1973
The Essentials
| WHO: | WHAT: |
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| Acres | The grand-daddy of all disaster movies doesn't quite float... |
| WHY: | |
| Dunno how many licks it takes to get to the center, since Our Hero bites it within the first half hour... | |
Director: Ronald Neame
Production: 20CF Writer: Stirling Silliphant, Wendell Mayes, based on novels by Paul Gallico Cast: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell, Eric Shea, Leslie Nielsen, Sheila Mathews Running time: 117 m. Revues: Pauline Kael in The New Yorker said, "The only loss I regretted for an instant was Roddy McDowall ..." while Judith Crist observed in her New York magazine review, "The first to perish was ... alas, one of the best actors — Roddy McDowall ..." Favorite movie tie-in: the Poseidon Adventure Board Game! |
| OVERALL RATING: |
McDOWALLISM: |
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| 6 of 10 |
3 of 10 |
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