★ 5 / 10
Cave Inn is a lesser known Irwin Allen's disaster!!
elo-equipamentos
The master of disaster pictures Irwin Allen shot it in 1979, for unknown reasons it kept in the shelf for four years, just in 1983 it was aired in America…
The master of disaster pictures Irwin Allen shot it in 1979, for unknown reasons it kept in the shelf for four years, just in 1983 it was aired in America, probably it was landed in Brazil and I missed it somehow, as Irwin Allen gave me the legendary Sci-fi series Land of the Giants at my childhood days, by this I've collecting all their movies, it reached officially on DVD last year in a three-box sets fully remastered.In this offering Irwin Allen drew up another disaster hour this turn in a fictional Five Mile Cave National Park that was in financial problems to keep safe the entire cave system, so they expect a senator visit to certify the security system to providing resources to keep the Cave park operation, meanwhile they have been receiving the current visitors and also a famous academic professor to certify his theory over human ancestral that supposedly lived there at stone age, to worsen a wacko convict hidden there, then came up the so awaited crumbling due heavy rain season.Our beloved Irwin Allen demanding make huge phony cardboard's cave sets, narrow cracks linking the several caves, a deadly sulphurous hot waters, underground river, rotten old rope bridge and so for whereby a bunch of survivors shall passing thru, in between the producer inserts several flashbacks regarding their problems on near pastime, great actors attended as Leslie Nielsen (no jokes), the veteran Ray Milland-Lonny Chapman, the gorgeous Susan Sullivan and Dennis Cole as cave-guide, without forget the ill-tempered-menacing escapee James Olson, average disaster picture thru Warner Bros.Thanks for reading.Resume:First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 5.5.
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★ 3 / 10
Just when you think you found the worst disaster movie, another one like this pops up.
mark.waltz
Every time you need a pair of people in this Irwin Allen TV movie, they bring up a soap opera subplot, complete with flashbacks, and they become laughably bad…
Every time you need a pair of people in this Irwin Allen TV movie, they bring up a soap opera subplot, complete with flashbacks, and they become laughably bad every time they are introduced. The cast as the credits roll by bring chuckles on too, from Ray Milland in one of his patent grouchy old men roles to Leslie Nielson, surely so serious, and Susan Sullivan, turning around in her introductory scene like Maggie in the opening credits of "Falcon Crest". Fans of the nighttime cereal will be amused when she has to swim underwater and gets her foot caught on a rock, similar to something that happened on "Falcon Crest". Then there's a criminal on the run, James Olson, planning to use the disaster to keep the group underground as hostages, getting angry every time someone tries to tell him that he's taking a wrong turn.
I expected Abraham Lincoln to turn up in the shoot-out scene with Leslie Nielsen just like he did every week on the short-lived "Police Squad". Dennis Cole is the leading man, a mine inspector who warns Sullivan (a politician) of potential disaster. Of course they were romantically involved prior to this situation, and that's more soap opera to be dealt with. Of course in the meantime, there's a pond filled with boiling water that they have to Cross by the Rocks, an underground entrance to a cavern that is their way out that they all have the swim through, and the rickety bridge that couldn't hold a child's wage let alone a human adult weight. Each segment of disaster ends as if it's a 1940s serial, and while it's nail-biting at times, it's often silly.
The flashbacks are uninteresting and unintentionally silly, with Milland's daughter (Sheila Larken) feeling suffocated by him, and he is laughably bad, hasn't given mostly over the top, lousy performances since the late 50's. His character is a know-it-all who never shuts up, the type of person who do not want to be trapped within a cave-in. Well maybe not a cave where there's a canyon that goes down thousands of feet that someone ends up being tempted to push him in. Nielsen is at least spared the indignities I've been overly dramatic, laughable part, his issue being memories of watching his partner died which has created issues with his wife Julie Sommars. Yes attention of the that's if he's people are trapped and being held by a crazy man is intense, and for claustrophobic people, that's going to make it even worse. But Irwin Allen hadn't had a good disaster movie for the big screen or TV since "The Towering Inferno", and this indicates why he all of a sudden moved theatrical films to the small screen.
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5.2/10
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