The Dryden will screen The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame, U.S. 1972, 117 min., 35mm) as part of the Ernest Borgnine series.

Notable for its incredible practical effects, The Poseidon Adventure is a classic tale of a disastrous inverted cruise. Ernest Borgnine and Gene Hackman lead a cast of stars through a watery labyrinth as they struggle to escape their ship, which has been flipped upside-down by a freak wave. The film was by necessity an expensive production, requiring specially built sets that could tilt and flood. It became a massive success and helped to spawn the "disaster-movie" craze popular throughout the rest of the 1970s.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-Jan-30]