The Last Voyage

US (1960): Disaster

Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone play a married couple taking a pleasant ocean voyage. Alas, their ship is scuttled by a boiler-room explosion, which takes place even before the opening credits have faded. While the other passengers scurry to safety, Malone falls through a weakened floor and is helplessly trapped. Stack stays behind, determined to extricate his spouse before she is drowned by the rising waters.

To achieve total authenticity, the filmmakers purchased the obsolete French liner Ile de France and smashed up the old tub sufficiently to convince the audience that the vessel was in imminent danger of sinking below the waves (the final sinking scene was actually shot on a sound stage; after all, Dorothy Malone was not that expendable). Andrew L. Stone directs for MGM. Cast also features George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode and Jack Kruschen. (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)

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