The Last Voyage was a neat little thriller in its time, a precursor to The Poseidon Adventure and a dozen less-well-known disaster movies of a dozen years later, with the action pitched on a more personal level. The acting is good enough, and the direction by Stone is competent, though he lacks inspiration -- the one truly great shot in the movie comes up so abruptly, and is so effective when it comes up, and is so uncharacteristic of the rest of the movie that it comes as a shock to the viewer, and is all the more effective for it. The script has problems that aren't helped by Dorothy Malone's shaky acting in a role that she seems to have been uncomfortable with, but the sheer energy of the performances, the editing, and the direction help audiences get past those deficiencies. They aren't quite enough to get us past a narration that should have never had been put onto the audio track in the first place, but absent that misjudgment by the makers, this is a movie that holds up remarkably well across four decades, and far better (and in less campy fashion) than some of its 70's-era descendants, with good performances by George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, and Woody Strode (in one of the best roles of his career).