4 oscar winner and karl malden and sally field and shirley jones and michael caine . great character actor telly savalas and peter boyle . 1 hour 54 minute of sheer tedium and melodrama and horrible acting and a mess of a script and and a sink feeling of good lord and what be they think . irwin allen be just try to cash in on the popularity of the original classic disaster film with a grade d minus script and the actor be obviously just in it for the paycheck as well and . the horror and the horror . how insane be the character that caine and savalas and malden and field be play . go into a potentially deadly sink ship that 1. on fire 2. hot from steam 3. slippery from water and oil and 4. boiler that be explode every 5 minute and etc . and all for the love of money . greed . 5. they have very little equipment and not even a pair of glove or work boot in sight and much less a grappling hook and rope and etc . stupidity . what be they think . peter boyle overact so much that i just want to smack him . stop it . and what the deal with the bad toupee . also and there be no way you can believe his character be a ww2 veteran . caine and field and malden find all that gold and money and they be happy whoopee . be rich . ( we may not live to spend it and but hey . ) and yee haw and it the great character actor slim pickens . survivor galore . jack warden and shirley knight and too . the final dramatic sub plot about that scary plutonium never really go anywhere and it like they forget and sort of . lot of hole in the script . this film have an illness that the strong pill couldn not cure . i be surprise alan j. smithee name wasn not on the script and i would be embarrass to have pen this one . oh the insanity and oh the humanity . oy vey . the horror and the horror . it like a bad two hour tv movie . at least the set be make from recycled material from the first movie . the script need to be on the compost heap .