In the mid-1970s, the park was slated to be torn down, but was saved from total oblivion by having its roller coaster featured in at least two Hollywood disaster films. One was 1977's ""Rollercoaster"", starring George Segal, Henry Fonda, and Timothy Bottoms, which featured Ocean View Amusement Park as one of many around the nation which were being targeted by a mad terrorist bomber (Bottoms). The other film was "The Death Of Ocean View Park", a "Playboy" production, starring Mike Connors ("Mannix"), Diana Canova and Martin Landau, in which the actual destruction of the coaster served as the climax of the film.