DVD: When Time Ran Out - 1980 Disaster Film, When Mother Nature Blows Her Top

Description: When Time Ran Out... is a 1980 American disaster film directed by James Goldstone and starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset and William Holden. The supporting cast features James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Burgess Meredith, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Pat Morita, Edward Albert and Barbara Carrera. Produced by Irwin Allen, When Time Ran Out...'s screenplay by Carl Foreman and Stirling Silliphant is marginally based on the 1969 novel The Day the World Ended by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts detailing the factual 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique, which killed 30,000 people in five minutes by pyroclastic flow. It marked the second and final time Newman and Holden appeared in a film together following the box office triumph of The Towering Inferno six years earlier, as well as reuniting Borgnine and Buttons from The Poseidon Adventure. When Time Ran Out..., however, was a commercial flop and Allen's last theatrical release and is often regarded as the final 1970s era disaster film. The film was critically panned, and it was a commercial disappointment. Paul Zastupnevich's work on the film was recognized by a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. REAR COVER Enough stars to light five marquees. Enough subplots of passion, power and greed to fill 10 movies. Plus fiery special effects galore. From The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno producer Irwin Allen, and continuing that spectacular and devastating moviemaking tradition, comes When Time Ran Out... A South Pacific island's dormant volcano unexpectedly erupts in fury. Among those imperiled by the Carl Foreman/Stirling Silliphant script are wildcat oil driller Paul Newman, hotel baron William Holden and Jacqueline Bisset as a PR executive who must choose between them. Which familiar faces will survive when there's no such thing as safe ground? Watch - and watch out - for yourself. As the lava flows, so also flows rare and rousing screen excitement! DETAILED PLOT Shelby Gilmore, who owns a newly constructed hotel on a remote Pacific island, wants desperately to marry his secretary, Kay Kirby and proposes to her under the impression that she'll become his seventh wife. Kay is in love with Hank Anderson, an oil rigger whose scientists are warning him that the island's active volcano, Mauna Lani, is about to erupt. Shelby's partner, Bob Spangler, assures guests at the hotel that the threat of the volcano is a total exaggeration, explaining that it only erupts once every thousand years. Spangler is married to Shelby's goddaughter Nikki, but is cheating on her with Iolani, an executive with Shelby's hotel. Iolani is engaged to Brian, the hotel's general manager. Unbeknownst to all except Spangler, who chooses not to reveal the secret, Brian is his illegitimate younger half-brother and therefore part-owner of the resort. Guests at the hotel include a bonds smuggler, Francis Fendly, who is being tailed by a New York City private investigator, Tom Conti. Also on hand are Rene and Rose Valdez, who are retired circus tightrope walkers. Hank's oil rig workers include Tiny Baker, who has a wager going with cockfighting rival Sam on a prized rooster that has just been delivered to him. Sam and his wife Mona own a local bar on the opposite side of the island from the resort, closer to the volcano. Hank and Kay go for a picnic on the beach to discuss their relationship. During their time together, the volcano erupts and most of the island's population are wiped out. Tiny and all of Hank's workers are killed in town when a tsunami generated by Mauna Lani's eruption suddenly strikes. Sam takes Mona and two of his "bar girls," Delores and Marsha, and escapes by car, while Hank and Kay rescue Nikki and some others at stables in the path of the eruption by helicopter. The only survivors are those at Shelby's hotel, ignoring a disaster that will surely come straight for them, as the volcano is spewing fireballs. Small fireballs land at the hotel, and Conti is burned and blinded by one of them, to Fendly's horror. Conti is told by the paramedics that the injury is superficial, and given time to heal, he will regain his eyesight. Some of the hotel guests panic and try to escape by stealing the helicopter, but it soon crashes, killing all those inside. Hank insists that everyone must evacuate the hotel and journey to a safe side of the island to await rescue. Spangler convinces the majority of the guests to stay, including mistress Iolani. Shelby bids a farewell to Nikki, who insists on staying with her husband. After one final attempt to persuade others to join them, Hank and Kay leave the hotel along with Shelby, Brian, Rene and Rose, Fendly and Conti, Sam, Mona and the girls, plus a few more. At the hotel, Nikki stumbles upon her husband's affair with Iolani, but now it is too late for her to follow the others though Spangler expels her from the hotel. Trucks carrying survivors manage to travel as far as a mountainside gorge, where the road has fallen away. Everyone must cross the gorge on foot. Conti is guided by Fendly, and the two become friends. From there, the party comes upon a rickety wooden bridge over a river of molten lava. Hank crosses first to see if it is safe. The others go in pairs. Two native children, whose father died crossing the gorge, are afraid and run away. Rose, who had stopped to rest with Rene because of her weak heart, dies after telling her husband to find the children. After an explosion beneath the bridge causes Sam and Marsha to fall to their deaths into the lava, Rene hoists a child onto his back and recreates his old tightrope act to get the child safely across. Hank guides the second child to safety. The survivors take refuge in a cavern, during which time large fireballs streak across the sky. Spangler pays for his arrogance when one huge fireball arcs directly towards the hotel; destroying it and killing him, Nikki, Iolani and all who chose to stay. The next morning, the survivors continue on to the beach to wait for rescue from two ships, previously dispatched by Fiji.

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DVD: When Time Ran Out - 1980 Disaster Film, When Mother Nature Blows Her Top

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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Case Type: Tall/DVD Case

Rating: PG

Subtitle Language: English SDH

MPN: Multi Region Player Required To Play IN Aust & NZ, Imported Version - Region 1

Studio: Warner Bros

Format: DVD

Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)

Language: English

Release Year: 1980

Actor: Paul Newman Jacqueline Bisset William Holden Edward Albert Red, Ernest Borgnine James Franciscus, Alex Karras Burgess Meredith, Buttons Barbara Carrera Valentina Cortesa Veronica Hamel

Features: Dolby Audio

Movie/TV Title: When Time Ran Out

Season: Based on The Day the World Ended by Gordon Thomas

Music Artist: Lalo Schifrin

Video Format: PAL

Director: James Goldstone

Sub-Genre: Disaster

Cinematic Movement: Cult, Arthouse/Independent

Edition: Standard Edition

Aspect Ratio: 4:3

Type: Movie

Producer: Irwin Allen