The Poseidon Adventure.

GALLICO, Paul.

Item Number: 135361

London: Heinemann, 1969.

First edition of this novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters and Red Buttons. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Paul Gallico on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

The Poseidon Adventure concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the S.S. Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90-foot (27-meter) wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks. It is the basis for the 1972 film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name. It has an ensemble cast including five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters and Red Buttons. It won two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award.