Fair point. As a straight disaster film, the box office would probably have not been a huge. As far as the look of the ship and the "disaster" I felt the movie was spot on.
A Night To Remember (1958)....
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Irony alert... I've just realized that I can't recall if I've ever seen A Night to Remember. 
Right. Wasn't Catherine Zeta-Jones in that, too?
I think I watched it, but honestly can't remember.
I remember liking "S.O.S Titanic" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.S._Titanic) when I was much younger. It's been forever since I've seen it at this point, and I'm not sure it would hold up well. Certainly it doesn't have the same level of authenticity as Cameron's film. It does, however, have David Warner.
Oddly enough I picked up the blu ray myself a few weeks ago. It's a true classic, and does a very fine telling of the story.
Interestingly, the drunken cook (who despite all the odds survived in the water for hours), was also portrayed (briefly) in Cameron's Titanic clinging to the stern railing near Jack and Rose.
Interestingly, the drunken cook (who despite all the odds survived in the water for hours), was also portrayed (briefly) in Cameron's Titanic clinging to the stern railing near Jack and Rose.
It holds up fine. The only thing about that version that confuses me is the DVD is 1 hour and 45 minutes. I hear that the original airing (Which I don't remember if I saw or not, I was only nine then) is actually a four hour miniseries similar to the 1996 version. If that's true, why didn't they release the full version? Rights issues? What?
That's the 1996 version I mention above. It stars Marilou Henner as Molly Brown and features Catherine Zeta Jones and an actor whose name I don't recall as fictional characters in a romance similar to Jack and Rose.
I don't know about four hours (with commercials, perhaps), but a quick search suggests that you're right that they haven't released the full version, at least not on DVD. That's a pity.
The 1-hour-45-minute version is probably the edit for theatrical release overseas. Many American TV-movies and cut-down miniseries were distributed internationally for showing in cinemas. As for why the full version isn't available on DVD, your guess is as good as mine.
"At least not on DVD"? Does that mean it's out on Blue Ray? A google search turned up nothing.
Don't see any of the animated movies... those are scarring...
I assume you mean a few years earlier? A Night to Remember was released in 1958.
And yet, for all the ballyhoo about Cameron's Titanic striving to be historically accurate, it's chock-full of anachronisms.
Great music score by John Barry, good special effects, silly plot.Nobody has mentioned "Raise the Titanic" yet??
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Nobody has mentioned "Raise the Titanic" yet??
But that film is not really about the Titanic disaster.
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