When Time Ran Out... (1980) on Netflix
PG19802h 1mActionAdventureDrama
Hank Anderson, an oil rigger, gets his scientists' warning that Mauna Nui, the island's volcano, will erupt. Bob Spangler, who inherited the island, says the danger is exaggerated.
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Plot summary
Shelby Gilmore, who owns the Kalaleu Gilmore resort on a Pacific island, proposes to Kay Kirby, his secretary. Kay loves Hank Anderson, an oil rigger whose scientists report that Mauna Nui, the island's volcano, will erupt. Shelby's partner Bob Spangler inherited the island and is building up its tourism, so he tells the hotel's guests the threat is overblown. Guests include Francis Fendly, a bond thief on the run, Tom Conti, the New York City policeman pursuing him, and Rene and Rose Valdez, retired circus tightrope walkers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about When Time Ran Out... (1980)
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- Newman, contractually obliged to do another Allen film after Inferno, was unenthusiastic about appearing; asked by Larry King in 1998 whether he ever regretted making a film, he bitterly answered "that volcano movie", although his salary is believed to have started up his Newman's Own company.
- Initially budgeted at $20,000,000, the film had its budget cut drastically by Warner Bros. halfway through production, leaving special effects technician L.B. Abbott, who had helmed effects for The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, with very little; a more elaborate volcano model, matte paintings and a hotel miniature were scrapped.
- During filming Holden, who was ill and battling alcoholism, was sidelined by director Goldstone for being under the influence of alcohol and presenting a danger to himself and others during a complicated stunt sequence involving a bridge.
- The screenplay by Carl Foreman and Stirling Silliphant is loosely based on the 1969 novel The Day the World Ended by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts, detailing the factual 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique, which killed 30,000 people in five minutes by pyroclastic flow.
