Blackie (Clark Gable) is a pleasant, heroic, good guy who runs an exceptionally nice night club but is somehow thought of as scandalous. Huh. That doesn’t make sense, but onward. Blackie spends his time, when not doing the most respectable disreputable things possible, with old friend Father Mullin (Spencer Tracy). Into his club comes prissy
In this parody of disaster movies… What? It’s not a parody? This is serious? OK. In this deeply deeply serious disaster film, a plane-full of eccentrics (Jan Sterling, Sidney Blackmer, David Brian, Claire Trevor) make excessively long speeches, sometimes accompanied by flashbacks, detailing far more of their personal lives than other passengers or the audience
During the final voyage of the liner Claridon, a boiler explosion rips a hole in its hull. While Captain Robert Adams (George Sanders) and Engineer Walsh (Edmond O’Brien) first attempt to keep the ship afloat, and then get the passengers to safety, Cliff Henderson (Robert Stack) struggles to save his trapped wife (Dorothy Malone). All the
On New Year’s Eve, a giant wave capsizes the luxury liner…wait. It seems to be terrorists with a bomb. Well, that’s a horrible idea. Let me check on that. Yup, it’s terrorists. OK, scratch the wave. Stereotypical Middle Eastern terrorists blast a hole in the side of the Poseidon, causing it to tip over in
The board members of White Star, led by Bruce Ismay (E.F. Fürbinger), use the fragile financial condition of the company brought about by the expense of building The Titanic, as an opportunity to buy up stock. If the ship’s maiden voyage can break speed records, the stock price will rise and they’ll make a fortune.
An entertainment spy sneaks into Michael Crichton’s room and steals his script for Twister. His bosses make a few cosmetic changes, paste a new name on it, and rush it into production so it can beat Twister‘s release date. Wait, that’s not the plot of Tornado!. That’s a reasonable supposition on how it was made.