Abandon Ship

Abandon Ship

14 of these survivors must be cast adrift! Which will the Captain choose?

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Release Date

3/12/1957

Runtime

100 mins

Overview

After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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Homepage

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A relentless maritime nightmare that traps you in a dangerously overcrowded lifeboat where survival depends on agonizing choices about who lives and dies. The film wrestles with the moral impossible, how authority figures justify the unjustifiable when resources run out.

Mood

TenseDread-soakedClaustrophobicBleak

Themes

SurvivalMortalityJusticePower

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Propulsive

Look

HandheldNaturalistic

Structure

Single location

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Graphic violence

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