Irwin Allen, the Hollywood super producer and director who reveled in bold over-the-top storytelling seen in his epic '70s catastrophe movies like "The Poseidon Adventure," "The Swarm," and "The ...

After "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While there are passengers still on-board waiting to be rescued ...