SOS Titanic
SOS Titanic is a 1979 British-American television film directed by William Hale. The film was shot at Shepperton Studios in London with British funding and many British actors .
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April 1912: The Titanic, the largest ship in the world, is on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. While the passengers enjoy the trip, the Titanic repeatedly receives ice warnings from other ships. Nevertheless, Captain Smith decided to maintain the Titanic's course and speed. This decision turns out to be fatal: On the night of April 14, the luxury liner collides with an iceberg and sinks into the waters of the North Atlantic. 1,500 people lose their lives in the process.
To illustrate the drama of all three classes on the Titanic , three actions are told in parallel over the course of the film. In the 1st grade it is John Jacob Astor who travels to New York City with his young and pregnant wife , in the 2nd grade it is the university professor Lawrence Beesley who begins a romance with his colleague Leigh Goodwin, and in the 3rd grade it is the university professor Lawrence Beesley who begins a romance with colleague Leigh Goodwin The Irish immigrant Martin Gallagher falls in love with an unknown Irish beauty. Three fates and hopes leave Southampton for the USA and end on that fateful April 14, 1912, when the unsinkable luxury ship hits an iceberg and the desperate battle for the lifeboats begins.
reception
The film is seen as less technically successful and is limited more to historical facts than to the authenticity of the film set . The Titanic in this film is neither realistic nor reconstructed in scale and appearance. The furnishings of the backdrops used for the interiors largely corresponded to the 1930s. Some exterior shots lead to the conclusion that the film was partly shot on the Queen Mary (at one point the starboard wing of the navigation bridge can be clearly seen, which on the Queen Mary is supported on its own "tower"). Various shots of the sinking ship also resemble comparable sequences from the British Titanic film A Night to Remember from 1958, which was shot in black and white , which were obviously colored in for this TV film.
The lexicon of the international film wrote: “ In the description of the unlucky trip, a cautious catastrophe film that is able to entertain with believable characters, well-tended decorations and a professionally operated (albeit somewhat sterile) camera. "
The TV magazine TV Movie judged: “ Many-sided and detailed. "
Awards
- In 1980 the film was honored with an Emmy nomination: Best Editing
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- The $ 7 million television production was Titanic's first full color film.
- David Warner , who plays the historical character Lawrence Beesley in this film , played the fictional valet Spicer Lovejoy in James Cameron's Titanic film .
- The future Oscar winner Helen Mirren plays a 1st class stewardess in SOS Titanic .
- The original version of the film was 140 minutes long and tells the story in flashbacks.
- For the international markets the film was shortened to 102 minutes. This version even made it to the cinema in Europe.
- There is a mistake in the film: April 12, 1912 is displayed as the date for the shipwreck, but the Titanic collided with the iceberg on April 14, 1912.
DVD release
The company Schrödermedia published SOS Titanic on 10 January 2019 Germany for the first time on DVD.
Web links
- SOS Titanic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ SOS Titanic. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 11, 2016 .