The Last Voyage

Year:

1960

Duration:

91 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Andrew L. Stone

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1960-02-19

Filming Locations: Santa Monica Bay, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Tammy Marihugh

Robert Stack

Cliff Henderson

Dorothy Malone

Laurie Henderson

George Sanders

Captain Robert Adams

Edmond O'Brien

Second Engineer Walsh

Woody Strode

Hank Lawson

Jack Kruschen

Chief Engineer Pringle

Joel Marston

Third Officer Ragland

George Furness

Third Officer Osborne

Richard Norris

3rd Engineer Cole

Marshall Kent

Quartermaster

Andrew Hughes

Radio Operator

Robert Martin

2nd Mate Mace

Bill Wilson

Youth

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Trivia

The film features three actors who won Academy Awards for supporting roles: George Sanders for All About Eve (1950), Edmond O'Brien for The Barefoot Contessa (1954), and Dorothy Malone for Written on the Wind (1956).

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According to maritime historian William J. Miller, the famed French Line was so horrified that their former flagship would be used in such a way that they demanded that the Ile de France's name be removed from her bow and that in no way would any references be made to them.

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The ship used by the filmmakers was the SS Ile de France, the famous French liner which cruised the Atlantic from 1926 to 1959. She was leased for $4,000 a day. After shooting completed, she was re-floated (having been partially sunk for the film) and was towed to the scrap yard. She has a more heroic place in history, however. It was her that played a major role in the rescue of the passengers from the Italian liner Andrea Doria in 1956, after the latter ship collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm and sank off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was the first ship to arrive at the scene of the collision and immediately began taking aboard the Andrea Doria's passengers.

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Goofs

When Cliff is saving his daughter, he uses a board to help her across. When first shown, it looks brand new, and when they are going across it, it's clearly a different, more rotten looking one. It changes from scene to scene.

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In the final shots of the ship sinking, the nearby coastline can be seen reflected in its outside windows.

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In the final scene of the ship sinking as the characters leave it, a crew member in full scuba gear can be seen.

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Quotes

Cliff Henderson: This is one guy I'm gonna help aboard personally!

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Second Engineer Walsh: You know how they pick the captains for these luxury jobs. They have to pass a lot of tests. Sure, he's got to pass the dancing test, the personality test, know how to calm the passengers, make with the jokes. That's what counts.

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Second Engineer Walsh: Let's get while the getting's good!

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Faq

Q

Is it true that they destroyed a real ship in order to film this movie?

A

Yes. An aging ship, the French luxury liner SS Ile de France, had been sold to a Japanese scrapyard and was rented (for $1.5 million) for the filming of the movie. The ship was towed to a shallow spot in the Sea of Japan, where parts of the movie were filmed. The ship's interior was exploded as seen in the movie, and the ship itself was flooded so that it would sink lower in the water. However, the ship never sank completely, because it was already resting on the sea bottom. Ironically, the Ile de France was among the ships who came to the aid of the Andrea Doria and picked up hundreds of its survivors.

Q

A Note Regarding Spoilers

A

The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

Q

How closely does the movie follow the events on the 'Andrea Doria'?

A

The basic premise -- that of a woman trapped in the cabin of a sinking ship while her husband races to find a tool to release her -- is intact, however the circumstances have been altered, which is what makes the movie 'based on' rather than 'the story of'' the Andrea Doria. For example, the name of the ship in the movie is the SS Claridon. The Claridon sinks because of an explosion in the boiler room, whereas the Andrea Doria was rammed by another ship. The Claridon sinks in one hour; the Andrea Doria stayed afloat for 11 hours. The 'tool' in this movie is an acetylene torch; it was a jack in the Andrea Doria. The Claridon goes down 'in the middle of the ocean' on its way to Japan; the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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