This really hit the spot, for what I was looking for, tonight. It really was a lot of fun. It had the cast, the setting, a *lot* of really great Canadian talent, and a more-than-usually "human" aspect to the story telling and character development (such as it was).
If you stick it out until the end, the wrap-up scene is so interesting, and different than most disaster movies I recall seeing. It's of the people who survived, sitting around, looking gobsmacked. That's just one of the touches in the movie that lift it above the usual dreck of the period.
It was terrific to see Richard Donat (from Haven) as a young man, and quite easy on the eyes, too ;D Cec Linder, Mavor Moore, the always wonderful Susan Clark...
Jonathan Welsh had always been a terrific actor. I found him to be interesting and plausible in this role. I wasn't bothered by lack of specific details about what kind of crazy the character was. He actually underplayed the nutsiness, and (I suppose) he and the director decided to allow his portrayal of the character to tell us what we needed to know. He was very effective. I see just now on imdb that he died young :(
For the time, 1979, this was a decent couple of hours entertainment, and the special effects were a heck of a lot better than some of the straight-to-vid disaster movies of these days.
If you stick it out until the end, the wrap-up scene is so interesting, and different than most disaster movies I recall seeing. It's of the people who survived, sitting around, looking gobsmacked. That's just one of the touches in the movie that lift it above the usual dreck of the period.
It was terrific to see Richard Donat (from Haven) as a young man, and quite easy on the eyes, too ;D Cec Linder, Mavor Moore, the always wonderful Susan Clark...
Jonathan Welsh had always been a terrific actor. I found him to be interesting and plausible in this role. I wasn't bothered by lack of specific details about what kind of crazy the character was. He actually underplayed the nutsiness, and (I suppose) he and the director decided to allow his portrayal of the character to tell us what we needed to know. He was very effective. I see just now on imdb that he died young :(
For the time, 1979, this was a decent couple of hours entertainment, and the special effects were a heck of a lot better than some of the straight-to-vid disaster movies of these days.