When Time Ran Out [VHS]

When Time Ran Out [VHS]
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When Time Ran Out [VHS]
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Actor: Edward Albert, Jacqueline Bisset, Paul Newman, Red Buttons, William Holden
Director: James Goldstone
Producer: Al Gail
Producer: George E. Swink
Producer: Irwin Allen
Writer: Carl Foreman
Writer: Gordon Thomas
Writer: Max Morgan Witts
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 121 minutes
Release Date: 1994-07-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of When Time Ran Out [VHS]

Movie Review: "This thing's a powder keg!"
Summary: 3 Stars

Coming quite late in the cycle of producer Irwin Allen's series of disaster epics, WHEN TIME RAN OUT... (1980) has all the regular trappings of the genre: a star-studded cast, exotic locales, and lots of heart-pumping suspense. Frustratingly though, screenwriters Stirling Silliphant and Carl Foreman have made it almost too easily a re-tread of the earlier "Poseidon Adventure".

The inhabitants of a glamorous South Pacific island resort are jeopardised when a long-dormant volcano erupts with a vengeance, bringing in it's wake deadly fireballs, earthquakes and a tsunami. Oil-driller Hank Anderson (Paul Newman) leads a small group of survivors to safer, higher ground on the other side of the island...

Once you get past the extremely talky first 30 minutes, which establishes the characters (and a tepid love triangle between Newman, resort PR Jacqueline Bisset, and hotel magnate William Holden that never quite resolves itself), things really kick into high-gear. Many of Irwin Allen's "usual suspects" show up in this film including Red Buttons, Ernest Borgnine (again playing a hard-nosed cop) and wife Sheila Allen. Valentina Cortese co-stars (looking every bit as glamorous as when she starred in "The House on Telegraph Hill"); along with Burgess Meredith, Veronica Hamel, James Franciscus, Pat Morita and Alex Karras.

Movie Review: when time ran out
Summary: 5 Stars

this is an spectacular movie with a great all star cast like paul newman, jacqueline bisset, william holden, veronica hamel.....in a south pacific island's dormant volcano unexpectedly erupts in fury. among those imperiled by the carl foreman/stirling 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!.i recommended.

Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is a real sleeper - exciting, intrigue , good acting and romance. Amazing combination woven in a back drop of impending disaster. Great special effects. This movie really moves along - Paul Newman is his usual terrific and works well with William Holden. They combined for another great flick in the Towering Inferno - if you like this movie the Towering Inferno is a must.

Movie Review: Decent movie to watch.
Summary: 4 Stars

I think this movie is better than what I've heard. I remember watching it on t.v. a while back. The movie has a decent plot, and where the plot misses, there is a good cast. I have seen worse movies, and most of them were released not too long ago. Ironman was the most boring movie I've seen in sometime. Given the choice of this older movie, and Ironman, this movie wins hands down. If you are wondering if you should order this movie, or not would depend if you're a Paul Newman fan. I am, especially if it's a disaster flick like this, or Towering Inferno.

Movie Review: b moive b format
Summary: 2 Stars

any film buff will be happy with getting a movie on what ever format is still for sale,we would all like a blue ray copy of everything,but in the real world no chance.This then was the best copy of this movie on vhs at 141 mins,dvd cut to 109,as for the film rates two stars for full length,on a par with the 1980 film the island as why did they make it,no star looks happy in it,must have been the pay check.Story on an lsland when disaster hits is nothing new,but tv is so bad these days ok time filler,and is a bit of movie history
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Summary of When Time Ran Out [VHS]

When a volcano erupts on an island resort, an oilman (Newman) leads a small group of people to safety.
The disaster movie cycle of the 1970s had just about, well, run out when this afterthought of a volcano flick opened in 1980. It reunited producer Irwin Allen, the man behind the biggest disaster pictures of the era, with his stars from The Towering Inferno, Paul Newman and William Holden (with Ernest Borgnine and Red Buttons, from The Poseidon Adventure, tossed in for good measure). Newman is an oilman drilling on a tropical island, with a volcano smoking away in disconcerting proximity; Jacqueline Bisset is the woman with whom he had something in the past; Holden is rich. The supporting cast is a typical Irwin Allen soup, with James Franciscus heading a project to send of probe into the volcano's core (or something), Veronica Hamel and Barbara Carrera as women in his life, and Borgnine and Buttons in an elliptical subplot about a cop shadowing a white-collar criminal. That leaves plenty of room for the likes of Alex Karras, Edward Albert, Pat Morita, and a pair of former trapeze artists played by Burgess Meredith and Valentina Cortese. The special effects are notably poor, and even the Hawaiian exteriors seem drab. The movie stupefyingly banks its big climax on the survivors crossing a particular bridge, which is being destroyed by hot lava as they traverse it; the lengthy sequence looks suspiciously like a cost-cutting measure to save money on volcano effects. Newman looks pretty embarrassed to be on board, as he should. If When Time Ran Out. is awful, its value for a bad-movie night selection should not be underestimated. This DVD release is 109 minutes, thus shorter than the original release (121 minutes) and also missing extra footage added for TV broadcast and previous home-video releases. Hard to believe anybody will miss it. --Robert Horton

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