The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, & Shelley Winters (Replay 2019 ep)

Book Vs. Movie: "The Poseidon Adventure" (1971)<br />The differences between the super gross book and the entertaining movie (We are not going to hide our bias here!)<br /><br />At Book Vs. Movie, whenever people say, "Duh--the book is always better than the movie!" the Margos would say, "yeah--have you ever read <i>Jaws</i>?" Well, now we have another book-to-movie adaptation that features a horrible, racist, sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic novel that became a fun hit film. <br /><br />Sportswriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gallico" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Paul Gallico</a> helped many stories become excellent films, including Pride of the Yankees, The Snow Goose, and the musical stage Carnival! He wrote over 40 books, numerous short stories, and dozens of T.V. and movie scripts. He began his career working for the New York Daily News sports desk and later became a prolific travel writer spending 10,000 miles on the road in the U.S. for Reader's Digest. <br /><br />In 1969, he published The Poseiden Adventure to little fanfare. The tale of a wayward ship sunk while traveling to Africa features some of the most loathsome characters we have ever had the displeasure of reading. (The audiobook featuring narration by actor <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048414/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dylan Baker</a> makes it slightly more palatable.)<br /><br />Trigger warning: This story features a character being raped who then comforts her attacker and wishes she was pregnant by him. (Seriously!) <br /><br />The movie by producer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Allen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Irwin Allen</a> and director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Neame" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ronald Neame</a> became an instant classic which began a slate of many disaster films in the 1970s. It would become the highest-grossing film of 1973, grossing over $125 million worldwide. It won an Academy Award for best spe