What film is this?

dmsmith

Yes its another of my vague memories of a film that I just can't bring the name to mind - in fact I think it was a mini-series of two or three parts - all I can remember is that it was set on a ship of some kind and there was a creepy old dude who seemed to be associated with the deaths of people on board. Too vague? American mini-series to the best of my knowledge. Aired on TV sometime in late 1970s. Modern boat - not captain hook type drama. Not the Posedion films.

dm_boozefreek

Only one I can think of that slightly fits the bill is Death Ship.

Luny

Love Boat? :))

Timmy

Death on the Nile?

dmsmith

Luny wrote: »

Love Boat? :))

LOL - close!

dmsmith

I have found what it was - Online charades anyone? :-D

Luny

Come on then, 'give us a clue'; queue Grange Hill music.

Bloppinius_Blarp

The Black Hole?

dmsmith wrote: »

[...]all I can remember is that it was set on a ship of some kind and there was a creepy old dude who seemed to be associated with the deaths of people on board.[...]

dmsmith

Bloppinius_Blarp wrote: »

The Black Hole?

dmsmith wrote: »

[...]all I can remember is that it was set on a ship of some kind and there was a creepy old dude who seemed to be associated with the deaths of people on board.[...]

Close because it turns out Robert Forster was in both.

I'll not drag this on - it was called Goliath Awaits. I was a few years out on the date - it was aired in 1981. Made for TV. About a ship that was sunk in WW2 by a German Uboat and some of the passengers survived in an air pocket and built a sort of utopian society. Eventually many years later the wreck is discoved but many of the passengers have forgotten the outside world and don't want to leave. They survive in an sort of 1930s time warp - singing and dancing. But people are not dying off naturally but being killed. It has Alex Cord and Christopher Lee.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082461/

dmsmith

dmsmith wrote: »

Bloppinius_Blarp wrote: »

The Black Hole?

dmsmith wrote: »

[...]all I can remember is that it was set on a ship of some kind and there was a creepy old dude who seemed to be associated with the deaths of people on board.[...]

Close because it turns out Robert Forster was in both.

I'll not drag this on - it was called Goliath Awaits. I was a few years out on the date - it was aired in 1981. Made for TV. About a ship that was sunk in WW2 by a German Uboat and some of the passengers survived in an air pocket and built a sort of utopian society. Some shades in the story of Logan's Run and Captain Nemo. Eventually many years later the wreck is discoved but many of the passengers have forgotten the outside world and don't want to leave. They survive in an sort of 1930s time warp - singing and dancing. However people are not dying off naturally but being killed off secretly. It also has Alex Cord and Christopher Lee.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082461/

Luny

Not love boat then? :))

one of my memories is of the show The Fantastic Journey. It was on sunday mornings never to be repeated. So the memory is very sketchy, but remember enjoying it.

zx1

Isn't that a film about scientists that enter someone's body to repair it? It's got Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance in it.

dmsmith

zx1 wrote: »

Isn't that a film about scientists that enter someone's body to repair it? It's got Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance in it.

That was Fantastic Voyage - not sure if that is what Luny is talking about or a TV series he saw?

dmsmith

Having done a search there was a TV series called Fantastic Journey in the 1970s. A somewhat different story to Fantastic Voyage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Journey

Gwyn

I remember really enjoying The Fantastic Journey as a kid.

dmsmith

Having read about it on Wikipedia - the bit about someone with a tuning fork was the only thing that seemed familiar - so I guess I might have seen some episodes, but it hasn't stayed with me the way other shows of the era have.

Luny

Well done DM, that is the series. As I said before, its quite rare, hardly ever shown and not many people remember it. But it lodge in my brain for being a bit weird and I always loved weird tv as a kid. Roddy McDowell as the android always stuck in my head, that made it scifi for me. It was a very popular thing to have an android in those days like Logan's Run the tv series, or the Questor Tapes.

dmsmith

Luny wrote: »

Well done DM, that is the series. As I said before, its quite rare, hardly ever shown and not many people remember it. But it lodge in my brain for being a bit weird and I always loved weird tv as a kid. Roddy McDowell as the android always stuck in my head, that made it scifi for me. It was a very popular thing to have an android in those days like Logan's Run the tv series, or the Questor Tapes.

Took a look at the pilot episode. The scene with the luminous green mist was quite creepy together with the phantom ship bells ringing. Not really a believer in the Bermuda Triangle but I wonder sometimes why it would be so hard to locate wrecks like the USS Cyclops which likely sunk due to overloading and bad weather?

dmsmith

Luny wrote: »

. It was a very popular thing to have an android in those days...

They had Android phones back in the 70s? :-O Wow!! :))

Bloppinius_Blarp

Paradigm Shifter

.. but it was too late... I'd seen everything