "Rumor Has It...", starring Jennifer Aniston, in which he had a supporting role as the son of Kevin Costner's character. Vogel's first 2006 role was in the disaster film "Poseidon", a remake of the 1972 film "The Poseidon Adventure"; he plays the fiancé of Emmy Rossum's character. The film, which had a budget of $160m, opened on May 12 and grossed $181,674,817 at the international box office.
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Kevin Dillon


and "The Doors" (1991), in which he played drummer John Densmore. Much of Dillon's 2000s work has been in television, including the CBS series "That's Life" as Paul DeLucca and the Fox series "24" as Lonnie McRae. He appeared in the 2006 film "Poseidon", a remake of "The Poseidon Adventure", and on Donald J. Trump's "Fabulous World of Golf" on The Golf Channel in April 2010. He appeared in the family comedy film "Hotel for
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The Poseidon Project


The Poseidon Project". The film was directed by British brothers Arthur Jones and Luther Jones. The film is about Beijing-based author and scuba instructor Steven Schwankert's search for the British submarine HMS "Poseidon". Schwankert was looking for interesting wrecks to dive in northern China when he found "Poseidon" on a list of unexplored dive sites. He spent the next six years working on the project, bringing together research in China and the UK to piece together the history of the submarine. "Poseidon" collided with
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Beyond the Tesseract


Beyond the Tesseract is a text based adventure game developed in 1983 by Canadian author David Lo for the TRS-80. The game was notable for its unique take on the genre and approach to mathematical entities and abstract concepts. In one section the player must navigate a text adventure game, inside the text adventure game. In another the player, while asleep, derives a proof using physical representations of various symbolic logic components. The game is intentionally vague using a VERB NOUN gameplay mechanic with a vocabulary of just 200. In 1988 the
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Titanic II (film)


had previously been used as stand-ins for the fictional similarly fated ocean liner SS "Poseidon" in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) and the original "RMS Titanic" in the 1979 television miniseries "S.O.S. Titanic". The film has received a mixed response from some film critics. On the website TheCriticalCritics.com the film was reviewed as being "a mixed bag" since "it’s better than one might expect, but not as good as one might hope." Though panned generally as "pretty lackluster"
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Wolfgang Petersen


2000. Petersen's $160 million epic film "Poseidon", a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel "The Poseidon Adventure" (previously adapted for the 1972 disaster film), was released by Warner Bros. in May 2006. The film performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $60 million in domestic box office receipts by early August, although international sales surpassed $121 million. Although hired to direct the film adaptation of "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card that was scheduled for release in
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When Time Ran Out


". Film rights were bought by Irwin Allen. In 1975, Allen was riding high on the success of "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno". He announced he would make a film of "Day the World Ended" along with "Poseidon II" and "Circus". He announced he had signed a two picture deal with Warner Bros, but would still make those three films for Fox. Allen began to prepare "The Swarm" but also started pre-production on "Day" in
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King of Gods


Based on Greek legend, King of Gods is a fantasy adventure game where players roam the world, drawing out powers from collectible cards. After selecting a nickname, players build and strengthen themselves as well as their teams by collecting, enhancing, and evolving a variety of unique legendary gods and heroes such as Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades from hundreds of cards. Currently, the game is available only in Australia. Players can challenge each other in the arena. Players with higher ranks will receive more credits to exchange for cultivation
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Irwin Allen


showmanship was compared to that of P. T. Barnum and Cecil B. DeMille, and they prompted scholarly analysis of the subsequent popularity of the disaster genre. "The Poseidon Adventure" was based on the Paul Gallico novel of the same name and directed by Ronald Neame. Unable to find a studio to fully back the venture, Allen raised half the $5 million budget, with 20th Century-Fox putting up the rest; the film eventually grossed over $100 million. L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers won a Special Achievement
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)


. As seawater floods the dining room, those remaining attempt to climb the tree, but their weight causes it to fall. The water fills up the room and the "Poseidon" begins sinking. Scott leads his group through the ship's hull toward the engine room. While climbing a ladder inside a ventilation shaft, the ship rocks from more explosions. Acres falls and perishes despite Rogo's attempt to save him. Leaving the shaft, the group meets a large band of survivors led by the ship's medic, heading
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The Poseidon Adventure (novel)


cruise liner. The ship is on her first North Atlantic crossing under new ownership, celebrated with a month long Christmas voyage from Lisbon to African and South American ports. On December 26, the "Poseidon" is overturned when it has the misfortune of being directly above the location of an undersea earthquake. The ship capsizes as it falls into the sudden void caused by the quake displacing millions of gallons of seawater. Starting from the upper deck dining room, preacher Reverend Frank "Buzz" Scott leads a small group of (
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The Poseidon Adventure (novel)


After their rest they see the way out—five decks up, on top of a fractured steel wall they name "Mount Poseidon". During the difficult climb, Linda Rogo rebels and attempts to find her own way. She chooses an unstable route and falls to her death, impaled on a piece of sharp steel. An explosion rocks the ship, and Reverend Scott, in an insane rage, denounces God, offers himself as a sacrifice, and commits suicide. Mary Kinsale, an English spinster, screams in grief
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The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)


the hull. The survivors jump into the water, and swim to nearby rescue boats. The survivors watch as "Poseidon" sinks bow first, while Suzanne Harrison (Alex Kingston), a British agent who had been helping out, laments the fact that there are so few survivors. The film was made for television by Larry Levenson Productions, directed by John Putch, written by Bryce Zabel, starring Adam Baldwin, Rutger Hauer and Steve Guttenberg. It was first aired on NBC as a single three-hour event on
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Emmy Rossum


Daaé, Rossum received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical or comedy. She also received a Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Actress, along with a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. In 2006, Rossum appeared in "Poseidon", Wolfgang Petersen's remake of the disaster film "The Poseidon Adventure". She played Jennifer Ramsey, the daughter of Kurt Russell's character. Rossum described the character as being proactive and strong in all situations, rather than a damsel in distress
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Sarah Bowdich Lee


Sarah Bowdich Lee (née Wallis) (10 Sep 1791–22 Sep 1866) was an English author, illustrator, traveller, zoologist, botanist, and pteridologist. Sarah Lee was born on 10 September 1791, the only daughter of John Eglinton Wallis of Colchester. In 1813, she married the naturalist Thomas Edward Bowdich, whose interests in nature, travel, and adventure she shared. In 1819, they went to Paris to visit Baron Cuvier; Thomas had previously visited him in 1818 with a letter of introduction obtained from Dr. William
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Signal Transfer Point


A Signal Transfer Point (STP) is a router that relays SS7 messages between "signaling end-points" (SEPs) and other signaling transfer points (STPs). Typical SEPs include "service switching points" (SSPs) and "service control points" (SCPs). The STP is connected to adjacent SEPs and STPs via signaling links. Based on the address fields of the SS7 messages, the STP routes the messages to the appropriate outgoing signaling link. Edge STPs can also route based upon message body content using
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Poseidon Linux


Poseidon Linux is Linux distribution, a complete operating system, originally based on Kurumin, now based on Ubuntu. It is developed and maintained by a team of young scientists from the Rio Grande Federal University in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and the MARUM institute in Germany. The name Poseidon was chosen after the "regent of the seas" in Greek mythology, since a large number of oceanologists have been involved in the development of the system. The 3.x family was pre-presented in 2008 at the 9th Free Software
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Doctor Who: The Adventure Games


while the Zaralok tries to ram its way in; while they manage to escape, the Zaralok destroys one of the tunnels, separating them from the TARDIS. They head over to the city's central building, Poseidon Eight, where they are greeted by an oceanographer called Martin. The Doctor explains to Amy how sea levels rose dramatically, causing the entire human race to rebuild on higher land. However, underwater cities like this one, Poseidon, were built in order to harvest resources from the ocean floor. He also notes
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how the Zaralok is obviously not indigenous to Earth, and must have somehow relocated from another world. Martin explains how Poseidon's workers have been suffering from some form of disease, and how Jones, the intelligent computer monitoring Poseidon, has been forced to place the crew under quarantine. Martin then takes the Doctor and Amy to meet Dana, the crew's medic, and Oswald, the captain. Before they are able to explain any more about the situation, the lights go out due to a generator malfunction; when they
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come back on, Martin's flesh has been eaten away from his skeleton inside his diving suit. The Doctor realises that Poseidon has also been infested by Vashta Nerada. The Doctor and Amy travel through Poseidon's tunnels, while still being stalked by the Zaralok, in order to reach the generator and switch the lights back on. After evading a pair of divers, now dead and re-animated by the Vashta Nerada, they succeed and head back to meet Oswald. The Doctor explains how he found a radiation detector on
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Los Angeles Maritime Museum


. The museum is operated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 10 AM to 5 PM. Exhibits include a history of commercial diving in Los Angeles Harbor and a Navy Hall that features large ship models such as the U.S. Navy cruiser and the "SS Poseidon" model from the 1972 disaster film "The Poseidon Adventure". The museum also has an exhibit that chronicles the once thriving San Pedro fishing industry. The commercial fishing exhibit focuses on the history
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List of former Universal's Islands of Adventure attractions


, the party is captured by Darkenon, a new evil god-like being. Fortunately, Poseidon, a benevolent god in this version, comes to the guests' rescue thanks to Taylor's assistance and defeats Darkenon. While Poseidon's Fury's plot has changed, its arsenal of special effects has remained intact. The battles use water projection screens, fire and water effects, and high-speed set-changing technology. Over in Toon Lagoon, the island's show arena has hosted numerous presentations. Originally, it featured
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Poseidon (DC Comics)


Poseidon is the name of a DC Comics deity who is based on the Greek god of the same name. Due to his status as Greek god of the sea, the character has figured primarily in stories relating to two of DC Comics' main superhero properties: Wonder Woman (an Amazon warrior with various connections to the Greek pantheon) and Aquaman (the king of the underwater city of Atlantis). Poseidon first appears in "Flash Comics" #9 and was adapted by George Pérez. Poseidon's history in Greek mythology
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Poseidon Linux


-down of the Kurumin project. The Ubuntu-based releases allow the installation in Portuguese, Spanish, English, German, French, Greek, and other languages. The development team stated, that after Poseidon 5.0, the distribution would focus on bathymetry, seafloor mapping, and GIS software. Many of the bundled CAD and scientific programs were removed, but may be separately available for download from compatible repositories. The current running Poseidon version is 8.0, and is based on 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, as the goal
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