I sort of dimly recall that that movie existed, but I don't think I ever saw it. The cast appears to be pretty heavy on "actors who used to have an important series role but that money's running out and they're now looking for work". It's like it wanted to be Airport or The Towering Inferno, but on a TV budget.
Two things I noticed, looking at his list of credits:
I never heard of that one. I notice it was directed by Jud Taylor, who directed five third-season episodes. And I like Carol Lynley from The Poseidon Adventure.
Fun fact: Carol Lynley couldn't do her own singing in The Poseidon Adventure, so she lip-synced to a playback track by Renee Armand. Renee showed up for the recording session looking very hip in white hotpants, fashion boots, and an orange turtleneck. And she was easily beautiful enough to be a movie star herself. The film's costume designer saw her, probably on the lot at some point, and closely copied the outfit for Lynley in the movie.
Um, give me a second. Okay: John Crawford (Commissioner Ferris, The Galileo Seven) played the Chief Engineer in The Poseidon Adventure. He was also on Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invisible Man, The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, and Knight Rider. Because he was on every TV show they had in those days.
If you go back in the thread, I posted screen grabs from those eps. Marianna Hill was also in I, Robot. Malachi Throne is also in Cold Hands...Over the last two nights I watched a couple episodes of The Outer Limits from 1964, "I, Robot" with Leonard Nimoy and "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" with William Shatner. They aired on September 26th and November 14th respectively.
Nimoy plays a reporter who is covering a sentient robot accused of murdering its creator. He also helps get an attorney to defend the robot in the subsequent hearing. John Hoyt appears as a witness at the hearing, so he worked with Nimoy a couple of times that year. When the episode was remade in the 90s, Nimoy played the lawyer. (Nimoy's son Adam directed the remake.)
In Shatner's episode, he plays an astronaut who's just returned from a mission to Venus and begins feeling cold all the time. Malachi Throne plays Shatner's doctor who's at a loss to explain what's happening to him. Star Trek III's James B. Sikking plays a botanist, and Lawrence Montaigne appears as a construction worker (I missed Montaigne in the episode, but he is credited.) At one point Shatner's character gives a speech to his wife about traveling to new worlds to find new life, and his next planned mission is to Mars as a part of "Project Vulcan."
It made me realize how common it must've been for jobbing actors in the 60s to constantly run into each other on different jobs as they went from one series to another. And of course on November 24th's episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Shatner and Nimoy would work together for the first time in "The Project Strigas Affair."
It also happens quite a bit when directors serve as their own casting agents. Or they seem to.Charles Napier alone was a good-luck charm for at least two American directors.
