Frank Sinatra S The Devil At 4 O Clock Is The First Disaster Movie
The 1961 blockbuster The Devil At 4 O’Clock is one of the first true disaster movies. While there had been other movies in the genre before it, The Poseidon Adventure is considered the first to make the disaster genre popular. This 1972 adventure was based on the novel of the same name and starred Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, and Leslie Nielsen (Airplane!). The story finds the survivors of an ocean liner that’s been flipped upside down during a tsunami working together to escape the ship....