[Movie] Last Breath + Jonah and the Whale

Last Breath: Last Breath is a gripping, true-story thriller about Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), a saturation diver whose umbilical cord--supplying oxygen, heat, and communication--is severed 300 feet deep in the North Sea after a ship malfunction. With only 10 minutes of emergency air, he is trapped in darkness while crewmates David Yuasa (Simu Liu) and Duncan Allcock (Woody Harrelson) race against time to rescue him.

About the movie:

• Runtime: 1h 33m
• Year: 2025
• PG-13
• Starring: Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole
• Director: Alex Parkinson
• Trailer: Last Breath

Jonah and the Whale: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968) is a classic ABC sci-fi series created by Irwin Allen, following the adventures of Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Captain Lee Crane (David Hedison) aboard the advanced nuclear submarine Seaview. It features Cold War espionage, sea monsters, and aliens, mixing serious drama with campy sci-fi over its 110-episode run.

In the first color episode, "Jonah and the Whale" (Season 2, Episode 1), Admiral Nelson and Russian scientist Katya Markhova (Gia Scala) are trapped in a diving bell swallowed by a massive sperm whale. With a dwindling oxygen supply and an emergency escape charge likely to kill anyone trying to save them, Crane mounts a dangerous, high-stakes rescue mission into the creature's mouth.

About the episode:

• Runtime: 47m
• Year: 1965
• Unrated
• Starring: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Gia Scala
• Director: Sobey Martin
• Watch: Jonah and the Whale

This meetup will consist of a live viewing, accompanied by discussion and analysis.

Extracts:

• "Do you know, gentlemen, that the digestive organs of the whale are so inscrutably constructed by Divine Providence, that it is quite impossible for him to completely digest even a man's arm? And he knows it too. So that what you take for the White Whale's malice is only his awkwardness. For he never means to swallow a single limb; he only thinks to terrify by feints. But sometimes he is like the old juggling fellow, formerly a patient of mine in Ceylon, that making believe swallow jack-knives, once upon a time let one drop into him in good earnest, and there it stayed for a twelvemonth or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in small tacks, d'ye see?" (Moby-Dick, 100)

This meetup is part of the series In the Belly of the Whale.