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Price: $114.79 Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381067729
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 09, 2002
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 73877
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 1979
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Editorial Review:
Description:
The saga of the Titanic has captured the world's imagination for almost a century. Its story of greed, loss and survival remains as fascinating today as it did on that fateful, moonless night in April, 1912. Long before James Cameron's blockbuster "Titanic," "S.O.S. Titanic" meticulously recreated the world's most lavish luxury liner and its sumptuous, gala atmosphere during the four-day journey leading to the disaster. The all-star cast includes Harry Andrews as Captain Smith, Cloris Leachman as the unsinkable Molly Brown, Susan Saint James, Ian Holm, Helen Mirren and David Warner.
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If, somehow, the three and a quarter hours of on-ship intrigue and spectacular suffering of James Cameron's Oscar-winning Titanic wasn't enough for you, here's a TV movie that treads much the same water, though without the bombast of Cameron's epic. S.O.S. Titanic boasts a good-by-TV-standards cast--David Janssen, Susan St. James, Cloris Leachman, David Warner (who booked passage a second time, in Cameron's version), and early appearances by such esteemed performers as Ian Holm and Helen Mirren. It follows the voyage of the ship in a day-by-day diary through the eyes of a number of the passengers and crew members until the fateful night, then provides a brief denouement as the survivors come to terms with what has happened to them.
A number of budding romances are explored in this film, suggesting the Titanic was the original Love Boat. Janssen, in a subplot quaint by today's standards, plays a wealthy man who has become something of a pariah because he has divorced and remarried a younger woman. Warner and St. James play prim academics who awkwardly stumble into a friendship; it's intriguing until their final scene together, in which they serve as an ersatz Greek chorus ludicrously commenting on the outcome. There are relationships burgeoning down in steerage, as well, where the hearty poor Irish kick up a party atmosphere just as they did, again, in Cameron's version. Leachman chews scenery as the Unsinkable Molly Brown; Holm (with a more youthful voice that sounds as if the soundtrack is being played too fast) is the callous owner of the ship, and Mirren is an Irish maid observing key moments in the saga.
The melodrama here isn't as purple as in Cameron's film, and the sundry relationships are built and connected intelligently. More impressively, a lot of the mayhem behind the sinking is nearly as effective as the celebrated megaflick on a fraction of the budget. The best news is, it's a full 90 minutes shorter than Cameron's film. --David Kronke
Average Rating: 
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S.O.S. Titanic was actually the first Titanic movie I saw as a child in the 80's on TBS. It wet my appetite and made me a Titanic buff for life. It was made in 1979, so the special effects and production have come a long way since then. The movie is far too quiet and calm to accurately portray what happened that April night in 1912. For a collector like me, this is a nice addition to have. But, for someone wanting a thrilling, modern-day version, get the famous James Cameron version or the 1997 George ... Read More
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Many of us surely recall watching this (relatively) interesting adaptation of the Titanic story on TV when it first aired in 1979 on ABC. I watched in my college dorm.
THIS IS NOT THAT MOVIE.
The DVD adaptation is the European theatrical edit of the movie, which runs a good 45 minutes shorter and has edited out some of the most interesting scenes. Based on a book by one of the survivors, what made the TV adaptation so compelling was the time it spent in anecdotes about the real ... Read More
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I watched this movie the first time a.b.c. ran it in 1979 at the age of 12 and really liked it. I was glad to find it on DVD and bought it. I didn't notice the running time had been cut, because this was a 3 hour movie(2 hours and 35 min. without ads) and this one is cut and missing many important scenes. SKIP IT AND WAIT FOR THE UNCUT VERSION!!!!!!
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This version of the Titanic movie saga that has taken the world by storm is one that doesn't take itself too seriously. Instead of focussing on the negatives such a snobbiness and class differences (which they save for a later time when the real tragedy occurs) it focusses on the funny things like Molly Brown's reluctance to be called Maggie, her 'unwillingness' to dance with a perfect stranger, and many other little things running throughout the movie which make you chuckle.
And for those who are ... Read More
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I saw this movie many years ago on TV and rather liked it. Luckily, I taped it because when I bought the VHS version of it, many scenes had been cut. I read that the DVD is the same way. If and when the complete movie is ever put onto DVD, I will happily buy it. I thought the movie was pretty well done. No Titanic movie will ever be perfect but this one wasn't bad. Cloris Leachman's portrayal of Molly Brown is a bit over the top - more of a caricature. I particularly liked that some more attention ... Read More
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