![]() The rest of Turner's group makes it to his tugboat and they sail away. Tex, who in reality was not a wealthy passenger but a sommelier (part of the Poseidon 's crew), holds onto his wine bottle as he is gunned down and perishes. Turner and Celeste swim to the tugboat Jenny and move it closer to the Poseidon as the remaining survivors swim towards it. In another section of the ship, Turner and the survivors exit the ship through an underwater side door, but due to shortage of scuba tanks, Wilbur (unknown to Turner and his group) sacrifices himself by swimming underwater and disappearing. Svevo and his one remaining gunman head back up to the ship's stern, where the rest of Svevo's team attempt to use a crane to raise the plutonium up to the hull, which is still above water but is slowly sinking. While trying to rescue her, Turner loses all of his salvaged gold. Water floods the deck as Turner's group proceeds up to the next deck, where an injured Hannah is unable to climb a ladder: she falls into the rising water and drowns. In the ensuing shoot-out, Mazzetti and Castrop, another of Svevo's men, are killed. Turner, Mazzetti and Simpson find guns and attempt to make a fight of it. However, before anyone is killed, another explosion occurs, allowing Turner's group to escape through another cargo room. Svevo reveals that his real intention for boarding the Poseidon was to retrieve his lost shipment of plutonium, adding that he can't let Turner and his group go now. Svevo and his men are found gathering a cargo of plutonium. Hannah dislocates her shoulder while helping her husband. While making their way up through the decks, Turner and the others find Suzanne's corpse and reach the unpleasant conclusion that a murderer is on board. He shoots her, but before she dies she strikes Doyle with an axe, killing him. Svevo orders Doyle, one of his men, to kill Suzanne. Going off on her own, she gives Svevo the document but decides to rejoin Turner's group. She takes a list containing information about a cargo of crates from the purser's office. Unknown to Turner and the survivors, Suzanne is actually working with Svevo. Turner and Wilbur excitedly gather the coins. Another explosion causes the safe in the purser's office to fall through the bulkhead and open, revealing gold coins, diamonds and cash. Turner and his group find the purser's office, where Svevo decides he and his men will search for other survivors, parting ways with Turner's group. Water continues to submerge decks and more explosions occur. Later they also find the blind Harold Meredith and his wife Hannah, who were waiting to be rescued. Theresa is found, as are elevator operator Larry Simpson and a "billionaire" called "Tex" who clings to a valuable bottle of wine. The group with Turner encounters the ship's nurse, Gina Rowe and two passengers, elegantly dressed Suzanne Constantine and war veteran Frank Mazzetti, who is searching for his missing daughter Theresa. They board the doomed vessel through the bottom hull opening left by the French rescue team, then become trapped after the entrance collapses. Stefan Svevo and his crew, who claim to be Greek Orthodox medics who received the ship's SOS. Accompanied by second mate Wilbur and passenger Celeste Whitman, he heads out to claim salvage rights, as the tugboat Jenny lost her cargo in the same tsunami that capsized the Poseidon. Tugboat captain Mike Turner spots the rescue helicopter and subsequently finds the shipwreck. Poseidon is still afloat after six survivors have been rescued by the French Coast Guard. The film picks up directly after the events of the previous film. Its box office receipts were only 20% of its estimated $10 million budget. It was a critical and commercial failure, and was the only Allen disaster film to receive no Academy Award nominations. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American action- adventure disaster film and a sequel to The Poseidon Adventure (1972) directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine and Sally Field.
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