The Poseidon Adventure
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Mike Rogo: You weren't on the streets that long! How many guys did you know! Do you realise how slim even one of those characters is on this boat.
Linda Rogo: You don't have to shout.
Mike Rogo: I said do you realise...
Linda Rogo: I heard what you said.

Mrs. Belle Rosen: You see, Mr. Scott? In the water I'm a very skinny lady.

Linda Rogo: He only invited us because you're a Detective Lieutenant. Why don't you just go without me.
Mike Rogo: And what am I supposed to do at midnight? Kiss the Captain?
Linda Rogo: Don't knock it.

Mr. Manny Rosen: I want to stay with her a little longer.
Reverend Frank Scott: You've got one minute.

Mike Rogo: You! Preacher! You lyin', murderin', son of a bitch! You took from me the one thing I loved in the whole world! My Linda.

Mrs. Belle Rosen: Mr. Scott, a fat woman like me cannot climb.

Reverend Frank Scott: Give her your shirt.
Mike Rogo: My shirt?
Linda Rogo: Come on.
Mike Rogo: Linda, next time you put something on, like I told you to put on.

Reverend Frank Scott: Please GOD not this woman.

Reverend Frank Scott: Through the kitchens and go deeper and deeper in the ship till we reach the hull. That way.
Mike Rogo: And you just kick out the botton and we swim ashore, huh?
Linda Rogo: Or maybe you could yell 'This is the police' and it'll open right up.
Mike Rogo: Don't be a smartass.

Linda Rogo: Jesus Christ! What happened?
Reverend Frank Scott: We've turned over.

Linda Rogo: Where the Hell have you been?
Mike Rogo: What do ya think? Flyin' around on my ass.

Robin Shelby: I'm sorry Mrs. Rosen, I didn't mean it to sound like that.
Mrs. Belle Rosen: What, I miss something?
Robin Shelby: When I said I helped my dad pull in a 600 pound swordfish. I didn't mean that I thought you weighed that much.
Mrs. Belle Rosen: All that's going on and THAT'S what you're worried about?
Robin Shelby: Sure, what else?
Mrs. Belle Rosen: You're a good boy.
Robin Shelby: Tell my sister.

Nurse Gina Rowe: They're suppositories Mr Rogo. You don't swallow them.
Mike Rogo: Then what the hell do you do with them?
Linda Rogo: For Christ's sake! I know what to do with suppositories. Just get them outta here.

Linda Rogo: Shut up! Shut up! C'mon get up this goddamned ramp.
James Martin: Nobody can be as composed as you are Mrs Rogo.

Mike Rogo: Ya had a lotta guts, lady... a lotta guts.

Audio problem: Just before midnight when the band is playing "Morning After" the camera pans out for a wide shot of the dance floor - the dancers are dancing MUCH too fast for such a slow song - and you do still hear the song.

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Trivia: Even though Jack Albertson and Shelley Winters played the happily married couple, Albertson strongly disliked working with Winters and even said, "The happiest moment making the movie for me was when she died."

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Answer: He's the representative of the owner of the ship.

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