Titanic (1996) (TV)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Robert Lieberman

Writers (WGA):

Ross LaManna (written by) and
Joyce Eliason (written by)

Release Date:

17 November 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | History | Romance

Tagline:

They all said she was unsinkable. When she sank, it was unthinkable.

Plot:

The tale of the famous Titanic passenger liner that claimed to be unsinkable. This claim was proved...

Plot Keywords:

Titanic | Iceberg | Survival | Beautiful Woman | Two Part TV Movie

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Peter Gallagher	...	Wynn Park
George C. Scott	...	Captain Edward J. Smith
Catherine Zeta-Jones	...	Isabella Paradine (as Catherine Zeta Jones)
Eva Marie Saint	...	Hazel Foley
Tim Curry	...	Simon Doonan
Roger Rees	...	J. Bruce Ismay
Harley Jane Kozak	...	Bess Allison
Marilu Henner	...	Molly Brown
Mike Doyle	...	Jamie Perse
Sonsee Neu	...	Aase Ludvigsen (as Sonsee Ahray)
Felicity Waterman	...	Alice Cleaver
Malcolm Stewart	...	First Officer William Murdoch
Kevin McNulty	...	Second Officer Charles Lightoller
Kavan Smith	...	Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
Terence Kelly	...	Captain Arthur Henry Rostron (as Terrence Kelly)

Runtime:

173 min | Finland:163 min (DVD)

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Hollywood Digital)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

UK:PG | Greece:K-13 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-11 | USA:PG-13 | Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

American Zoetrope

Trivia:

This is the first Titanic movie to show the ship splitting in two.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Mr. Dickie says he saw Mary Pickford in a "moving picture" at a fair, in a box that he put his eye to. The Kinetoscope, which he is describing had been superseded by projection in the eighteen-nineties. Cinemas as nickelodeons were pervasive by 1912, so that movies were no longer a mysterious innovation that passengers on the Titanic would not have heard of.

Quotes:

Captain Stanley Lord: [Captain Lord is asleep on the chart room table and the phone rings next to his head, startling him awake]
[annoyed]
Captain Stanley Lord: What do you want?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Boarding: The People of 'The Terminal' (2004) (V)

Sentimental slush, wooden acting

What a disappointment. So much like the Cameron version that it is a mystery why they bothered to produce it at all. Similar slushy-romance story line about fictional characters, but different ones this time.

No feelings of fear or horror were induced in me it is kind of anodyne, kind of vanilla really despite two men being shot dead (I don't think this really happened, by the way) and a lot of running about. I didn't feel anything for any of the characters. There was so much wooden acting I think Pinnochio might have been in there somewhere. Well, the cast were getting splinters off one another. Lots of staring into space and also lots of corny dialogue - yuk!

The computer generated shots were not a patch on Cameron's - honestly, what on earth was the point of doing this film?