S.O.S. Titanic

If you want a technical account of the titanic sinking then watch "A Night to Remember". If you want a romantic version of the sinking then watch Cameron's Titanic.

The opulent ocean liner Titanic hits an iceberg in the freezing cold ocean and slowly sinks into the sea taking more than half the crew and passengers with her.Director Billy Hale provides a flavorsome period atmosphere, keeps excess goopy sentiment in check, and maintains a steady pace throughout.

A TV movie from 1979 tracing the events of that fateful April night from over a hundred years ago. Following the actual events & people who participated in the infamous iceberg crash, we get the boilerplate of what happened (even though there were a couple of films in the 50's, A Night to Remember & Titanic, which this film also draws from) w/middling to slight returns since we now have the '97 James Cameron version which seems to be the textbook account of the tragedy.

This film is an extremely atmospheric telling of the sinking of the Titanic. It used mainly real passengers to tell the story through, and as a result isn't too bad a production.

Just before the Titanic hits the iceburg, the officer of the watch orders "hard a starboard. The crewman on the wheel turns it to "Port"...

Shot at Shepperton on a TV budget. Numerous familiar British faces, including a relatively young Helen Mirren, flit in and out of this good, straightforward account of the Titanic disaster along with several Irish actors below stairs, including a remarkably young and dashing Gerard McSorley (who I first encountered nearly twenty years later in an episode of 'Father Ted') as the nearest equivalent in this version to Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 epic.

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First of all, ANY Titanic film is going to be crushed by Cameron's version of this disaster! Not for its story line, but for its incredible attention to detail and its use of special effects.