Thursday, September 27, 2012

ABANDON SHIP (1957)

[Update 02/27/2022: Need to redo this review completely. Fix the screenshots also.]

A cruise ship is blasted and 26 survivors gather on and around a large lifeboat.  Ship officer Tyrone Power has to take charge of these weak-minded losers and if that means tossing some of the old and injured overboard then so be it.  Or something like that.

I was hoping ABANDON SHIP would be better than Hitchcock’s weak LIFEBOAT...and it is better, but not by much.  There's a bunch of people on a boat, there's a lot of talking and people get upset, somebody threatens to eat a dog, another guy is stabbed and another shot with a flare gun, people drown, somebody spots a shark fin.  Sounds exciting, but it's really not.  I doubt I’ll ever watch it ever again.  Skip it.