rollercoaster director james goldstone when time run out and with paul newman and william holden and edward albert and ernst borgnine and veronica hamel and red button and and jacqueline bisset and qualifies a just another irwin allen disaster movie . by this time and allen disaster movie have be nothing but disaster . while this one boast a terrific cast and when time run out amount to a tiresome bore . interestingly enough and this be irwin allen final theatrical feature film . the action occur on an island that suspiciously resemble a cross between of hawaii and a studio backlot set . a papier mâché volcano smolder ominously in the background for most of the film until it erupt . sadly and the carl foreman and stirling silliphant screenplay and base on gordon thomas and max morgan witt novel the day the world end and never erupts . oil man hank anderson ( paul newman ) warn tycoon shelby gilmore ( william holden ) and kay kirby ( jacqueline bisset ) and and everybody else book in holden luxury resort motel to clear out while the get good . bob spangler ( james franciscus ) claim that anderson doesn not know what he talk about . spangler insist that the volcano would not blow . not surprisingly and the volcano do blow and and gilmore along with a host of others escape to high ground after cross a rugged obstacle course . in one scene and they must traverse a rickety old bridge over a stream of molten lava . if you have see one disaster movie and you have see them all . this muddle epic bristle with cardboard character and predictable scripting ( by two really good writer ) and phony special effect . a for the title and allen should have alter it . time doesn not run out in when time run out and it drag out .