He was fantastic in Loney Are the Brave (1962), the Kirk Douglas movie that was Kirk Douglas’s favorite Kirk Douglas movie. The horse was good, too.
All I really remember about the movie is Marjoe Gortner’s fro and saying that a lot of guys in the national guard wore wigs to hide their long hair.
Carol Lynley, man I’d forgotten her. God bless the 70s.
Yup. Poseidon Adventure is quite good, with a great soundtrack.
Hindenburg also has a great score, and at least is shortish so its ok.
Did John Williams even take a breath during the '70s?
I just watched Earthquake and yes the special effects don’r really hold up as well as I remembered.
However, the effects in the Towering Inferno still hold up fairly well after 43 years and this was a time when there was nothing CGI and practical effects using fire are difficult
Watch this scene for an example
or this one
I’d eat 50 eggs if he said to.
I think the way people are reacting to the earthquake is more problematic. That’s not how people usually respond in earthquakes.
No.
Just leave before the second feature…
She’s 75 now. Can you believe that? 
Saw it and the other disaster flicks in the theater when I was young. Great times!
Ah, yes Sensesurround. Amazing what you can do with a pair of 15" speakers and a 1000 watt amp. The subsonic wall of sound was known to vibrate loose the first row of seats in the theatre.
Kennedy said that on the set of “Earthquake” he finally got to meet Ava Gardner after 20 years in the business (while in the army he was a technical advisor and extra on Phil Silvers/Stt Bilko tv show) and he couldn’t shake hands with her because his hands were dirty.
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in a letter to a friend in the late 1960s about being at an Oxford faculty party which included several visiting Americans. He hit it off with a pretty American woman and they were having a fine time together. A friend of Tolkien’s, who had met the woman earlier, came up smiling and said, “Neither of you really know who the other is, do you?” Tolkien was already pretty famous for The Lord of the Rings, but was somewhat sheltered from pop culture, so he didn’t recognize the lady - Ava Gardner! He didn’t know anything about Hollywood, and apparently she wasn’t much of a reader.
Well the reboot of MST3k just did Avalanche, which supposedly makes this look like The Godfather. So who knows…
It seems to me that there was a Doper trying to put together a Sensesurround theater to show this movie, but I can’t find the thread.
Oh good grief, seeing O J Simspon in the role of a hero, that takes one back.
I just looked at the acting credits for Earthquake and discovered, to my astonishment, that the small part of Rosa was played by Victoria Principal.
I remember Rosa as being pretty big.
