What is your favorite TV or movie with a cruise/steam ship

[dvdfreakmc]

Mine is an original Twilight Zone episode "Passage of the Lady Anne". A younger couple that is busy with their lives and is losing the spark of their relationship, decides to take their time and book on a ship, instead of flying. Once on board, they realize that they are not quite in the same age range as the rest of the passengers and crew, which leads to some mystery about what is going to happen on the voyage -- however, through their shipmates, they learn more about each other as each day passes.

[Druke I]

Ship is only in for a couple of minutes, getting sunk trying to leave Singapore, early days of WW2.

 

A real tear-jerker, with Richard Burton and Joan Collins, "Sea Wife".

[Old As Dirt Mom]

Just recently saw a very unusual movie called "The Legend of 1900", directed by Italian Giuseppe Tornatore. The Italian title of the movie is "La Leggenda del Pianista sull'oceano ( The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean). It's about a baby boy who is discovered in a box on top of a piano on an ocean liner in the year 1900 and raised onboard by a member of the engine crew. He spends his entire life on this ship, and has a brilliant gift for piano playing. Here's a link to a complete plot summary of the movie.

 

My 17-year-old daughter and I cried buckets watching this movie, but my husband got up in disgust about half way through.:rolleyes:

[Love Cruises]

For me:

(#1) Definitely, the oldie -"AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER" with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.

(#2) Irwin Allen's disaster movie - "THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" from the 1970s.

(#3) The very funny "OUT TO SEA" with Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau [i believe it was on the old msWESTERDAM].

(#4) TITANTIC with Leonardo DeCaprio

(#5) "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" from the 1950s.

[DisneyJen]

Mine is "Speed 2" ... love the scene of the Seabourn Legend ramming into the pier in St. Martin:p

[cruznon]

My favorite is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Marilyn Monroe's comments as she enters her cabin: "Why, it's like a room isn't it? Oooo, round windows!" (A great film moment--laugh every time I 've seen it!)

[tomc]

Walter Lord's "A Night To Remember," with Kenneth Moore.

 

No second place.

 

But, as a comedy, "Speed 2." Whenever the writers could get anything wrong, they did. Great for a laugh.

[Copper10-8]

Sink the Bismarck!;)

[bepsf]

My favorite is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Marilyn Monroe's comments as she enters her cabin: "Why, it's like a room isn't it? Oooo, round windows!" (A great film moment--laugh every time I 've seen it!)

 

 

Hahaha---

 

Ditto - That's one of my favorites too!

 

I love the exterior shots of the Ile de France - but I don't think the Ile had a gymnasium that large!!!

;)

 

I also love the 50's film "Bon Voyage" - starring the SS United States.

[hammybee]

Adventures in Paradise. Now that was a ship.

[sgttami]

My favorite is still the I Love Lucy where she misses the ship!!

 

I watched it before I ever cruised and I still get a kick out of it years (and many cruises) later.

 

It's timeless.....

[Atomica]

Just recently saw a very unusual movie called "The Legend of 1900", directed by Italian Giuseppe Tornatore. The Italian title of the movie is "La Leggenda del Pianista sull'oceano ( The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean). It's about a baby boy who is discovered in a box on top of a piano on an ocean liner in the year 1900 and raised onboard by a member of the engine crew. He spends his entire life on this ship, and has a brilliant gift for piano playing. Here's a link to a complete plot summary of the movie.

 

My 17-year-old daughter and I cried buckets watching this movie, but my husband got up in disgust about half way through.:rolleyes:

 

I LOVE that movie!!! I saw it 6 years ago when I was working at a video store & it first came out. The soundtrack by Ennio Morricone is fantastic as well - it's on my itunes playlist at work.

 

As for me, in addition to The Legend of 1900, I have to count Titanic and Out To Sea as some of my favorites. Brent Spiner does a great job at playing the somewhat psychotic cruise director, Gil Godwyn.

[babyher]

Out To Sea is great . You just don't get better than Lemmon and Matthau :)

 

I love the scene when they first get on the ship and see their cabin. Matthau cons Lemmon into going on the cruise as a gift with deluxe accomodations. When they get aboard , not only does Lemmon find out that Matthau has signed him up to be a dance host but they are in a tiny inside cabin with bunk beds that they have to share with two other guys.

 

 

Lemmon : I thought you said these were Deluxe accomodations.

 

Matthau: Well Deluxe is a tricky word. In the diner it just means "comes with fries" :) :)

[jhannah]

I like "Out to Sea" as well. But "Titanic" is my fave. I think they captured the mystique of classic transatlantic passages quite well. And the inclusion of documentary footage really capped it off.

[caribbean girl]

'An Affair to Remember' and 'Now Voyager' are two of my favorites.:) Who could lose with Bette, Deborah and Cary?

[RevNeal]

In no particular order:

 

An Affair to Remember (1957)

Love Affair (1939) ... the original, with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne

Now Voyager (1942)

The Lady Eve (1941)

Ship of Fools (1965)

One Way Passage (1932) ... William Powell is being escorted back to the States on a murder conviction.

[babyher]

In no particular order:

 

An Affair to Remember (1957)

Love Affair (1939) ... the original, with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne

Now Voyager (1942)

The Lady Eve (1941)

Ship of Fools (1965)

One Way Passage (1932) ... William Powell is being escorted back to the States on a murder conviction.

 

 

I forgot about "Ship of Fools". I saw it not too long ago and thought it was very very good.

 

The same can be said for "Voyage of The Damned"

 

Not neccessarily recruitment films for the cruise industry *LOL* :)

But both excellent films with phenomenal casts

[DCT61]

Mine is "THE LAST VOYAGE" (1960) with Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone. Although the movie kinda stinks...there are some great (last) interior shots of the ILE DE FRANCE.

[Krazy Kruizers]

A Night To Remember

[Krazy Kruizers]

(Also loved the Love Boat series).

[OldCodger73]

A Night to Remember and Titanic have to be on any list.

 

No one has mentioned the Marx brothers' A Night at the Opera yet, the ocean voyage is hilarious.

[cwtravel]

There was a movie in the 1970's, set on the ship "Hamburg" where a terrorist planted bombs on the ship and a bunch of British bomb experts were sent to the ship. The movie was a thriller and had an excellent cast.

I just can't remember the name of that movie but it is a very good movie.

 

As soon as I log off, I will remember the name.

 

Chris

[babyher]

There was a movie in the 1970's, set on the ship "Hamburg" where a terrorist planted bombs on the ship and a bunch of British bomb experts were sent to the ship. The movie was a thriller and had an excellent cast.

I just can't remember the name of that movie but it is a very good movie.

 

As soon as I log off, I will remember the name.

 

Chris

 

I believe you are talking about "Juggernaut"

 

Haven't seen it in years , but I remember it being a good thriller. If I am not mistaken Omar Sharif played the captain.

[babyher]

"Assault on a Queen" made in the early 60's. About a group out to rob the Queen Mary.

[MrsMuir]

And I think Richard Harris was in "Juggernaut." I never saw "Assault on a Queen," with Frank Sinatra (?). Was it any good? I believe it was supposed to be the Queen Mary or the Queen Elizabeth.

 

Actually, one of the best ship experiences I recall on the movie screen was the beginning scenes of "The Black Stallion," which took place on an old freighter/passenger ship, complete with seedy card players.

 

I'm glad that someone besides me remembers "Adventures in Paradise." Gardner McKay and that beautiful ship! Imagine what that does to a 14-year0old! McKay has a link to the Andrea Doria, by the way. A news photographer, he filmed her from an airplane as she went down.

 

Like so many of you, I love "Out to Sea." We watched "An Affair to Remember" for the twelfth time on Friday night, and I cried, of course. Overall, though, it's "A Night to Remember" with Kenneth More!

 

Linda