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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Played straight with the crew, but the civilian characters number only three (allowing them to have an entire subplot to themselves).
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* ChekhovsGunman: The unnamed teenaged passenger who tries to help Cliff free the trapped Laurie. He's initially just someone to cover some ground that Cliff can't do himself to show that they can't find a torch to free Laurie and then leave once things get hopeless. Then, [[spoiler:at the end of the movie, he shows up in a lifeboat coming ''from'' the rescue ship with an acetylene torch, having alerted them to Laurie's struggles just in time to save her.]]
* DeathByMaterialism: Downplayed, but [[spoiler:Captain Adams]] is crushed by a falling smokestack while trying to retrieve the ship's logbook and other papers during a frantic evacuation.
* DeathByMaterialism: Downplayed, but [[spoiler:Captain Adams]] is crushed by a falling smokestack while trying to retrieve the ship's logbook and other papers during a frantic evacuation.
* FlawlessToken: Lawson is the only prominent African-American character and might be the bravest, most levelheaded character in the movie.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: While Captain Adams has some ReasonableAuthorityFigure moments, First Officer Osborne reacts to the boiler explosion more quickly and decisively than his superior.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: While Captain Adams has some ReasonableAuthorityFigure moments, First Officer Osborne reacts to the boiler explosion more quickly and decisively than his superior.
* NoNameGiven: The young passenger who tries to help Cliff free Laurie in the first act is unnamed.
* {{Retirony}}: Captain Adams is on his last sailing voyage before being promoted to commodore of the line, and the trope is [[spoiler:played straight when he dies at the end of the movie.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last scene of the plucky Second Engineer Walsh - a fairly important character in the story - is jumping overboard and swimming away when the ship enters its final death throes.
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Lawson is the most muscular character in the movie and sheds his shirt while working to aid in the rescue and damage control efforts.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last scene ofthe [[spoiler:the plucky Second Engineer Walsh Walsh]] - a fairly important character in the story - is jumping overboard and swimming away when the ship enters its final death throes.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last scene of
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* UrExample: One of them. Though preceded by Film/ANightToRemember as the first major disaster epic, it took a very different course then a lot of what was to follow.
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* UrExample: One of them. Though preceded by Film/ANightToRemember ''Film/ANightToRemember'' as the first major disaster epic, it took a very different course then a lot of what was to follow.
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* {{HSQ}}: Before James Cameron's Film/Titanic1997, this probably had the highest of any shipboard disaster movie. The film crew sank a ''real'' cruise liner to give it maximum realism and it ''shows.''
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* HSQ: Before James Cameron's Film/Titanic1997, this probably had the highest of any shipboard disaster movie. The film crew sank a ''real'' cruise liner to give it maximum realism and it ''shows.''
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* HSQ: {{HSQ}}: Before James Cameron's Film/Titanic1997, this probably had the highest of any shipboard disaster movie. The film crew sank a ''real'' cruise liner to give it maximum realism and it ''shows.''
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* UrExample: The first serious disaster epic, and as such, it does a ''lot'' of things differently than later examples by Creator/IrwinAllen, Creator/JerryBruckheimer, or Creator/MichaelBay.
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* UrExample: The One of them. Though preceded by Film/ANightToRemember as the first serious major disaster epic, and as such, it does took a ''lot'' very different course then a lot of things differently than later examples by Creator/IrwinAllen, Creator/JerryBruckheimer, or Creator/MichaelBay.what was to follow.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Laurie attempts to cut her wrists when she thinks there is no hope of rescue before she drowns. She's unable to go through with it.]]
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* OutrunTheFireball: Averted, as the film goes for suspense far more than for action sequences.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As stated above, a lot of the film was shot on a real (scrap) ocean liner. Many of the interior shots are on sets or in miniatures, but you'd never know from the sheer amount of water and number of explosions aboard the doomed vessel.
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* JustHereForGodzilla: The ''real'' sinking ship was the primary novelty here, far more than the relatively unknown actors and their fates.
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* JustHereForGodzill: The ''real'' sinking ship was the primary novelty here, far more than the relatively unknown actors and their fates.
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* JustHereForGodzill: JustHereForGodzilla: The ''real'' sinking ship was the primary novelty here, far more than the relatively unknown actors and their fates.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Unlike modern disaster epics, this is mostly averted; the only really ''unexpected'' death in the entire movie is [[spoiler:the Captain, crushed by a falling funnel.]]
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* HSQ: Before James Cameron's Film/Titanic1997, this probably had the highest of any shipboard disaster movie. The film crew sank a ''real'' cruise liner to give it maximum realism and it ''shows.''
* IgnoredExpert: Another aversion from later disaster movies. The captain is guilty of over-caution at times, but he does order the evacuation in time to save the passengers and (most) of the crew.
* IgnoredExpert: Another aversion from later disaster movies. The captain is guilty of over-caution at times, but he does order the evacuation in time to save the passengers and (most) of the crew.
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* JustHereForGodzill: The ''real'' sinking ship was the primary novelty here, far more than the relatively unknown actors and their fates.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Played straight with the crew, but the civilian characters number only three (allowing them to have an entire subplot to themselves).
* NoAntagonist: Nobody is behaving villainously; the ship they are on is simply ''old'' and thus at much higher risk for critical failures.
* PrimalFear: Laurie, as the water begins to rise around her, faces drowning slowly and alone.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Captain, quite unlike many other shipboard examples of this trope. He is slow to react to the unfolding disaster, but he listens to his crew and when it becomes obvious the ship is doomed, orders everyone to evacuate. Nearly all of them make it off the boat safely. [[spoiler:But not him.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Played straight with the crew, but the civilian characters number only three (allowing them to have an entire subplot to themselves).
* NoAntagonist: Nobody is behaving villainously; the ship they are on is simply ''old'' and thus at much higher risk for critical failures.
* PrimalFear: Laurie, as the water begins to rise around her, faces drowning slowly and alone.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Captain, quite unlike many other shipboard examples of this trope. He is slow to react to the unfolding disaster, but he listens to his crew and when it becomes obvious the ship is doomed, orders everyone to evacuate. Nearly all of them make it off the boat safely. [[spoiler:But not him.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: The Chief Engineer decides, with steam pouring out a dozen different cracks in the stricken boiler, to start whacking the stuck safety value atop it to try and open it. [[spoiler:He blows himself to LudicrousGibs instead.]]
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* UrExample: The first serious disaster epic, and as such, it does a ''lot'' of things differently than later examples by Creator/IrwinAllen, Creator/JerryBruckheimer, or Creator/MichaelBay.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As stated above, a lot of the film was shot on a real (scrap) ocean liner. Many of the interior shots are on sets or in miniatures, but you'd never know from the sheer amount of water and number of explosions aboard the doomed vessel.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As stated above, a lot of the film was shot on a real (scrap) ocean liner. Many of the interior shots are on sets or in miniatures, but you'd never know from the sheer amount of water and number of explosions aboard the doomed vessel.
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* SinkingShipScenario'': The film centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room.
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* SinkingShipScenario'': SinkingShipScenario: The film centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room.
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* SinkingShipScenario'': The film centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room.
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The SS ''Claridon'' is an old ship that is scheduled to be scrapped after just a few more voyages. Cliff (Stack) and Laurie Henderson (Malone), alongside their daughter, Jill (Tammy Marihugh), are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished, but not before a boiler fuel supply valve is fused open. Before the Chief Engineer can manually open a steam relief valve, a huge explosion rips through the boiler room and the many decks situated above it, killing him and some of the passengers and trapping Laurie under a steel beam in their state room, in addition to opening a huge hole in the side of the ship. From then on, it's up to her husband and a crewman to cut her free before the ship goes under.
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The SS ''Claridon'' ''Claridon''[[note]]Played by the The SS ''Île de France''[[/note]] is an old ship that is scheduled to be scrapped after just a few more voyages. Cliff (Stack) and Laurie Henderson (Malone), alongside their daughter, Jill (Tammy Marihugh), are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished, but not before a boiler fuel supply valve is fused open. Before the Chief Engineer can manually open a steam relief valve, a huge explosion rips through the boiler room and the many decks situated above it, killing him and some of the passengers and trapping Laurie under a steel beam in their state room, in addition to opening a huge hole in the side of the ship. From then on, it's up to her husband and a crewman to cut her free before the ship goes under.
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* TrashTheSet: The reason the movie has such realistic effects of the cruise ship sinking is simple: the producers ''really did'' sink a ship.
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* TrashTheSet: The reason the movie has such realistic effects of the cruise ship sinking is simple: the producers ''really did'' sink a ship. ship, the The SS ''Île de France''
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''The Last Voyage'' is a 1960 Metrocolor American disaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Robert Stack, Creator/DorothyMalone, Creator/GeorgeSanders and Edmond O'Brien.
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''The Last Voyage'' is a 1960 Metrocolor American disaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Robert Stack, Creator/RobertStack, Creator/DorothyMalone, Creator/GeorgeSanders and Edmond O'Brien.
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''The Last Voyage'' is a 1960 Metrocolor American disaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Robert Stack, Creator/DorothyMalone, Creator/GeorgeSanders and Edmond O'Brien.
The SS ''Claridon'' is an old ship that is scheduled to be scrapped after just a few more voyages. Cliff (Stack) and Laurie Henderson (Malone), alongside their daughter, Jill (Tammy Marihugh), are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished, but not before a boiler fuel supply valve is fused open. Before the Chief Engineer can manually open a steam relief valve, a huge explosion rips through the boiler room and the many decks situated above it, killing him and some of the passengers and trapping Laurie under a steel beam in their state room, in addition to opening a huge hole in the side of the ship. From then on, it's up to her husband and a crewman to cut her free before the ship goes under.
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!!This film features examples of:
* FightToSurvive: The SS ''Claridon'' suffers a boiler explosion that damages the ship so much that it begins to sink. One passenger is trapped in her cabin by a falling beam and her husband and a crewman must cut her free before the ship goes under.
* TheLastTitle: ''The '''Last''' Voyage''.
* TrashTheSet: The reason the movie has such realistic effects of the cruise ship sinking is simple: the producers ''really did'' sink a ship.
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''The Last Voyage'' is a 1960 Metrocolor American disaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Robert Stack, Creator/DorothyMalone, Creator/GeorgeSanders and Edmond O'Brien.
The SS ''Claridon'' is an old ship that is scheduled to be scrapped after just a few more voyages. Cliff (Stack) and Laurie Henderson (Malone), alongside their daughter, Jill (Tammy Marihugh), are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished, but not before a boiler fuel supply valve is fused open. Before the Chief Engineer can manually open a steam relief valve, a huge explosion rips through the boiler room and the many decks situated above it, killing him and some of the passengers and trapping Laurie under a steel beam in their state room, in addition to opening a huge hole in the side of the ship. From then on, it's up to her husband and a crewman to cut her free before the ship goes under.
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!!This film features examples of:
* FightToSurvive: The SS ''Claridon'' suffers a boiler explosion that damages the ship so much that it begins to sink. One passenger is trapped in her cabin by a falling beam and her husband and a crewman must cut her free before the ship goes under.
* TheLastTitle: ''The '''Last''' Voyage''.
* TrashTheSet: The reason the movie has such realistic effects of the cruise ship sinking is simple: the producers ''really did'' sink a ship.
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