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Frank X. Prudent
First Class Passenger
Member # 1723

posted 01-14-2001 09:24 AM

We're as a whole pretty good about coming up with the ocean liners used by Hollywood in the movies; how about naming the passenger vessels use in classics like UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, GONE WITH THE WIND, or STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND? There are other movies too featuring boats. Can anyone come up with their titles and name the vessels used for filming? For extra credit, does anybody know the name of the vessel in the not as yet released movie MISS MADISON?

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Guest
First Class Passenger
Member # 1157

posted 01-14-2001 10:32 AM

On the Big Screen :

QE2 features in "Parent Trap" as the ship the "Parents" get married on and make a second honeymoon aboard. QE2 also is
mentioned in "Aladdin 2" in one of the songs.

Titanic of course is a star in "Titanic", "SOS Titanic", "To Raise the Titanic", "A Night to Remember" and "Titanic 1956" , however
this is not the real ship (of course).

Rotterdam (I think) features in the movie "Out to Sea"

Sagafjord (pre Cunard) features in the drama movie "Danger" where the ship which in the movie is called 'SS Seaview' is overcome
by a killer virus.

On the Small Screen :

QE2 also features in the sitcom "The Nanny" in many episodes. She is the star of the show in "Keeping up Appearances - Episode
'Sea Fever'" when Hyacinth and Richard take a cruise.

Carnival Fantasy features in a kids movie with the Olsen Twins aboard.

And of course the princess "love boats" in Love Boat...

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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Member # 301

posted 01-14-2001 11:22 AM

Has any film-makers featured todays mega-newbuilds in movies?

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sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 01-14-2001 11:46 AM

Cunard - no it was not the Rotterdam in "Out to Sea" - it was the Westerdam they used for a few shots on the bridge and the Lido deck.
All interior shots were done in a studio.

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ocngypz
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Member # 1555

posted 01-14-2001 06:29 PM

Seabourn Legend in.......Scream II was the name???.. That Sandra Bullock movie.

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andizz
First Class Passenger
Member # 1629

posted 01-15-2001 06:14 AM

the movie your thinking of ,ocngypz, is SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL (to be exact!)
its a pretty good movie

also, an episode of the nanny was filmed onboard one of the celebrity ships.

there was also a bbc production (not sure of the name of the show) that was a documentary of the behind-the-scene goings onboard the galaxy.

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Jesse C
First Class Passenger
Member # 1678

posted 02-03-2001 08:52 AM

In the 1930's to the 1950's, many ships starred in movies.

Remember the SS Ile De France? The ship that rescued the most from the plagued TN Andrea Doria? It was scuttled for a movie in the 1960's right before she was scrapped.

The Fox Family Channel also had the Brittanic Movie. As usual, the real HMHS Brittanic was never used.

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Guest
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Member # 1157

posted 02-09-2001 11:12 AM

sympatico - thanks

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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Member # 301

posted 02-09-2001 03:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by andizz:
there was also a bbc production (not sure of the name of the show) that was a documentary of the behind-the-scene goings onboard the galaxy.

A docu-soap called simply "The Cruise". It made ship board singer Jane McDonald a big star in the UK. She has released several CD's, appears on prime time TV and has toured the UK, which included a show at the Royal Albert Hall.

The power of the little screen!

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Beezo
First Class Passenger
Member # 1505

posted 02-09-2001 04:34 PM

hey,
also in the movie "DEEP RISING" they featured a mega-ship? does anybody know the real name of it??

Brian

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Blizzard54
First Class Passenger
Member # 1824

posted 02-26-2001 10:16 PM

In the small screen area. The Love Boat TV show used both the Pacific and Island Princess in their 2 episodes a year they did onboard. The rest were done in the studio. I was on the Island during filming in 1978. As I recall the Pilot was done on the Sun Princess.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 09-02-2001 01:01 PM

The movie "Now Voyager" with Bette Davis took place on 2 cruises.

1st cruise was a P&O Steamer where she was having a fling with a crew member/officer; something I have had the pleasure of on the Rembrandt

Both were caught nookying in a car on the frieght deck[titanic copied theme with Leo and Kate]

Next cruise to Rio De Janiero used the original Empress of Britain; beautiful ship for exterior shots. She had a romance with a passenger.

I sailed to Rio on the Stella Oceanis as a teen.

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Cunardcoll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1226

posted 09-02-2001 03:43 PM

in DEEP RISING the so called Argonautica is actually a studio , but the ship seen from the distance could be one of the princess ships

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Jekyll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1878

posted 09-02-2001 07:17 PM

Another movie I can think of was Table for Five w/ John Voight which was set aboard Vistafjord (although the scene of them sailing from New York shows Sagafjord).

I also recall a movie filmed aboard Maxim Gorky but cannot recall its name - can someone help me on that?

The French Atlantic Affair (a 80's mini series used exterior shots of Mardi Gras if I am not mistaken).

And the series Tales of the City supposedly used a Carnival ship but used Celebrity externals - I really hate it when the researchers/ continuity people screw things up like that - what do they get paid for?????

Additionally one scene from Brideshead Revisted was filmed on QE2...

Can't think of anymore right now - anyone else care to have a go?

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David McIntosh
First Class Passenger
Member # 1737

posted 09-02-2001 08:06 PM

I remember some movie from the 70's with Omar Sherif and David Hemmings. Took place on a cruise ship that a terrorist had placed a bomb on board. Just can't remember the title. It was entertaing.

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nzmike
First Class Passenger
Member # 1308

posted 09-02-2001 08:58 PM

A couple of years back an episode of the X Files was filmed aboard the Queen Mary. She was supposedly a 1930's liner that went missing and was suddenly "found" drifting at sea (being TV of course, the power was still on after 60 years!). They also filmed on board quite a lot. Pearl Harbour also included some bow shots of the QM with New York in the background - obviously forgetting that she would have been painted grey during this time and that Manhatten would have been visible from the other direction, not at the stern!

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Werner
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Member # 1946

posted 09-03-2001 01:24 AM

The name of the film is "Juggernaut"

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Jesse C
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Member # 1678

posted 09-03-2001 02:00 AM

On the Parent Trap, the girls took a small boat and wrote "Queen Elizabeth 2" on the life bouy inside.

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Cunardcoll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1226

posted 09-03-2001 04:10 AM

There 's also an episode of McGyver filmed on the Vistafjord with some great air views.

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Jekyll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1878

posted 09-03-2001 10:17 AM

Werner:

Thank you! Juggernaut was the name of the movie I mentioned filmed onboard Maxim Gorky - not a bad flick. Thanks - I was going crazy trying to find it's name!

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David McIntosh
First Class Passenger
Member # 1737

posted 09-03-2001 11:44 AM

Thank Werner:
Juggernaut was the film I was thinking about with Omar Sherif and David Hemmings.

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Baker
First Class Passenger
Member # 1311

posted 09-04-2001 12:24 AM

Anyone remember a 60s film "The Mouse that Roared" with Peter Sellers, They attacked the Queen Elizabeth ( with arrows

) and my old ship Ivernia also had 30 seconds of fame in it. ??? B

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Cunardcoll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1226

posted 09-04-2001 08:43 AM

I remember the James Bond movie "The man with the Golden Gun" , in that movie the wreck of the Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong is a secret base.

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Rex
First Class Passenger
Member # 1113

posted 09-04-2001 09:35 AM

The Lady Eve (1941) - shots of the MAURETANIA (II) and the QUEEN MARY. The ship in the movie was called SS SOUTHERN QUEEN.

Romance on the High Seas (1948) also used the name "SOUTHERN QUEEN" for its fictional ship, but used exterior shots of one of the famed SANTA-class Grace Liners.

I think I may have mentioned this on another post, so slap me if I did...

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cruise guy
First Class Passenger
Member # 2381

posted 09-04-2001 08:55 PM

The 1930's (or 40's) musical "Luxury Liner" was filmed on art deco sets but real color footage of the Conti de Savioa was used to represent the ship at sea.
The "French Atlantic Affair" used Carnival's Festivale as the setting. The ships name was not changed, but in the mini-series the Festivale was a fictional French transatlantic liner belonging to the French-Atlantic Line. In the novel of the same name the ship was the QE2.
The Marx Brothers used a liner for one of their settings in the comedy "Monkey Business". I saw this many years ago, but if I remember correctly it was White Star's Homeric that was shown sailing across the screen several times.

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