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| ACTORS: | Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Mark Robson |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 15 November, 1974 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Goodtimes Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 018713810274 |
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Customer Reviews of Earthquake
Flawed but an fine entertaining action/adventure film. Construction engineer Stewart Graff (Charlton Heston) is having problems coping with his troubled wife (Ava Gardner) and a young mother (Genevieve Bujold) and his father in law boss (Lorne Greene). When the biggest earthquake hits L.A., hell is about to break loose and in the history of mankind. The film has one almost fatal flaw: The problems between Graff (Heston), His wife (Gardner) and His father in law boss (Greene) doesn`t work, because they are almost the same age in real life, while making this picture. Help from good performances like George Kennedy as a cop is great in the movie and excellent special effects done by Albert Whitlock (The Birds, John Carpenter`s The Thing).
DVD is short on extras but an fine non-anamorphic widescreen transer (2.35:1) and excellent Dolby Surround Sound, which sounds great on a Home Theater. Grade:B+. Panavision.
Not Quite the Movie I Remembered
Just didn't measure up to a 9 year old's recollection of this film. Still, it wasn't too bad. There is some good action, and while heston is loud and pretentious, it's an unusually subdued performance by his standards. Walter Matthau plays a drunk that seems to pop into scenes inexplicably. Victoria Principal is very cute as the sister who wears a T-Shirt of a daredevil because she has large enough measurements. Marjoe Gortner plays Jody, the oft-mistreated store clerk who wears giant blond afro hair that supposedly fits under a "regulation" length wig when called to duty by the reserves. of course, once in charge during the quake, Jody goes nuts, shoots his enemies, and tries to rape Victoria Principal, who looked at him once in the grocery store and obviously wanted it.The DVD is pretty short on extras. Picture quality is alright and sound also, nothing spectacular. Typical disaster script, with affairs and turmoil leading up to the big shake, then lots of overwrought acting from the various lovers in the cast. Some of the special effects really are well done.
Goodtimes doesn't 'make' movies. Oh, and this one is awful
Goodtimes is a small VHS/DVD distributor, usually of long forgotten bad movies and that's why their sooooooooo cheap.
Of course you get what you pay for.
And what do you expect with Charlton Heston?
Eventually all 'Chuck's movies' will wind up in the Goodtimes bin!
Because Charlton Heston can't act his way out of the proverbial paer bag.
Chuck once had muscles (just like Popeye) and his biceps got him into the movies. But he always needed to be stuck in big budget epics like this brain fart. Why? Because if you pay attention to all the DTS Dolby stereo High definition yaddas then you won't notice the huy can't act!
Even most Hollywood reviewers who like the poor big dumb fella have written that this is one of his worst.
Yuk