The Last Voyage (1960) | |
| Director(s) | Andrew L. Stone |
| Producer(s) | Andrew L. Stone (uncredited), Virginia L. Stone (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Drama |
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The Last Voyage (1960) was a Drama - Action Film directed by Andrew L. Stone and produced by Andrew L. Stone and Virginia L. Stone.
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THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER
By Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 18, 2023 From The Hitless Wonder Movie BlogI didn't get a chance to see THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER on the big screen--it didn't stick around too long in the theaters in my area. I did finally catch up to it this week. LAST VOYAGE has the ultimate horror high concept--it's based on the chapter in Bram Stoker's novel of DRACULA that deals ... Read full article
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[Last line]
Cliff Henderson: This is one guy I'm gonna help aboard personally!
Second Engineer Walsh: Let's get while the getting's good!
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Cliff Henderson: This is one guy I'm gonna help aboard personally!
Second Engineer Walsh: Let's get while the getting's good!
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The ship used by the filmmakers was the SS Ile de France, the famous French liner which cruised the Atlantic from 1926 to 1959. She was leased for $4,000 a day. After shooting completed, she was re-floated (having been partially sunk for the film) and was towed to the scrap yard. The SS Ile de France has a more heroic place in history, however. It was the SS Ile de France that played a major role in the rescue of the passengers from the Italian liner Andrea Dorea in 1956, after the latter ship collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The SS Ile de France was the first ship to arrive at the scene of the collision and immediately began taking aboard the Andrea Dorea's passengers.
For the scene in which the dining room is seen flooding, with water rushing in through the portholes, fireboats were positioned alongside the liner. They fired water at the portholes into the dining room, which was still well above sea level.
According to maritime historian William J. Miller, the famed French Line was so horrified that their former flagship would be used in such a way that they demanded that the Ile de France's name be removed from the ship's bow and that in no way would any references be made to the French Line.
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For the scene in which the dining room is seen flooding, with water rushing in through the portholes, fireboats were positioned alongside the liner. They fired water at the portholes into the dining room, which was still well above sea level.
According to maritime historian William J. Miller, the famed French Line was so horrified that their former flagship would be used in such a way that they demanded that the Ile de France's name be removed from the ship's bow and that in no way would any references be made to the French Line.
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