The Last Voyage (1960) on Netflix
The aging liner Claridon is bound for Tokyo when an explosion tears through its boiler room. Laurie Henderson is trapped in her cabin, and her husband Cliff fights to free her.
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- IMDb6.7/102,811 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes60%
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Plot summary
The Claridon, a transpacific liner near the end of its service, carries the Henderson family to Tokyo. A fire breaks out in the boiler room and is put out, but a boiler fuel valve is left fused open. Before Chief Engineer Pringle can open a steam relief valve by hand, an explosion tears through the boiler room and the decks above it, opening the ship's side. Cliff Henderson reaches his cabin to find Laurie pinned under a steel beam, and Jill stranded on the far side of the hole. Captain Robert Adams hesitates to launch the lifeboats while the crew works to hold the bulkhead. Cliff turns to the crew for help, and crewman Hank Lawson joins the attempt to free Laurie.
Cast
- George Furnessas Third Officer Osborne
- Marshall Kentas Quartermaster
- Andrew Hughesas Radio Operator
- Richard Norrisas 3rd Engineer Cole
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Voyage (1960)
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- The liner was towed to shallow water, where jets from fire boats flooded its forward compartments to make it look as if it were sinking by the bow. The forward funnel was sent crashing into the deckhouse and the Art Deco interiors were destroyed by explosives and flooding.
- The ship used in the film was the condemned French luxury liner SS Ile de France, which had played a major role in rescue operations during the 1956 Andrea Doria disaster off Nantucket, Massachusetts.
- The liner's former owners tried to block Stone's rental of the ship, which cost $1.5 million, and withdrew their opposition only when MGM agreed not to identify it by its original name when publicizing the film.
- At the start of the film all the shipboard extras are of European origin, but as the ship begins to sink and the outdoor filming moves to the Inland Sea, most of the extras become Asian, with an obvious attempt to have them avert their faces from the camera.
- Because of the poisonous jellyfish in the Inland Sea, the final lifeboat scene had to be filmed in Santa Monica, California.
- Stuart Whitman was originally announced for the male lead of The Last Voyage, and Sidney Poitier was announced for the role of Hank Lawson.
