slanting

1960-02-19 | 91 min. | Thriller, Drama, Action

The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights to hold a bulkhead between the flooded boiler room and the engine room and avoid the sinking of the vessel, the passenger Cliff Henderson struggles against time trying to save his beloved wife Laurie Henderson, who is trapped under a steel beam in her cabin, with the support of the crew member Hank Lawson.

Robert Stack

Cliff Henderson

Dorothy Malone

Laurie Henderson

George Sanders

Capitaine Robert Adams

Edmond O'Brien

Second Engineer Walsh

Woody Strode

Hank Lawson

Jack Kruschen

Chief Engineer Pringle

Joel Marston

Third Officer Ragland

George Furness

Third Officer Osborne

Marshall Kent

Quartermaster

Andrew Hughes

Radio Operator

Tammy Marihugh

Jill Henderson

Richard Norris

3rd Engineer Cole