Typical disaster movie. We meet the characters who aren't so much real people as they are stereotypes — the husband (Christopher Lee) who cares for everyone but ignores his wife (Lee Grant), the old friends (Joseph Cotten and Olivia de Havilland) who are in love. The little girl who is injured badly, the doctor who doesn't tell anyone he's actually a veterinarian. I didn't see enough of any of them to really care about them. Jimmy Stewart, which is why I watched the movie, had a brief role that involved zero acting. Jack Lemmon was the hero, but seemed an odd choice to play the role. All these movies fit the same mold and became totally interchangeable.