Gray Lady Down
1978 · Movie · PG · 111 min · ★ 6.4 · 58% critics
After a collision with a cargo ship, a nuclear submarine sinks off the Connecticut coast and comes to rest in a dangerously unstable position. With the crew trapped underwater and time running short, the navy launches a risky rescue mission built around an experimental deep-sea vehicle.
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Details
- Years
- 1978
- Release date
- 1978-03-10
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Critic score
- 58/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (88 votes)
About
If you enjoy 1970s disaster movies like Airport or The Towering Inferno, this offers a contained underwater survival story with steady tension; Not for you if you want fast action, big spectacle, or rich character drama.
Pros: tense rescue premise; realistic gadget angle; solid disaster-movie setup | Cons: slow pacing; stiff performances; uneven effects
Themes
- rescue
- drowning
- based on novel or book
- submarine
- disaster
- underwater
- disaster movie
- collision
Cast & crew
Charlton Heston
as Captain Paul Blanchard
David Carradine
as Captain Gates
Stacy Keach
as Captain Bennett
Ned Beatty
as Mickey
Stephen McHattie
as Murphy
Ronny Cox
as Commander Samuelson
Dorian Harewood
as Fowler
Rosemary Forsyth
as Vickie Blanchard
Hilly Hicks
as Page
Charles Cioffi
as Admiral Barnes
Directed by David Greene