S.O.S. Titanic (1979)

Directed by

William Hale

Genre

disaster film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

2h 24m

Rated

12

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This TV movie follows three groups of passengers on the Titanic's maiden voyage: wealthy first-class travelers, a middle-class family, and immigrants in third class. It shows their different experiences before and during the ship's sinking in 1912.

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What happens

S.O.S. Titanic is a 1979 drama disaster television movie that depicts the doomed 1912 maiden voyage of RMS Titanic from the perspective of three distinct groups of passengers in first, second and third class. Produced by EMI Films, the script, written by James Costigan, was based at least in part on survivor Lawrence Beesley's book The Loss of The SS Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons, by One of the Survivors. The all star cast included David Janssen, Ian Holm, David Warner, Helen Mirren and Cloris Leachman. Directed by William Hale (credited as Billy Hale) with soundtrack by Howard Blake, it is the first Titanic film to be filmed and released in colour, not counting the 1964 musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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