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66-502: It was written and directed by Andrew L. Stone . The film centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in its boiler room. The ship used in the film was the condemned French luxury liner SS Ile de France , which played a major role in rescue operations during the 1956 Andrea Doria disaster. The SS Claridon is an aging transpacific ocean liner, scheduled to be scrapped after just

132-713: A cruise on the Setuchi. The eastern end of the Sea is now famous for the Setouchi Triennale set up in 2010 with the next event happening in 2022. Some of this takes place on the island of Naoshima , known colloquially as the art island, and the home of several permanent museums. At the far eastern extremity, as the Sea meets the Pacific Ocean, are the Naruto whirlpools that can be reached by sight-seeing boats. The Shiwaku Islands are

198-467: A deal to make four more films over eighteen months: Bedside Manner (1945), The Bachelor's Daughters (1946), and Fun on a Weekend (1947). They left United Artists in 1947. He did some uncredited directing on The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948). Stone went to Warner Bros for Highway 301 (1950). Highway 301 was a crime film and ushered in a series of movies from Stone in that genre. "I had to talk Bernie Foy at Warners into letting me do

264-471: A defined group numbering 28 that can be reached by ferry boat from Marugame . Here Richard Henry Brunton built one of his lighthouses that can still be seen, and the grave of Frank Toovey Lake , a young midshipman in his survey party has become famous. In the central area of Seto Inland Sea is Mount Ishizuchi on Shikoku . It is the highest mountain in western Japan and the highest mountain in Shikoku . In

330-414: A few more voyages. Cliff ( Robert Stack ) and Laurie Henderson ( Dorothy Malone ), and their daughter, Jill (Tammy Marihugh), are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished, but not before a boiler fuel supply valve is fused open. Before Chief Engineer Pringle ( Jack Kruschen ) can manually open a steam relief valve, a huge explosion rips through

396-488: A film called The Last Voyage , which...for yours truly very nearly lived up to its title." According to William H. Miller, American maritime historian , The French Line thereafter forbade any use of the ships they sold for scrap to be used for anything other than scrapping. After the film was finished, Japanese scrappers raised the ship and towed it to their scrapyard. The film marked the third and final pairing of Stack and Dorothy Malone . They had previously costarred in

462-625: A lifeboat and asks them to return with an acetylene tank. The bulkhead between the boiler room and the engine finally gives way, causing the ship to sink lower. On top of that, a second explosion occurs in the cargo hold, blowing off the cargo hatch on the bow of the ship. Captain Adams is looking at his promotion letter to commodore of the line while Laurie holds a piece of a shattered mirror in her hand, contemplating suicide to free Cliff from risking his life to save her. She chooses not to do so and tosses it away. When Cliff and Lawson continue to search for

528-603: A local seaport on the Seto Inland Sea, and some of them were actually built. The Ministry of Railroads, later the Japanese National Railways and then Shikoku Railway Company , ran some train ferry lines between Honshū and Shikoku including the line between Uno Station (Tamano) and Takamatsu Station (Takamatsu). When the Great Seto Bridge was finished and began to serve the two coastal areas, that ferry line

594-512: A main transport line between its coastal areas, including what is today the Kansai region and Kyushu . It was also a main transport line between Japan and other countries, including Korea and China. Even after the creation of major highways such as the Nankaidō and San'yōdō , the Seto Inland Sea remained a major transport route. There are records that some foreign emissaries from China and Korea sailed on

660-413: A melodrama," Stone said later. "I made it practically for nothing to establish myself in that field." It would be Stone's last film shot in a studio. He did Confidence Girl (1952), and two with Joseph Cotten, The Steel Trap (1952) and A Blueprint for Murder (1953). He did The Night Holds Terror (1955) at Columbia. Stone signed a two-picture deal at MGM for whom he made Julie (1956),

726-459: A new two-picture deal with MGM. The first was The Secret of My Success (1965). The second was meant to be a history of aviation written by Ernest Gann , The Winning of the Sky , but it was never made. Stone made a musical for ABC Pictures titled Song of Norway (1970), a $ 3.5 million musical biopic of Edvard Grieg . The film performed reasonably well, but his next film The Great Waltz (1972)

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792-563: A number of smaller ones that pass between islands or connect the Seto Inland Sea to other seas or the Pacific . Almost 3,000 islands are located in the Seto Inland Sea. The largest island is Awaji-shima , and the second largest is Shōdo-shima . Many of the smaller islands are uninhabited. Over 500 marine species are known to live in the Seto Inland Sea. Examples are the ayu , an amphidromous fish, horseshoe crab , finless porpoise , and great white shark , which has occasionally attacked people in

858-498: A part of Hiroshima Prefecture ) clans were two of the more famous suigun lords. In the 12th century, Taira no Kiyomori planned to move the capital from Kyoto to the coastal village of Fukuhara (today Kobe ) to promote trade between Japan and the Song dynasty of China. This transfer was unsuccessful, and soon after Kyoto became the capital again. Later, the Battle of Yashima took place off

924-615: A part of Kobe ) and Akashi for two years. In medieval literature, because of the Genpei War , the Seto Inland Sea is one of the important backgrounds of The Tale of the Heike , particularly in its latter part. In the Western world, Donald Richie wrote a literary nonfiction travelogue called The Inland Sea relating a journey along the sea, beginning from the East at Himeji and ending at Miyajima in

990-519: A part of Wakayama Prefecture , was appointed the Setonaikai National Park ( 瀬戸内海国立公園 , Setonaikai Kokuritsu kōen ) on March 16, 1934, as one of three oldest national parks in Japan. Itsukushima Shrine , on the island of Itsukushima in the city of Hatsukaichi , is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most famous Japanese sites outside Tokyo and Kyoto . Shōdoshima , nicknamed

1056-409: A picture that has drama, conviction and suspense. Using as his setting the old condemned liner Ile de France...he has got an extraordinary feeling of the actuality of being aboard a ship, the creeping terror of a disaster, the agony of a great vessel's death. And in all of his performers, especially Miss Malone, he has got a moving reflection of frenzy, futility and fear." The critic for Time called

1122-511: A point where a reasonably realistic viewer is likely to mutter, 'Oh, no!' That's the point where the water in the stateroom is rising above Miss Malone's chin and Mr. Stack, Edmond O'Brien and Woody Strode are still working frantically with an acetylene tank to cut her free. Then the obvious desperation of the problem and the questionable buoyancy of the ship lead one to have misgivings about the reasonableness of Mr. Stone. But up to this point of departure, we have to hand it to him; he has put together

1188-403: A steward's help, but to no avail. A passenger states that he overheard his conversation and wants to help. Osborne (George Furness) reports that the boiler room is now half full. The ship then begins to transmit an SOS, on orders of Captain Adams. Cliff and a few other men return to his cabin to try to help free Laurie but find that they need a cutting torch. The carpenter reports to the crew that

1254-628: A thriller with Doris Day and Louis Jourdan , and Cry Terror! (1958), with Rod Steiger . (He had intended to follow Julie with a film about smoking, The Last Puff , but it was not made. ) Julie was a hit so MGM signed them to make four more movies: The Decks Ran Red (1959), The Last Voyage (1960), Ring of Fire (1961), and The Password Is Courage (1962) with Dirk Bogarde . He did Never Put It in Writing (1964) with Pat Boone for Allied Artists, filmed in England and Ireland. He signed

1320-426: A two-reel movie. It cost $ 3,200, which he had raised himself and was made on sets left over from Scaramouche . His first full-length feature was Dreary House (1928). He worked as director on Shadows of Glory (1930), Hell's Headquarters (1932) and The Girl Said No (1937). Stone says that MGM offered him a contract in the mid 1930s but he was reluctant to take it. He later said, “I’d have had to pacify

1386-438: A way to rescue Laurie, even recruiting Walsh's help, though the latter believes nothing can be done. Captain Adams returns to his office to retrieve the ship's logbook and papers but is killed when the forward smokestack falls on him. Meanwhile, a lifeboat returns with the acetylene tank and the group gets Laurie out from under the steel beam. Water pours into the open cargo hatch, and the ship begins its final plunge. They get up to

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1452-604: Is 105 m (344 ft). Hydrologically, Seto Inland Sea is not a true inland sea , being neither an epeiric body of water like Hudson Bay nor an isolated endorheic basin like the Caspian Sea . Rather, it is actually a marginal sea : a division of a wider ocean (in this case the Pacific) which is partially enclosed by islands, archipelagos, or peninsulas (here, the Japanese Home Islands), adjacent to or widely open to

1518-498: Is known for its moderate climate, with a stable year-round temperature and relatively low rainfall levels. The sea is famous for its periodic red tides ( 赤潮 , akashio ) caused by dense groupings of certain phytoplankton that result in the death of large numbers of fish. Since the 1980s, the sea's northern and southern shores have been connected by the three routes of the Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project , including

1584-563: The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (the second-longest suspension bridge in the world) to Awaji Island , from there via the Ōnaruto Bridge to Ōge-jima ( Naruto , Tokushima Prefecture ) beyond the 1.3-kilometer wide Naruto Strait and finally across the Muya Bridge to Shikoku . The Great Seto Bridge connects Okayama Prefecture with Kagawa Prefecture since 1988. It consists of a total of six two-storey bridges, whose lower floors are used by

1650-584: The Douglas Sirk films Written on the Wind (1956) and The Tarnished Angels (1958). According to MGM records the film earned $ 1,060,000 in the US and Canada and $ 1 million elsewhere resulting in a $ 551,000 loss. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called the film "exciting" and noted "the tension is held unrelentingly until the very end." He added, "Well, almost the end. Let's be honest. Things do finally come to

1716-646: The Great Seto Bridge , which serves both railroad and automobile traffic. The International Hydrographic Organization 's definition of the limits of the Seto Inland Sea (published in 1953) is as follows: On the West. The southeastern limit of the Japan Sea [In Shimonoseki-kaikyo . A line running from Nagoya Saki (130°49'E) in Kyûsû through the islands of Uma Sima and Muture Simia (33°58',5N) to Murasaki Hana (34°01'N) in Honsyû ]. On

1782-591: The Inland Sea , is the body of water separating Honshu , Shikoku , and Kyushu , three of the four main islands of Japan . It serves as a waterway connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Japan . It connects to Osaka Bay and provides a sea transport link to industrial centers in the Kansai region , including Osaka and Kobe . Before the construction of the San'yō Main Line , it was

1848-565: The "island of olives", and the Naruto whirlpools are two other well-known tourist sites. Neighboring locations like Kotohira and Okayama are often combined with the tour of the Setouchi region. Some historic sites, including Yashima in Takamatsu and Kurashiki , also attract many visitors. Hiroshima is the neighbor city to Itsukushima Shrine and another UNESCO World Heritage Site because of atomic bomb damage in 1945. Idol Unit STU48 operate on

1914-738: The East ( Kii Suidô ). A line running from Takura Saki (34°16'N) in Honsyû to Oishi Hana in the island of Awazi , through this island to Sio Saki (34°11'N) and on to Oiso Saki in Sikoku . On the South ( Bungo Suidô ). A line joining Sada Misaki (33°20'N) in Sikoku and Seki Saki in Kyûsyû. The range of the Seto Inland Sea by the Territorial Sea Law ( 領海及び接続水域に関する法律 ) is 19,700 km (7,600 sq mi). The range of

1980-519: The Pacific. Development of land transportation shifted the travel between east and west — that is, between Honshū and Kyūshū — to railroad and road transport. Two coastal railways, San'yō Main Line in Honshū and Yosan Main Line, were built. Those railway lines stimulated the local economy and once invoked a rail mania. Many short railroads were planned to connect a certain station of those two lines and

2046-528: The Seto Inland Sea according to the Setouchi Law and the Setouchi Law Enforcement Order is 21,827 km (8,427 sq mi). The Seto Inland Sea is 450 km (280 mi) long from east to west. The width from south to north varies from 15 to 55 km (10 to 34 mi). In most places, the water is relatively shallow. The average depth is 38 m (125 ft); the greatest depth

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2112-445: The Seto Inland Sea as transport line served four coastal areas: Kansai, Chūgoku, Shikoku, and eastern Kyūshū. The Seto Inland Sea provided each of these regions with local transportation and connected each region to the others and far areas, including the coastal area of the Sea of Japan, Korea, and China. After Kobe port was founded in 1868 to serve foreign ships, the Seto Inland Sea became a major international waterway with connection to

2178-415: The Seto Inland Sea is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Japan. Even before Japan opened to foreigners in the middle of the 19th century, the sea's beauty was praised and introduced to the Western world by those who visited Japan, including Philipp Franz von Siebold , and after the country's opening, Ferdinand von Richthofen and Thomas Cook . Its coastal area, except for Osaka Prefecture and

2244-632: The Seto Inland Sea. The importance of water traffic gave rise to private navies in the region. In many documents, these navies were called suigun ( 水軍 , "water army") , or simply pirates. Sometimes they were considered to be public enemies, but in most cases they were granted the right to self-governance as a result of their strength. During the feudal period, suigun seized power in most coastal areas. The Kono in Iyo Province (today Ehime Prefecture ) and Kobayakawa (later Mōri ) in Aki Province (today

2310-466: The Seto Inland Sea. In the past, whales entered the sea to feed or breed, however because of whaling and pollution, they are rarely seen. During the last ice age , the sea level was lower than today. After the ice age, sea water poured into a basin between the Chūgoku mountains and Shikoku mountains and formed the Seto Inland Sea as it is known today. From ancient times, the Seto Inland Sea served as

2376-626: The University of California. He built a movie theater in his back yard, with two projectors and seats for 50 kids. Films were bought at a dollar a reel. Stone worked for a film exchange for Universal after school and on Sundays. "I wanted anything I could get to do with films - rewinding, splicing, projecting," he once said. In the mid-'20s, he moved to Hollywood and worked in a laboratory. He also worked in Universal's prop department. In 1926, Stone financed his first directorial effort The Elegy (1926),

2442-484: The West, close to Hiroshima, going from island to island, exploring the landscape, meeting and discussing with local people, as well as musing on Japanese culture, the nature of travel and of identity, and his own personal sense of identity. In 1991, filmmakers Lucille Carra and Brian Cotnoir produced a film version of Richie's book, which further explored the region through interviews and images photographed by Hiro Narita. Produced by Travelfilm Company and adapted by Carra,

2508-402: The boat deck along with Osborne and Ragland. As they proceed to the stern where a lifeboat is standing by, Walsh jumps off the ship and swims away from it. Cliff, Laurie, Osborne, Ragland, and Lawson jump into the water and find a lifeboat just as the ship sinks. Cliff personally helps Lawson aboard, in thanks for his devotion to assisting Laurie's rescue, and the narrator concludes with, "This was

2574-408: The boiler room is now two-thirds full. Captain Adams makes an announcement to the passengers to put on their life jackets, and soon after reluctantly orders the crew to begin loading and launching the lifeboats. Cliff finds a torch and tries to rush back to Laurie with the help of crewman Hank Lawson ( Woody Strode ), but they still need an acetylene tank. On instruction from Cliff, Lawson puts Jill in

2640-412: The boiler room, the many decks situated above it, and the side of the ship. Pringle and a number of passengers are killed, and Laurie is trapped under a steel beam in their cabin. Cliff runs back there and can't get Laurie out alone. He then finds Jill trapped on the other side of the big hole left by the explosion. He tries to use a shattered piece of the bed to get to the other side, but it falls through

2706-521: The coast of present-day Takamatsu. In the Edo period , the Seto Inland Sea was one of the busiest transport lines in Japan. It was a part of a navigational route around Japan's islands via the Sea of Japan. Many ships navigated from its coastal areas to the area along the Sea of Japan. Major ports in the Edo period were Osaka, Sakai, Shimotsui, Ushimado , and Tomonoura. The Seto Inland Sea also served many daimyōs in

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2772-682: The coast of the Seto Inland Sea include Osaka, Kobe, and Hiroshima. Smaller scale manufacturing and industry can also be found in Kurashiki , Kure , Fukuyama , and Ube in Honshū, and Sakaide , Imabari , and Niihama in Shikoku. Major industries include steel production, vehicle manufacture, ship building, textiles, and since the 1960s, oil refining and chemical products. Imabari Shipbuilding , Japan's largest ship building company, has its headquarters and some of its yards in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. Thanks to

2838-452: The death of the steamship Claridon . This was her last voyage." Stuart Whitman was originally announced for the male lead, and Sidney Poitier for the role of Hank Lawson. The film originally was scheduled to be shot in CinemaScope off the coast of England, but instead it was filmed almost entirely in the Inland Sea off the coast of Osaka causing noticeable consistency conflicts in

2904-552: The film "the most violently overstimulating experience of the new year in cinema: an attempt by two shrewd shock merchants, Andrew and Virginia Stone...to give the mass audience a continuous, 91-minute injection of adrenaline. As a piece of professional entertainment, The Last Voyage is plainly superior to the picture it was patterned after, the British version of the loss of the Titanic . The script takes advantage of its fictional freedom, as

2970-704: The film won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival (1991) and the Earthwatch Film Award. It screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992. Koushun Takami 's novel Battle Royale took place on a fictional island in the Seto Inland Sea. A critical plot element of the Japanese series Fafner in the Azure is an alien life form discovered at

3036-536: The film. For example in the beginning of the film all of the shipboard extras are of European origin however as the ship begins to sink,(and the outdoor filming moves to Inland Sea ) a majority of the shipboard guests (extras) become Asian in origin (this is most notable in the obvious attempt to have the extras avert their faces from the camera). The ship used in the film was the French luxury liner SS Ile de France , which had been in service from 1927 until 1959, when it

3102-478: The hole. Third Officer Osborne believes that the crew should start loading the passengers into the lifeboats, but Captain Robert Adams ( George Sanders ) is reluctant, as he never lost a ship. Cliff rescues Jill by placing a board for her to crawl across the hole on. Down in the boiler room, Second Engineer Walsh ( Edmond O'Brien ) reports to Captain Adams that a seam to the bulkhead has broken away. Cliff tries to get

3168-665: The importance of the Seto Inland Sea as a transport line. Remarkable land transportation innovations include the San'yō Main Railroad Line in Honshū and the Yosan Main Railroad Line in Shikoku (both completed before World War II ) and three series of bridges connecting Honshū and Shikoku (completed in the late 20th century). The Seto Inland Sea is still used, however, by an international cargo transport line and several local transport lines connecting Honshū with Shikoku and Kyūshū. Major cities with heavy industrial activity on

3234-622: The income of the daimyo , which was in the form of koku , giant bales of rice. The Seto Inland Sea was also part of the official Chosendentsushi route, bringing Korean emissaries to the shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration , the coastal cities along the Seto Inland Sea were rapidly industrialized. One of the headquarters of the Japanese Navy was built in the town of Kure . Since the Meiji period, development of land transport has been reducing

3300-408: The main transportation link between Kansai and Kyūshū. Yamaguchi , Hiroshima , Okayama , Hyōgo , Osaka , Wakayama , Kagawa , Ehime , Tokushima , Fukuoka , and Ōita prefectures have coastlines on the Seto Inland Sea; the cities of Hiroshima , Iwakuni , Takamatsu , and Matsuyama are also located on it. The Setouchi region encompasses the sea and surrounding coastal areas. The region

3366-433: The moderate climate and beautiful landscape, fishing, agriculture, and tourism bring a lot of income to the area as well. Today the Seto Inland Sea serves its coastal areas mainly for two purposes: first, international or domestic cargo transportation, and second, local transportation between coastal areas and islands on the sea. Major ports are Kobe, Okayama, Takamatsu , Tokushima, Matsuyama, and Hiroshima. Historically,

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3432-582: The open ocean at the surface. The Naruto Strait connects the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea to the Kii Channel , which in turn connects to the Pacific. The western part of the Seto Inland Sea connects to the Sea of Japan through the Kanmon Straits and to the Pacific through the Bungo Channel . Each part of the Seto Inland Sea has a separate name in Japanese. For example, Iyo-nada ( 伊予灘 ) refers to

3498-796: The railway ( Japan Railways Group ). The high speed Shinkansen does not go to or on Shikoku. This is the first of three intersections of the Seto Inland Sea. Construction started in 1975, but was fully completed in 1999. It connects the Nishiseto- Onomichi Highway in Hiroshima Prefecture with a total of ten bridges and several smaller islands with Imabari in Ehime Prefecture . Approximately 100,000 people live on those islands. The bridges are: Shin Onomichi Bridge, Innoshima Bridge , Ikuchi Bridge, Tatara Bridge , Ōmishima Bridge,

3564-423: The script of A Night to Remember could not, to focus its interest and excite its pace. The scenes of destruction are particularly explicit and dramatic. And yet, in its total effect, The Last Voyage lacks an element essential in all great disasters: dignity. Indeed, the idle depredation of a noble old ship, for the mere sake of salable sensation, may seem to some moviegoers an absolute indignity." Augie Lohman

3630-473: The stars and keep them happy – like a priest who doesn’t believe a word of what he says. Then there was a Paramount contract — no big stars, but freedom. That’s the one I went for. It didn’t take me long to see I’d never make a nickel, but I didn’t give a damn.” Stone signed a contract at Paramount for whom he made Stolen Heaven (1938), Say It in French (1938) with Ray Milland , The Great Victor Herbert (1939), and The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941). He

3696-476: The strait between Ehime, Yamaguchi, and Ōita prefectures in the western portion of the sea; Aki-nada ( 安芸灘 ) is the open expanse west of the Geiyo Islands , near Hiroshima prefecture; and Suō-nada ( 周防灘 ) refers to the expanse between Yamaguchi prefecture and Suō-Ōshima . These areas are sometimes styled Iyonada, Akinada, and Suonada. There are also many straits located between the major islands, as well as

3762-549: The two Ōshima bridges and the three Kurushima Kaikyo bridges. The Kurushima Kaikyō Bridge connects the island of Ōshima to the main island of Shikoku . The Akinada Tobishima Kaido route connects seven of the western Geiyo Islands to mainland Honshu near Kure, Hiroshima . Seto Naikai Pilots Area provides compulsory maritime piloting for vessels over 10,000 tones, it was divided into sections of Bisanseto and sections of Kurushima , connecting Kanmon Channel Piloting Area and Osaka Bay Piloting Area. The coastal area of

3828-456: The western area of Japan as their route to and from Edo , to fulfill their obligations under sankin-kōtai . Many used ships from Osaka. Thanks to transport through the Seto Inland Sea, Osaka became the economic center of Japan. Each han had an office called Ozakayashiki in Osaka. These Ozakayashiki were among Japan's earliest forms of banks, facilitating domestic trade and helping to organize

3894-766: The western end of the Sea is Mimosusogawa Park ( ja:みもすそ川公園 ) in Shimonoseki . It commemorates the final stage of the Genpei war between the feudal Taira clan and Minamoto clan (1180–1185). Some sites along the Seto Inland Sea were featured in eighth-century Japanese literature, both in prose and in verse, including Kojiki , Nihon Shoki , and Man'yōshū . Since some sites were used as places of exile, their feeling and landscape were evoked in waka . In fiction, in The Tale of Genji , Genji fled from Kyoto and resided in Suma (now

3960-578: Was a big flop. In 1977, he did some work for Universal on the action and disaster sequences for Rollercoaster . Stone was married three times: In her memoir, Evelyn Keyes claimed that during production on Say It In French (1938), Stone raped her, which resulted in a pregnancy. Keyes aborted the pregnancy, leaving her weakened and permanently unable to have children. Rather than postponing production, Stone had her fired and replaced with Olympe Bradna . Seto Inland Sea The Seto Inland Sea ( 瀬戸内海 , Seto Naikai ) , sometimes shortened to

4026-467: Was abolished. The main islands Honshū and Shikoku are connected by three series of bridges since the late 1980s. This improves land transportation between the connected islands. These series of bridges, collectively known as the Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project , are, from east to west, Akashi Kaikyo Bridge , Great Seto Bridge , and Nishiseto Expressway . The easternmost highway was built between 1976 and 1998. It leads from Akashi ( Hyōgo Prefecture ) on

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4092-438: Was meant to make Manhattan Rhapsody for the studio. At 20th Century Fox he earned acclaim for directing the 1943 film Stormy Weather , starring Lena Horne . Stone formed his own production company, Andrew L Stone Productions, with his then-wife Virginia. They signed a deal with United Artists to make two films: Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) and Sensations of 1945 (1944). United Artists were pleased enough to offer him

4158-560: Was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his 1956 thriller Julie . Stone's stories frequently featured characters called Cole, Pringle and Pope, usually in law enforcement and interchangeably played by the same actors— Jack Kruschen , Barney Phillips and John Gallaudet . Roles with those names were included in A Blueprint for Murder , The Night Holds Terror , Julie , Cry Terror! and The Decks Ran Red . Born in Oakland, California, Andrew L. Stone attended

4224-696: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects . Andrew L. Stone Andrew Lysander Stone (July 16, 1902 – June 9, 1999) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Julie in 1957 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Known for his hard-hitting, realistic films, Stone frequently collaborated with his second wife, editor and producer Virginia Lively Stone (m. 1946). Though few of his films achieved mainstream success, Stone

4290-572: Was sent crashing into the deckhouse and the Art Deco interiors were destroyed by explosives and/or flooded. Because of the poisonous jellyfish in the Inland Sea, the final lifeboat scene was filmed in Santa Monica, California . In his autobiography Straight Shooting , Robert Stack recalled, "No special effects for Andy [Stone]; he actually planned to destroy a liner and photograph the process. Thus began

4356-416: Was sold to a Japanese scrapyard . Its former owners initially attempted to block Stone's rental of it (for $ 1.5 million), but withdrew their opposition when MGM agreed not to identify it by its original name when publicizing the film. It was towed to shallow waters, where jets of water shot onto it from fire boats flooded forward compartments and made it appear that it was sinking by the bow. The forward funnel

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