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Director:
Writer:
James Costigan (writer)
Release Date:
23 September 1979 (USA) more
Plot:
The Titanic disaster is depicted, primarily as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. more
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SOS Titanic Was Not THAT Bad! more (23 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Janssen | ... | John Jacob Astor |
 | Cloris Leachman | ... | Margaret 'Molly' Brown |
 | Susan Saint James | ... | Leigh Goodwin |
| David Warner | ... | Laurence Beasley |
 | Ian Holm | ... | Joseph Bruce Ismay |
 | Helen Mirren | ... | Stewardess Mary Sloan |
| Harry Andrews | ... | Capt. Edward John Smith |
| Beverly Ross | ... | Madeline Astor |
| David Battley | ... | Chief Boot Cleaner S. Stebbing |
| Ed Bishop | ... | Henry Harris |
| Tony Caunter | ... | Chief Officer Henry Wilde |
| Nicholas Davies | ... | Lift Attendant Alfie King |
| Matthew Guinness | ... | Father Thomas Byles |
| Jerry Houser | ... | Daniel Marvin |
| Victor Langley | ... | Band Leader Wallace Hartley |
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Runtime:
180 min (including commercials) | USA:102 min (DVD version)
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Color (Technicolor)
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Certification:
UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12
Filming Locations:
RMS Queen Mary - 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California, USA more
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Many scenes were filmed on board or around the famous RMS Queen Mary. more
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Factual errors: The Titanic's distress rockets were actually fired singly, not two at a time as depicted. more
Movie Connections:
Version of A Night to Remember (1958) more
Soundtrack:
I'm Falling In Love With Someone more
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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. When this movie was made(1979)there was still so many mysteries about the sinking. Granted, the creativity is strained and the DVD version is hideously chopped and edited poorly, but the television version (I still have a tape of it from ABC when it aired again in 1981) is much clearer and the characters are not so 'rushed' through the plot. I do agree that Jansen did a sloppy job of playing Astor, though. Seemed like he always wanted to be somewhere else, however in the television version many of his scenes were redone and he sounds much better. This show marked my beginning with a fascination for the Titanic. I later met survivors in 1987 and for that, I love this movie. It's too bad the television version is not on DVD...it's much, much better.