Thank you for highlighting this "forgotten" film. It wasn't very good but deserves to be remembered, and preserved, in the Allen legacy, after all he entertained millions with his bigger than life disaster epics.
Never Heard of it. Must not have advertised much. Was surprised to hear The Swarm bombed. That movie had enormous amounts of Buzz before it came out. (Oh yeah, pun intended but still true.)
after the swarm People were losing their appetite for disaster movies - from the very early 70s onwards there had been a whole string of disa disaster movies ... ans the formats were all beginning to get very much alike ...
I saw this movie many many times as a child. Funny enough I rented it from Prime during my recent Christmas vacation. It's doesn't hold up as well as I remember it, but it's still entertaining.
I love this film. The message I get from it is this: Damn the torpedoes FULL SPEED AHEAD! What that means is basically "We built this luxury hotel near an active volcano because we know people will pay us WHATEVER we want to stay here" "There's no way that volcano will erupt! We put too much $$ into this paradise to just up and leave"
I agree the special effects didnt have the high quality standard like the towering inferno but as a huge William Holden fan I still watched it, I have placed your review on my youtube channel in the playlist movie reviews of William Holden
It was literally impossible to put that book down. Then there were the lawsuits about putting glue on the cover of books and that marketing technique was made illegal. Sad really.
I enjoyed this movie. I didn't even watch it all I listened to the whole movie and everything about it was great. I'm from the 80s so I enjoy anything from that time period
Can you also do a piece about Fire! , Flood! , The night the bridge fell down ( all produced also by Irwin Allen) and " City on Fire ( not by Irwin Allen)
Irwins darkest period was his Warner years. He was a much better producer than he was a Director. P.S. Are they still stuck on that bridge over the lava?
At 3:43 that's Eddie Albert, not Edward Albert. I saw that movie in a theater. The bridge-crossing sequence with Burgess Meredith and his balancing pole is just interminable. Almost the entire cast is in "at least I'm getting paid for this" mode. The volcano keeps spitting well-aimed fireballs at the hotel, and It's hard to decide whether it's a disaster movie or a monster movie with the volcano as the monster. That concept was redone in "Dante's Peak" (1997). It was also known as "When the Audience Ran Out," and/or "The Blubbering Inferno"; and I'm pretty sure MAD Magazine did a parody of it, but I couldn't find it on line.
I saw this at the cinema when it came out in NZ ... after the hotel blew up is was so boring after that ... I remember from about then on most people in the cinema just talked all the way through it till the end
This movie bombed because of the terrible SFX, not so much due to the story or cast. I remember giving this a huge swerve when it came out due to the awful movie clips showing 1960s level SFX. It seemed like a huge step backwards, especially when you consider Alien, Star Trek the Movie, Close Encounters, Star Wars had all preceded it. Audiences wanted to see something they hadn't seen before, but this just looked cheap and shoddy. As for Swarm, that was dented by both The Killer Bees, a 1974 TV movie directed by Curtis Harrington and the much superior The Savage Bees (1976) another TV movie. By the time Swarm was released in 1978, everyone had already seen what killer bees could do and there was no longer any appetite for it.
Good video Johnny Baak, really enjoying all these Irwin Allen movie reviews. This one I never saw, I really hate hearing when you can't get the full movie on DVD, why must movie studios be so stingy with what they release? I do have to agree, the special effects look pretty bad considering this is 1980, yikes, he even had a big budget.
The disaster film era began with Airport, grew with The Poseidon Adventure, peaked with The Towering Inferno, tapered off with Earthquake, tanked with The Swarm, and the died with When Time Ran Out. The massive success of Airplane! in 1980 made it clear that the genre, now ripe for pure parody, was over. My father's movie theatre - where I practically lived as a kid - played every one of these pictures, and I saw them all as soon as they came out. Frankly, it was past time. The pictures were, by their nature, rather serious and even cynical. When Star Wars came out in 1977, people were ready for pure escapism. It should have been easy to see that the all-star cast disaster tropes had become tired and old-fashioned. But Irwin Allan persisted, and each successive picture after Star Wars was greeted with only greater failure. Some of these films, such as Airport and Inferno, as still great watches today. The Swarm is so bad it's hilarious. But When Time Ran Out is a painful slog, it's melodrama excruciating to see such stars go through, and it special effects more suitable for made-for-tv films from a decade earlier. It's badness is only rivaled by Meteor, and in practically every respect.
It must have been really bad because I've never heard of it until now. Also what's sad is William Holden drinking got the best of him they said he was loaded when he slipped fell and busted his head which killed him.
I've read many books and done extensive study on the eruption of Mount Pelee, so it was disappointing to find out this movie had nothing to do with that eruption. The true story of the Mount Pelee was more exciting than "that volcano movie".
Saw it at the skyline Drive at panorama, 1980 as a double feature with the towering inferno. ever heard of the song lava? The lyrics always remind me of the lava bomb scene, because that’s what happens! My love's a lava bomb Knock you in the head Knock you in the head Kick you in the lava bed 🤣🤣
The film lost me when they lowered a cage into the crater (it's a volcano... NOT a shark!) & the winch breaks, so Alex Karras brings it up by hand! All I could think at the time was 'if you want me to accept a silly plot, don't insult my intelligence in the 1st reel! And... if there is ONE film in the history of Cinema that did not call for a sequel, it's 'The Poseidon Adventure'!!! Even Telly Savalas couldn't save that sinking ship!
I never saw the movie but there was a time when it seemed to be previewed on TV every night. It immediately struck me as a turkey. I thought it was never released. Master of Disaster? More like Sclockmeister.
this was one of thise I seen it once no need to see it agin.. all i remeber is climbing on a edge of a mountin against cheezy red screen volcano in the background. newman should have sued to have it banned
It was a sort of combination of "The Devil At Four O'Clock" and "The Towering Inferno" set to dry land. How could so many big name stars be dragooned into something like this? It is so bad that it is entertaining but do not expect too much new. I guess the disaster cycle was getting worn out by this time.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV Am glad he dismissed this nonsense... and stood by some classic stuff that was getting routed out the office (Alien, Blade Runner...)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, if I have it didn’t make an impression, but as ever I enjoyed your video! It surely can’t be any worse than those two Volcano movies in the 90s, both of which I thought were so darned cheesy as to be ludicrous, although I recall one had pretty great effects.
2019's Chinese pseudo-remake "Skyfire" did the story far greater justice than this formulaic Allen schlock did. "Towering Inferno", "Poseidon Adventure" and "When Time Ran Out" beg the question...how many times did Allen think people would pay to watch the same movie over and over and over again?
This movie has many faults. It's unintentionally campy which makes it an entertaining watch if you're into a bit of OTT silliness. The infamous bridge over the molten lava scene is so ridiculous but is also a lot of fun.
3:42 Ehhhh...not THAT Edward Albert. 4:35 THAT Edward Albert, behind Holden and Bisset. The story I've heard is that Warners, in producing the shortened cut, _destroyed_ the removed footage, and it only exists now--as far as anyone knows--in the 4:3 aspect ratio for old TVs. Maybe some day the footage will be found and recovered; until then, the "Earth's Final Fury" version would make a good extra on a Blu-ray release. EDIT: It seems my wish has been granted!! Shout Factory's _Irwin Allen: Master of Disaster_ Blu-Ray set reportedly includes the DVD cut in Hi-Def and the expanded cut in Standard Definition.
I've always enjoyed his movies,🎬🏢🔥 🚢🏊🌊 even though some of them were somewhat a little on the recatta side.😂 They don't make🎭 movies like that any more.
I love these movies from this time period. Wish Netflix would have some of these.
One of my earliest memories as a child was the sight of Pat Morita falling into a volcano. It haunted me for years.
I feel like I might have seen this on tv when I was a child, but until I saw this, I’d forgotten about it completely.
Thanks for the upload dude.
Thank you for this. I loved this movie as a kid, such good memories.
Thank you for highlighting this "forgotten" film. It wasn't very good but deserves to be remembered, and preserved, in the Allen legacy, after all he entertained millions with his bigger than life disaster epics.
James Franciscus also starred, along with Henry Fonda and Ava Garner, in the Canadian disaster film "City on Fire" (1979) by Alvin Rakof.
I remember this as When I Ran Out of the Theatre.
I recall seeing this movie at the cinema when it came out. To this very day, I thoroughly enjoy watching it.
Never Heard of it. Must not have advertised much. Was surprised to hear The Swarm bombed. That movie had enormous amounts of Buzz before it came out. (Oh yeah, pun intended but still true.)
See it for Pat Morita's blue screen death and the and the final scream that breaks a mirror
All those disaster movies were basically on tv, every year! I enjoyed the disaster movie every time they were on tv!
Yeah ...I'm 48 and I've never even heard of this
It wasn't bad for a "bee" movie.:-D
after the swarm People were losing their appetite for disaster movies - from the very early 70s onwards there had been a whole string of disa
disaster movies ... ans the formats were all beginning to get very much alike ...
I saw this movie many many times as a child. Funny enough I rented it from Prime during my recent Christmas vacation. It's doesn't hold up as well as I remember it, but it's still entertaining.
Exactly it's not perfect but still great. Like your favourite tv show but not your favourite episode
there's one Irwan Allen disaster film you still haven't done yet, The Poseidon adventure
I love this film. The message I get from it is this: Damn the torpedoes FULL SPEED AHEAD!
What that means is basically "We built this luxury hotel near an active volcano because we know people will pay us WHATEVER we want to stay here" "There's no way that volcano will erupt! We put too much $$ into this paradise to just up and leave"
Saw This Years Ago!! I've Been A Fan Of William Holden & Eddie Albert For Years!!
Wasn't this Mr. Holden's last Flic???
@@thrashpondopons2776 No. He did one more movie "S.O.B" which came out the following year.
I used to watch this all the time on tv as a kid. I loved it. My favorite scene was when Pat Morita ate it on the bridge.
I agree the special effects didnt have the high quality standard like the towering inferno but as a huge William Holden fan I still watched it, I have placed your review on my youtube channel in the playlist movie reviews of William Holden
It was literally impossible to put that book down. Then there were the lawsuits about putting glue on the cover of books and that marketing technique was made illegal. Sad really.
Ha ha ha ha! That just made my day! ;)
I can picture when suvivors finished their last scene they kept walking to their flights home
I think I caught the end of it on TV in the late 80's - early 90's.
I enjoyed this movie. I didn't even watch it all I listened to the whole movie and everything about it was great. I'm from the 80s so I enjoy anything from that time period
Can you also do a piece about Fire! , Flood! , The night the bridge fell down ( all produced also by Irwin Allen) and " City on Fire ( not by Irwin Allen)
Irwins darkest period was his Warner years. He was a much better producer than he was a Director. P.S. Are they still stuck on that bridge over the lava?
Like A Bridge Over Bubbled Lava...
I will lay me down
If its an Irwan Allen production then thats good enouth for me, Love em.
Marooned did not have Paul Newman. It was Gregory Peck, Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, and David Jansen alongside Fransiscus
Just saying
I always liked this film
At 3:43 that's Eddie Albert, not Edward Albert.
I saw that movie in a theater. The bridge-crossing sequence with Burgess Meredith and his balancing pole is just interminable. Almost the entire cast is in "at least I'm getting paid for this" mode. The volcano keeps spitting well-aimed fireballs at the hotel, and It's hard to decide whether it's a disaster movie or a monster movie with the volcano as the monster. That concept was redone in "Dante's Peak" (1997).
It was also known as "When the Audience Ran Out," and/or "The Blubbering Inferno"; and I'm pretty sure MAD Magazine did a parody of it, but I couldn't find it on line.
Nice one thank you 😃
Love the UFO score at the end titles!
I saw this at the cinema when it came out in NZ ... after the hotel blew up is was so boring after that ... I remember from about then on most people in the cinema just talked all the way through it till the end
you should check out the 1983 tv movie . "Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land ". It's is the first wave of disaster movies, last dying breath .
Great FX by John Dykstra's company Apogee.
Enjoyed this video. :)
Thank you for this.
The towering inferno sequel happened 2001 9-11
This movie bombed because of the terrible SFX, not so much due to the story or cast. I remember giving this a huge swerve when it came out due to the awful movie clips showing 1960s level SFX. It seemed like a huge step backwards, especially when you consider Alien, Star Trek the Movie, Close Encounters, Star Wars had all preceded it. Audiences wanted to see something they hadn't seen before, but this just looked cheap and shoddy. As for Swarm, that was dented by both The Killer Bees, a 1974 TV movie directed by Curtis Harrington and the much superior The Savage Bees (1976) another TV movie. By the time Swarm was released in 1978, everyone had already seen what killer bees could do and there was no longer any appetite for it.
It's not bad as people say it is in my opinion.
Good video Johnny Baak, really enjoying all these Irwin Allen movie reviews. This one I never saw, I really hate hearing when you can't get the full movie on DVD, why must movie studios be so stingy with what they release? I do have to agree, the special effects look pretty bad considering this is 1980, yikes, he even had a big budget.
Today I watched this movie for fisrt time and I was surprised of Paul Newman, he didn't act here! I liked the movie.
I do wonder if there's anyway of seeing the extended version.......
The disaster film era began with Airport, grew with The Poseidon Adventure, peaked with The Towering Inferno, tapered off with Earthquake, tanked with The Swarm, and the died with When Time Ran Out. The massive success of Airplane! in 1980 made it clear that the genre, now ripe for pure parody, was over. My father's movie theatre - where I practically lived as a kid - played every one of these pictures, and I saw them all as soon as they came out. Frankly, it was past time. The pictures were, by their nature, rather serious and even cynical. When Star Wars came out in 1977, people were ready for pure escapism. It should have been easy to see that the all-star cast disaster tropes had become tired and old-fashioned. But Irwin Allan persisted, and each successive picture after Star Wars was greeted with only greater failure. Some of these films, such as Airport and Inferno, as still great watches today. The Swarm is so bad it's hilarious. But When Time Ran Out is a painful slog, it's melodrama excruciating to see such stars go through, and it special effects more suitable for made-for-tv films from a decade earlier. It's badness is only rivaled by Meteor, and in practically every respect.
And today I’m watching live streams of volcanoes exploding on your tube! The film was way ahead of its time! 🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍
It must have been really bad because I've never heard of it until now. Also what's sad is William Holden drinking got the best of him they said he was loaded when he slipped fell and busted his head which killed him.
I believe this was his last film!
Same here. Never even seen the TV version.
Yeah, that was a sad note. If I remember the times, rehab wasn't really a thing yet. Betty Ford was a big force in reducing the stigma.
I liked the movie myself.
Longer cut is supposed to be better although I've never seen it just a theatrical version I've seen.
thanks for that, Thomas. now i need to check out that extended version !
Cool video I don't remember this movie at all.
This movie plus The Swarm may have been "Disasters" at the box office but there both epics & Irwan Allen produtions so thats good enouth for me.
Paul Newman wasn't in Marooned with James Franciscus.... Gene Hackman and Gregory Peck were.
I've read many books and done extensive study on the eruption of Mount Pelee, so it was disappointing to find out this movie had nothing to do with that eruption. The true story of the Mount Pelee was more exciting than "that volcano movie".
Saw it at the skyline Drive at panorama, 1980 as a double feature with the towering inferno. ever heard of the song lava?
The lyrics always remind me of the lava bomb scene, because that’s what happens!
My love's a lava bomb
Knock you in the head
Knock you in the head
Kick you in the lava bed
🤣🤣
If the movie had been released in 1976, it would have been successful. But the reason this and other disaster movies failed has a name: "Star Wars."
And the special effects sucked
The film lost me when they lowered a cage into the crater (it's a volcano... NOT a shark!) & the winch breaks, so Alex Karras brings it up by hand! All I could think at the time was 'if you want me to accept a silly plot, don't insult my intelligence in the 1st reel!
And... if there is ONE film in the history of Cinema that did not call for a sequel, it's 'The Poseidon Adventure'!!! Even Telly Savalas couldn't save that sinking ship!
The Swarm and When Time Ran Out, were both great movies!
I think the message this movie was trying to make was , Time is running out for Humanity . Hes not wrong !
I never saw the movie but there was a time when it seemed to be previewed on TV every night. It immediately struck me as a turkey. I thought it was never released. Master of Disaster? More like Sclockmeister.
this was one of thise I seen it once no need to see it agin.. all i remeber is climbing on a edge of a mountin against cheezy red screen volcano in the background. newman should have sued to have it banned
It was a sort of combination of "The Devil At Four O'Clock" and "The Towering Inferno" set to dry land. How could so many big name stars be dragooned into something like this? It is so bad that it is entertaining but do not expect too much new. I guess the disaster cycle was getting worn out by this time.
Alan was a sharp Ladd
Except in choosing his women. But hey, The Kid Stays in the Picture.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV Am glad he dismissed this nonsense... and stood by some classic stuff that was getting routed out the office (Alien, Blade Runner...)
@@blacktoothfox677 and Looker
Alan Ladd backed Star Wars to the hilt when the other studio execs wanted to cancel it.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, if I have it didn’t make an impression, but as ever I enjoyed your video! It surely can’t be any worse than those two Volcano movies in the 90s, both of which I thought were so darned cheesy as to be ludicrous, although I recall one had pretty great effects.
2019's Chinese pseudo-remake "Skyfire" did the story far greater justice than this formulaic Allen schlock did.
"Towering Inferno", "Poseidon Adventure" and "When Time Ran Out" beg the question...how many times did Allen think people would pay to watch the same movie over and over and over again?
I utterly can't believe how they milked Jacqueline Bisset's assets. Well, no since in crying over spilled milk.
Honestly, I saw the poster and thought it was Adrienne Barbeau. (However the heck her name's spelled.)
wrong picture of edward albert
This movie has many faults. It's unintentionally campy which makes it an entertaining watch if you're into a bit of OTT silliness. The infamous bridge over the molten lava scene is so ridiculous but is also a lot of fun.
wrong Eddie Albert, you want the son
I kinda/ sorta like this movie. The absolute end of the “ disaster” movie era. Yes indeed really bad SFX.
*ALAN LADD JR*
3:42 Ehhhh...not THAT Edward Albert.
4:35 THAT Edward Albert, behind Holden and Bisset.
The story I've heard is that Warners, in producing the shortened cut, _destroyed_ the removed footage, and it only exists now--as far as anyone knows--in the 4:3 aspect ratio for old TVs. Maybe some day the footage will be found and recovered; until then, the "Earth's Final Fury" version would make a good extra on a Blu-ray release. EDIT: It seems my wish has been granted!! Shout Factory's _Irwin Allen: Master of Disaster_ Blu-Ray set reportedly includes the DVD cut in Hi-Def and the expanded cut in Standard Definition.
Watched it in the theater. Fun movie, sucky title.
I've always enjoyed his movies,🎬🏢🔥 🚢🏊🌊
even though some of them were somewhat a little on the recatta side.😂
They don't make🎭
movies like that any more.
Paul Newman did not star in MAROONED.
I watched this movie, it looked like a cheap TV movie, even back in the '80s.
I appreciate your "Everything You Need To Know" videos, but can you get someone else to narrate?
This is one bad film the stuff you watch at 3 am when you cant sleep