The Poseidon Adventure(1972) - EndingTitle Music

[JP5466]

This music is great and should have been used more in the film.

If you watch the first season of "Lost in Space" you will hear lots of similarities.

[Numinous20111]

Always loved this Williams score. It really expresses the adversity the characters face and the profound effects their ordeal have on them. John Barry's 'The Black Hole' is just a little reminiscent of this score.

[kirkconway]

Incredible moving theme music to a great film that will never be repaeated again.

showing the rudder and propeller's,

the chopper lift's off the stricken liner to saftey.

the closing credit's come on in that vibrant blue screen and then you sit there in your seat afterward trying to take it all in after the film.

I was 12 yrs old and speechless.

[j0287garcia]

This is probably my favorite music score by John Williams. He should have won the oscar for this. I think it went to a charlie chaplin movie score from years earlier.

Thanks you ostmusicmix. You have the best postings. jg

[etrax2000]

who can't see borgnines tear stained face ??

[MCP2012]

Beyond EPIC...COSMIC...

[DrGlitterhouse]

For some reason, this piece reminds me of the music from You Only Live Twice where SPECTRE's satellite is snatching up the space capsules.

[aaburjaile]

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

[marlene4241]

This movie was based on a true account. The story writer was a stewart on the Queen Mary when she was bringing 16,000 US Troops home after WWII, when she was struck by a rogue wave ... it layed her almost flat on her Starboard side ... she slowly recovered and made it safe to port.

[MiloDC]

Sucks. His Towering Inferno main title is infinitely superior to this. Look for it on YouTube and be amazed.

[FishfilmInc]

@MiloDC This is an entirely different type of disaster film (besides this cue would be better compared to "An Architects Dream") one that is not so "happy", one that with an impending sense of doom.

[pladahitz]

JUST BEAUTIFUL MUSIC!

[TitanicExpert]

I've got this song stuck in my head and it won't leave.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Evevrytime I see the ship, I see RMS Queen Mary, today's her birthday by the way, because that was Poseidon original name.

[gratecourt]

Thanks for posting.  A great theme and so under-used in the film.

[dramamajor1985]

1:50 BEST PART EVER!

[aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

best disaster movie evar!

[kangaroosbraun]

a classic movie and score, beast the remake by a tidal wave

[Jacktwo04]

I love this movie.

[boriset]

Sbinsca first of all I`m sorry for my english. I`m a oceanographer from Argentina and I want to tell you tha basically a Tsunami is bad called Tidal wave. It is truth that both are two things completly diferents in their original causes but in this film the wave is a Tsunami because the captain heard the Atenas seismological station report informing about a southmarine landslide and erthquake typical Tsunami situation. The tidal wave has to do with the moon attraction. Good bye friend.

[wattlesong]

@boriset

Thank you for your interesting information, l didn't know that. The ocean off Argentina would be a very interesting area of study. Many are with Argentina regarding the Islas Malvinas.

[NightoftheShape3]

Nice music...but EL CRAPPO sound quality.

[FishfilmInc]

@NightoftheShape3 because this film was made in 1972, and the master tapes were lost.

[calimar28]

The ship was turned upside down thanks to the owner, who wouldnt allow the captain to take on any ballast...therefore, the ship was top heavy when the tidal wave hit. by the time the captain knew abou the tidal wave after seeing it on his radar, it was much too late to take on any ballast.

[overner2001]

I have been told this ship was not sunk by a tsunami. I said it was a tsunami because I could not spell Tribal wade.. which I thought was what a tsunami was: a tribal wade triggered by an underwater earthquake...

[jeffchandler1962]

the music to the film is a masterpiece, John Williams is a brillant composer: Towering Inferno, The Cowboys, etc,

the music is as special as the film, thank you for posting it

[aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

you forgot star wars

[BourneArgonaut]

@jeffchandler1962  Exactly!!

[neowarrior1]

has anyone been able to find deleted scenes to this film by any chance?

[gistvisions]

Try getting special edition of Poseidon Adventure. There's bound to be some goodies on there.

[dellownerman]

A tsunami is about to capsize the ship and drown all of us surely you can't be serious." I am serious and don't call me Sherley."

[overner2001]

curious to see Leslie Neilson not cracking funnies in this one. He played the captain who spots the tsunami that sinks his boat. Wonder how Frank Drebin would have re"acted"?

[sbinsdca]

It was a tidal wave... not a tsunami :)

[Mrginguel]

una hermosa pelicula ,recuerdo que me angustiaba ver como aquellos pobres tripulantes trataban de salir ala superficie y sobre todo la muerte del guia principal(el protagonista principal).........la musica de john w, es magnifica y cada sonido del pentagrama describe musicalmente la angustia de la aventura

[hollbri]

i think john williams great score sounds a little bit like bernhard herrmann-maybe an influence

[Dragan3rd]

This sounds like a lost song from Star Wars or something...

[superjoel01]

i agree just with a hint of indiana jones.

[VirgilB01]

Or a "Lost in Space" episode with the chariot adventure.

[MGR1900]

Since it was John Williams who wrote the score, that makes sense.

[superbruce]

@Dragan3rd ..couldn't have beeen -it was written/produced several years before ' Star Wars'....

[yes4albert]

Rarely do soundtracks match a film's action as well as this one. It gives me chills, particularly the ending credit music. Thank you. Hope to get a copy of the soundtrack someday.

[rickram1961]

Poseidon Adventure had one heck of a soundtrack. This I think was one of the best scores written by John Williams.

[gistvisions]

Wish the soundtrack wasn't so damn hard to find. :[

[pladahitz2]

cannot find the opening theme anywhere any ideas...great music and thank you for posting....

[MarianaWeir]

Amazing music! Always will be one of the greatest themes Williams ever created! (And the movie ain't bad either!)

[NIGHTWHMAN]

I like how you put it together, great job

[clyde7995]

Thanks, I saw the Poseidon Adventure in the movies in 1974 I was 11 years old. When it was broadcast on tv in Oct. 1974 for the 1st time, I recorded it with my tape recorder so that I could listen to it all the time. 34 years later, I can still recite the entire movie.

[pinkpoodle1963]

We're the same age, clyde! :)

This really was an amazing movie! Great music that fits so well.

[JP5466]

John Williams is a genius. Perfect score!

[mrslinarcos]

Nice video.....I'll never forget the first time I had seen this trailer. :)