Rent When Time Ran Out (1980)
2.4 of 5 from 57 ratings
1h 45min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A South Pacific island's dormant volcano unexpectedly erupts in fury. Among those imperiled by the Carl Foreman/Stirling Silliphant script are wildcat oil driller Paul Newman, hotel baron William Holden and Jacqueline Bisset, 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!
- Actors:
- Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons, Barbara Carrera, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Alex Karras, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Borgnine
- Directors:
- James Goldstone
- Others:
- Paul Zastupnevich
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
- The Film Highlights of 1980, Top 10 Films By Year
- Countries:
- Canada
More like When Time Ran Out
Found in these customers lists
284 films by johns-list
Reviews (1) of When Time Ran Out
END OF THE LINE - When Time Ran Out review by Frank Talker™
Aptly-named movie that came out at the end of the Hollywood disaster-movie cycle of the 1970s.
An all-too-absurd plot includes a research facility built right over the crater of an active volcano; coupled with a holiday resort constructed not too far from that! This mind-boggling setup hampers what could have been a fun film.
The final nail in the coffin for these increasingly-disastrous disaster films was the movie parody of Airplane (1980); making anyone financing such a movie a brave backer, indeed, since they would then have to run the very real risk of being completely laughed-off the screen.
This movie is only really watchable because of the star power and charisma of the leading players - particularly a well-paired Jacqueline BISSET and Paul NEWMAN. And the weakness of the special effects makes it all-too-likely that most of the movie's budget was spent on the stars.
Worst of all, too many good-looking women get killed in this movie to make it any more than an inadequate time-passer - you simply cannot kill-off Barbara CARRERA and get away with it, you simply can't!
0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.