Seven Waves Away ( Abandon Ship (Seven Seas Away) ) ( Seven Days from Now (7 Waves Away) )

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The dilemma is terrible and turns the ordeal into a nightmare, especially when the storm sets in. This is not a pleasant film but rather extremely unpleasant, but it is a terrific drama which really puts your conscience to the test. Who could possibly make right decisions in such a situation? As it is, Tyrone Power lives up the responsibility while all the others wash their hands. Which is better? The rest of the movie all happens in the ocean. Here, Alec Holmes (Powers), will be in charge of a small boat that has way too many people aboard. Holmes makes the decision that some have to go-- and this brings us to the plot of the story. The small group spots a lifeboat in the distance. Alec notes that it's the Captain's shore boat. At only 18 feet long it obviously already has too many people in it. They're better off where they are. Someone is spotted swimming towards them. Alec dives in to rescue them and it turns out to be Julie (Zetterling), the ship's nurse and Alec's girlfriend. Ecstatic over finding each other the reunion is cut short by a shark circling them. Alec and Julie have drifted closer to the heavily populated Captain's boat where Mac (Boyd) calls to them and fires a gun at the shark. I worked on this movie as Third Assistant Director. The whole film was shot on, what was called the Silent Stage at Shepperton Studios just outside London in England. A huge water tank had been built with a panoramic canvas around 120° showing a sky. The tank on the side of the panorama was sloped and slightly below so water constantly flowed over this edge and the slope reduced the size of the waves so that it appeared the the sea went on forever. It had three wave machines that could create any kind of wave movement, two water slopes with tanks which could empty in an instant to create a huge wave. it also a variety of fans and wind machines and in the violent storm sequence a Merlin aircraft engine with a propeller was brought in that created hurricane like winds. Speakeasy says: "Despite her decline, this is not a sad or bleak book but an enjoyable history ... Any fan of the collectible Citadel “Films of” book series will appreciate the modern twist on that format, a full biography followed by an expanded filmography." Full review.

How interesting was the cross-section of people, the varying types, good and bad, selfish and selfless? Crew and passengers, men and women? Jacqueline T. Lynch, author of Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer.Star., says: "A prime example of a classic film fan taking the reins to produce a scholarly study of a neglected figure from the Golden Age of classic films in a way that I feel is refreshing, infinitely helpful to fans and students of old movies." Full review. All of the camera work was carried out around the boat angling it for every shot so that the camera always pointed towards the panoramic canvas.Nuovo Olimpo **** (2023, Damiano Gavino, Andrea Di Luigi, Luisa Ranieri, Greta Scarano, Aurora Giovinazzo) – Classic Movie Review 12,710 | Derek Winnert on Hamam [Il bagno turco] [Steam: The Turkish Bath] **** (1997, Alessandro Gassman, Francesca d'Aloja, Mehmet Günsür) – Classic Movie Review 12,711 Silver Screenings says: "A fascinating account of an ambitious and hard-working woman ... Aliperti’s book is well written and incredibly well researched." Full review. Who can say what each and everyone would be willing to decide on if confronted with the inevitable decision of life and death, or basic survival as in this case. It's certainly something to think about in quiet moments.

Storm Fear *** (1955, Cornel Wilde, Dan Duryea, Jean Wallace, Lee Grant, Steven Hill) – Classic Movie Review 3,546 | Derek Winnert on Maracaibo ** (1958, Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer, Michael Landon, Joe E Ross) – Classic Movie Review 12,726 According to Kinematograph Weekly the film was "in the money" at the British box office in 1957. [2] See also [ edit ]I suspect the movie is correct in suggesting that under normal circumstances people identify with the more idealistic equality standard. But in severe conditions, we're likely drawn in a more pragmatic utilitarian direction. Nonetheless, the two really do clash at a fairly basic level. Whatever one's opinion on these matters, the film dramatizes the academic issues pretty effectively. The presentation of the people? The situation of the dog and the indication of what was to follow? Those who stayed? Those who had to go, those who decided to go? The bonds of fear? I'm not sure it was peace or war time that this story is supposed to have taken place. The ship is an ocean liner on a round the world cruise. But what happens is that it strikes a loose mine floating out in the south Atlantic, 1500 miles from the coast of Africa. I can't believe that people would be taking cruises in the middle of a war nor would any pleasure ships be sailing. The theme of survival and man's wanting to live desperately? The people in the lifeboat, the people hanging on? The significance of life? The overwhelming fear? Motivations, greed, selfishness? I found this film riveting throughout as the dialogue progressed and decisions were made, rightly or wrongly, on people's lives.

It was originally titled Seven Waves Away but the alternative US titles are Abandon Ship! and Seven Days From Now. One of the first things a viewer might notice about the film is that it's so disjointed that it must be "based on a true story." Else why does Power first climb aboard a raft with four others, then leave them and swim to the distant boat. What became of the raft and the people on it? Why is the raft and its passengers IN the movie if it hadn't happened to be there in historic reality? Second, wow, what a lot of familiar faces are in this boat. Not just Power and Nolan, but a lot of British actors and actresses whose faces will be familiar, if not their names. James L. Neibaur of Examiner.com calls it: "One of the most interesting and important film books of the young year," adding, "the documentation is original and significant." Full review. The film is grim, gets audiences to identify with the passengers in the situation, the desire to stay alive, the issues of self-sacrifice for others.Well, Power has inherited a mess. The ship had hit a derelict mine that exploded under the keel, killing almost all the other passengers. Some of the survivors are injured or otherwise weakened by age or illness. The engineer, Lloyd Nolan, is mortally wounded. With his last breath he urges Power to get rid of the detritus and keep only the strong aboard, who might have a chance if they row for Africa. Noland dives overboard and drowns himself. Power broods and decides in the end that Nolan was right. There are too many passengers and he decides to abandon the weak. Abandon Ship opens with the focus on a derelict mine drifting aimlessly in the open sea. Moments later there's an explosion and shouts of "Abandon Ship!" in the distance. A voiceover declares that the super liner Crescent Star exploded one September 27 and sank in 7 minutes. Of the 1,156 souls on board, 37 survived. Seven Waves Away (1957) chronicles the trip of several passengers after being sunk the ship by a bombshell when they were traveling and then some members of the crew include the Captain and executive officer take a boat to save themselves. As during WWII , over twenty survivors of a ship find themselves in the same boat that's only made for nine . But the captain (Lloyd Nolan) is seriously wounded and the executive officer (Tyrone Power) must take charge , and as a hurricane approaches, and their food and water run out, he must decide who to put over the side, and who stays and gets a chance at survival . With one of the men who sunk it . They adrift on a lifeboat 14 of these survivors must be cast adrift! Which will the Captain choose? There is a 15-minute segment in this movie that is so intense that if I was in the theater when this first came out I know I would be gripping on to the arms of my chair, possibly drawing blood. The mixture of young and old, weak and strong, living and dying, makes Powers decisions of who will remain on and who will except about a very profound one. in fact, this film raises so many ethical questions that you may be thinking about this for hours after watching it. As Tyrone Power describes it, the mine didn't just strike the ship in one spot. It went under the ship and bounced along the bottom and when it exploded, it cut the ship right in half. It was down faster than the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. Less than 10 minutes, no lifeboats launched, no distress signal sent.

Filmed in England (released in England as Seven Waves Away), and almost totally set in a lifeboat adrift in the south Atlantic. Writer-director Richard Sale (“The Girl Next Door”/”Let’s make it Legal”/”Gentlemen Marry Brunettes”) starts out with a gripping disaster adventure story at sea that soon becomes too bleak to be enjoyable, as it remains static and claustrophobic as a sea captain is faced with making life and death decisions. The idea behind the story is better than its execution, as it becomes a provocative thinking man’s film that is unfortunately overwrought in its survival of the fittest morality tale. It was remade as a TV movie The Last Survivors (1975). But, it's well to keep in mind that a Utilitarian standard is used all the time when making life-and-death decisions in wartime. So-called "collateral damage", for example, amounts to a rough utilitarian calculus applied during bombing campaigns where civilian casualties are inevitable. What's so unnerving in the movie is that unlike bombing campaigns we can put names and faces on those sacrificed, which is why Power is advised not to get too familiar with the others. Audience response to disasters and accidents? Identifying with the situation, with the survivors, particular types in the lifeboat? Tyrone Power as the hero? How heroic was he by temperament and character? His role on the ship, in the lifeboat? As a person, doing his duty? The questions of conscience, emotions? The difficulty of his decisions? TheSeven Waves Away is a 1957 British adventure film directed by Richard Sale and starring Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, and Stephen Boyd. After his cruise ship hits a mine and with the captain dead, an officer has to make an agonizing decision on an overcrowded lifeboat. In passing—Moira Lister's sardonic young woman appears to admire Power's strength of character simply for his strength and not for whether he's made the morally right decision. Suggesting that strength of character is in some sense more basic than right and wrong points toward the amoralism of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.) The boat they're on is the captain's ship to shore craft. It accommodates nine and twenty seven are in Power's charge as the senior ship's officer. Who's to live and who's to die?