sunk ocean liner move question

[Soundguy]

I remember.. or.. 25 or 30 ys ago maybee watching a movie about a sunk ocean liner that had people still living on it after it sunk... IE. the had an air pocket, and some crew and passangers survived.. etc.. and started farming seaweed .. etc... Years later on people found them using a diving sphere and someone tapped out on the hull, from the inside, 'danger air toxic '.. anyway.. when the divers boarded the ship, one was shot by one of the 'crew' of the ship.

I can't for the life of me remember the name of this movie.. anybody else?

thanks

soundguy

 

[aczlan]

Goliath Awaits (1981) perhaps?

Aaron Z

 

[riptides]

Google is your friend.

 

[aczlan]

Google is your friend.

Ayep, I searched for sunken ocean liner survivors living underwater movie and the link I posted was the first result.

Aaron Z

 

[JB4310]

Never heard of it. was it any good

JB.

 

[Tig]

After reviewing the cast list, I'd watch it just for the flash back value.

 

[Soundguy]

yep, that must be it! wow 29 yr old movie.. and look at that cast list!

I need to go find a copy.

thanks!

soundguy

 

[MossRoad]

yep, that must be it! wow 29 yr old movie.. and look at that cast list!

I need to go find a copy.

thanks!

soundguy

I gotta ask...

What made you remember it? I ask because the other day I heard some Cajun music and remembered the movie Southern Comfort seemingly out of the blue. Haven't seen the movie in 20+ years but it popped right in my head.

 

[jayste]

I gotta ask...

What made you remember it? I ask because the other day I heard some Cajun music and remembered the movie Southern Comfort seemingly out of the blue. Haven't seen the movie in 20+ years but it popped right in my head.

Oh yes. Southern Comfort (the movie) I remember that one. Weekend warriors against the cajuns.

 

[czechsonofagun]

I gotta ask...

What made you remember it? I ask because the other day I heard some Cajun music and remembered the movie Southern Comfort seemingly out of the blue. Haven't seen the movie in 20+ years but it popped right in my head.

Yeah I saw it recently, pretty good. Do you know Surviving the game?

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah I saw it recently, pretty good. Do you know Surviving the game?

Nope. I'll have to look that one up.

 

[Soundguy]

I gotta ask...

What made you remember it? I ask because the other day I heard some Cajun music and remembered the movie Southern Comfort seemingly out of the blue. Haven't seen the movie in 20+ years but it popped right in my head.

weird.. I was listening to the ballad of the edmond fitzgerald ( gordon lightfoot) and I started thinking about sunk boats..

soundguy

 

[MossRoad]

weird.. I was listening to the ballad of the edmond fitzgerald ( gordon lightfoot) and I started thinking about sunk boats..

soundguy

Ha! That'll do it!

Speaking of sunken boats, if, for any reason, you are ever in Northern Michigan, go to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, A maritime museum in upper peninsula Michigan on Whitefish Point at Whitefish Point.
It is a pretty nice little museum and they play The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald continuously (and I mean continuously) softly in all of the buildings and gift shop (great fudge shop). My kids kept singing the lines

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

with an emphasis on Gitche GUUMEEEE

over and over all day after we left.

For anyone that doesn't remember all of the lyrics to that song.... here's a link.

It really is a good set of lyrics, well written and sung.

 

[JB4310]

That is an awesome and Eire song, definitely one my favorites on my MP3 player.

I especially like songs like that, that are based on historic fact as opposed to all the "baby, baby, baby I love you" crap.
Along the lines of Dylan's Hurricane, Neil Young's Cortez, or Don McLean's Vincent.

Didn't know the lyric was gitche gumee, thought it was something like "Shugumey"

I like the line "fellas its been good to know ya"

That voice was just perfect for telling such a storey.

JB.

 

[MossRoad]

... I especially like songs like that, that are based on historic fact as opposed to all the "baby, baby, baby I love you" ....

That's historic, too.... I've been with the same woman for 30 years!

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. good song, good story.

soundguy

Ha! That'll do it!

Speaking of sunken boats, if, for any reason, you are ever in Northern Michigan, go to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, A maritime museum in upper peninsula Michigan on Whitefish Point at Whitefish Point.
It is a pretty nice little museum and they play The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald continuously (and I mean continuously) softly in all of the buildings and gift shop (great fudge shop). My kids kept singing the lines

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

with an emphasis on Gitche GUUMEEEE

over and over all day after we left.

For anyone that doesn't remember all of the lyrics to that song.... here's a link.

It really is a good set of lyrics, well written and sung.

 

[MossRoad]

yep.. good song, good story.

soundguy

We only live about 25-30 miles from Lake Michigan's southern tip. When I was a kid in the late '60s, we used to go up to a beach at Benton Harbor, MI every summer. I remember HUGE ships going both directions back and forth to the steel mills around Gary, Indiana. Back then you could see all of the steel mills along the shorline and clear over to Chicago from Benton Harbor. MI. There would rarely be a time when there was not a huge ship somewhere on the horizon and usually two. These days, it is very rare to see an iron ore ship on Lake Michigan.

 

[Soundguy]

that's sad..


soundguy

 

[MossRoad]

You know the funny thing is Northwest Indiana it is still the largest steel producing area in the U.S.

 

[dcyrilc]

Hey Soundguy,
Was that title supose to be "sunk ocean liner movie question" or "move question" as posted? When I saw the title, I said "HUH, I gotta read this". Then I saw you were the poster and really knew I had to check it out!

Great thread. Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald is one of my favorite songs from my youth.