Titanic
by Jean Negulesco
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Actor: Audrey Dalton, Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Thelma RitterDirector: Jean Negulesco
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
Editor: Louis R. Loeffler
Producer: Charles Brackett
Writer: Charles Brackett
Writer: Richard L. Breen
Writer: Walter Reisch
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Titanic
Movie Review: Barbara Stanwyck, in Edwardian costumes, stars in tense Titanic drama
Summary: 4 Stars
With the recent passing of the final surviving passenger on the Titanic, Millvina Dean, it seems quite timely for me to be reviewing the 1953 film version starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Wagner.
Directed by Jean Negulesco, Twentieth Century-Fox's TITANIC was praised for it's innovative special effects (including some very impressive miniature work) and earned an Academy Award for 'Best Screenplay'. While the story doesn't focus on real characters on the ship, preferring to create new ones to paint the various dramas onboard, it does feature genuine characters like John Jacob Astor and his young wife Madeleine (William Johnstone and Frances Bergen), and the Strausses (Roy Gordon and Helen Van Tuyl) in small peripheral roles.
TITANIC focuses on Richard and Julia Sturges (Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck), a married couple in crisis. Sick of their empty, shallow life in Europe, Julia has decided to take her children, teenage Annette (Audrey Dalton) and young Norman (Harper Carter) back to her family in America, with or without the blessing of Richard who'd rather see Annette married into the European aristocracy.
Subplots include Annette's tender shipboard romance with collegiate bachelor Giff Rogers (Robert Wagner), and a never-ending poker game with brash Montana oil heiress Maude Young (Thelma Ritter), a character that is, for all intents and purposes, based on the "unsinkable" Molly Brown but unable to be called so because of a legal skirmish with Ms Brown's estate.
While the Titanic itself is reduced to only a backdrop for these stories to play against, it remains a very compelling and dramatic film experience over 50 years later. For trivia buffs, take special note of the lavish ship sets. With minor re-dressing they were later used again in the Fox productions of "Dangerous Crossing" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
Summary of Titanic
Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have custody of their two children. Their problems soon seem minor when the ship hits an iceberg.Although it was never known for strict authenticity, the elegant 1953 production of Titanic holds just as much fascination as A Night to Remember and James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster. Its original screenplay deservedly won an Oscar? for its brilliant, dramatically involving creation of fictional characters--primarily a strained couple on the verge of divorce (Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck)--whose lives are forever altered on that fateful morning of April 15, 1912. Director Jean Negulesco focuses on this human drama, lending a personal touch to the luxury liner's fatal collision with an iceberg; if the scale-model disaster (complete with motorized miniature lifeboat rowers) looks quaint by modern special-effects standards, it still captures the emotional impact of Titanic's ultimate fate. While Titanic's sinking is inaccurately depicted (here the ship is damaged on the port side, and sinks in one piece), the Webb/Stanwyck relationship is handled with sophistication, style, and well-earned redemption. As would happen with Cameron's Titanic 44 years later, fiction proved a perfect vehicle for tragic factual history. --Jeff Shannon
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