What a disaster...

"When Time Ran Out..." (1980)

What goes wrong: A brand-new luxury resort and an oil-drilling operation on a small Pacific outpost are jeopardized when a long-dormant volcano wakes up on the wrong side of the island.

Who the movie blames: Profiteers who prefer not to alarm their guests or employees by evacuating them in the face of certain doom.

The real disaster: The film evokes laughter from the start, thanks to visual effects that seem borrowed from an episode of “The Thunderbirds” and a never-ending finale in which the all-star cast struggles to ferry children and the elderly across a collapsing bridge on a Hollywood sound stage. A movie so bad it ended the '70s disaster movie trend and the career of director Irwin Allen. It also became the one film in his long career that Paul Newman said he regretted making.