S.O.S. Titanic

S.O.S. Titanic

S.O.S. Titanic
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Actor: Cloris Leachman, David Janssen, David Warner, Ian Holm, Susan Saint James
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment

Movie Reviews of S.O.S. Titanic

Movie Review: It Is Edited!
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie conveys the feel of ocean travel more than any of the others, including A Night To Remember, which was about the most British feeling movie.

S.O.S. Titanic gives more spotlight to steerage than any of the others, and endless scenes that are absent of music, other than what would have been the tunes of the time, also makes this one effective.

But scenes are cut! Scenes removed are:

*The opening scene of the Carpathian rescue (several of these scenes are spliced onto the end)
*The delightful sauna scene -- "I'll give you, 'Sheharrazade'!"
*Yes, the boot shine lads are deleted!
*Mrs. Harris' fall down the stairs and her standing ovation when she next enters with a cast on her arm (for the record, this did indeed happen, her fall and the cast. I don't know about the ovation).

*The steerage sing along of "Isn't she grand, boys? Isn't she grand?"

*Beesley observes the snoozing librarian and quips "there I sit thirty or forty years on."

*When Beesley jumps to the lifeboat, Fred Barrett asks him why he has his night clothes still with him in his hand, and Beesley laughingly replied "I don't know. I don't know."

*The sinking was longer (I recorded it off onto an audiotape years ago and still have it)

*Mrs. Astor's weeping scene was longer. It's cut here.

Thankfully we do get to see young Mr. Long and his companion, I believe, Jack Thayer, who had both been spying on the ladies sauna, when they jump off the ship.

We also see our boot shine lads debating prayer. "YOu a Catholic? Me neither. What difference does it make now?"

It seems like there was also a longer stretch of a steerage dance that was removed.

The movie is inaccurate in stating that Fireman Fred Barrett perished. It was Fred Barrett who was manning the lifeboat that Laurence Beesley leapt into.

If ever the complete version is released, I would be very interested in obtaining it. As it is, it had been so long since I had seen this movie, I didnt care.

The re-editing job was done wrong or the original movie was done wrong, as we see Helen Mirren observe Ian Holm as he enters the lifeboat, she is already aboard, then we get Mirren talking to architect Thomas Andrews.

It really does look like there has been a severe re-editing job. The scenes of the overturned lifeboats should have occurred after the ship sank, not just before. This is also when David Warner is trying to bring someone into their lifeboat.

For some reason, this is pieced together as taking place just before the sinking.

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