Lesson to be learned here: Let the old drunken bitch drown and stick with the hot young pussy instead.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

That could also mean he spent 25 years too long with her. Staying together is not necessarily a good thing.

It's what you do when you love someone and you've spent 25 years with them.

I know who I would have savedand it certainly wouldn't have been the horrible Gardiner.

I think Omega Man, was different, because you expected him to win. Honestly, when Mathias threw the spear, I was expecting him to throw it at Lisa, because he was calling her and she appeared to be walking towards him. Lots of people I've showed the film too also thought the same thing, like he was going to kill Lisa because she took off with Neville.
In Poseidon Adventure, you got a sense of what Hackman was going to do before he did it. In Earthquake, it never actually showed Heston dying, but it was implied. Never saw Von Ryan's Express.

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If it was Ava Gardner wouldnt you guys try to save her too?
You want to play the game, you'd better know the rules, love.
-Harry Callahan

VERY excellent. Because when you think of the other 70s disaster movies, Towering Inferno or Poseidon Adventure, if any of those men could've died trying to saving their wive/girlfriends, if they had that opportunity to try to save them, you know they would without any regard to their own lives either.

I think it's an amazing ending for the exact same reasons. Besides women would have hated the idea that he could leave his wife for a much younger woman -AND- the wife would die leaving him free and clear to start fresh with a new family and likely inherit the remnants of his wife's family business.
Instead we get a shocking ending of the hero trying to salvage some of his morality to save his estranged wife and gasp fail.
Excellent ending in my humble opinion.
"El riesgo vive siempre!"

I know - it was a shame he died trying to save that boozy loudmouth. I felt bad for Denise - I could feel her pain. I was glad her son opened his eyes at the end and was going to be ok. Why anybody would WANT to die in a film is beyond me.

You need to look closer under that crappy housecoat Ava was wearing. She had a hell of a rack under there and the rest was shapely too. Give he some non-witch makeup and a better hairstyle and she'd look quite hot.

"I actually felt sorry for Remy throughout the movie."
You were the only one. She was an ugly hag with a dried up old cooch. No one liked her.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

Not to mention "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" when at the end he sets off the doomsday bomb.

One of his best: "El Cid"

I saw this again a while back and was surprised by the ending scene because I remembered it as just his wife fell in and died, I didn't remember him going after her. I liked that ending, it's the way it should've been.

Heston was in a bunch of films in the '70s where his character dies.
Omega Man - dead
Soylent Green - dead (or at least his death is alluded to)
Earthquake - dead
Midway - dead
Are there any others?
The question isn't how many films when he dies - it's more like how many does he actually live in the end? Since he was such a dramatic, larger-than-life persona he more often than not had to die or be wounded in the end.
To add to your list:
Dies:
Call of the Wild
Antony and Cleopatra
Crossed Swords
Wounded badly:
Skyjacked
The Last Hard Men (if this film had been a hit do you think there would have been a porno version with the same title)
Two Minute Warning (I think or maybe I'm thinking of John Cassavetes' character)

Wow, do you sound like an angry bitter woman. His wife was a faker and a pill popper just trying to get attention, and Heston had not cheated on her till that very day. He felt guilt over Bujold's husband dying, he felt guilt over Remy, and he basically died because of the guilt others placed on him.
So, he's supposed to stay with this bitter old pill popper so she can ruin his life? As he stated in the film, their whole marriage was a bribe.

I was rooting for Heston to die. The mistress Denise could've been his daughter.
Heston dying was the best thing to happen to her and her kid.
Remy couldn't be pryed from his cold dying hands.

Heston was in a bunch of films in the '70s where his character dies.
Omega Man - dead
Soylent Green - dead (or at least his death is alluded to)
Earthquake - dead
Midway - dead
Are there any others?
Beneath the Planet of the Apes

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I disagree. It was actually a pretty sad and shocking ending. It showed that no matter what had happened in the past, he still had feelings for his wife. I actually felt sorry for Remy throughout the movie. I'm sure there were events that caused her to be the way she was. Two scenes that really made her tragic were when Stuart drops her off at the evacuation site in the middle of the devastation and drives off to find Denise. Second when he drills into the parking garage and Denise runs to him and jumps on him, the look on Remy's says "I'm done with him". Remember when they are climbing out of the garage, Remy pulls away from him when he offers to help her. Of course he had already lifted his mistress and her son out to safety.

I totally disagree. I saw the film first run the first week it was released and the ending was a complete shock. If Heston had let his wife die that would have been predicatable. I am so pleased that he stuck to his guns.
What's intereting is that Heston would head another all star cast in the second Sensurround film, Midway. He character dies in that too.

Considering what he must have known about Los Angeles' future as depicted in
The Omega Man
, he may have decided he didn't want to stick around.

Charleton Heston could divide the entire red sea and stop an army of armed monkeys and apes yet he couldn't stop a simple earthquake in downtown Los Angelis