Titanic (1953)
Country: US
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter, Brian Aherne, Richard Basehart
Synopsis:
Among the passengers aboard the doomed liner are an estranged couple, the wife eager to rescue her children from a stifling social high life, and a Catholic priest defrocked for drunkenness.
Review:
This Fox drama seems charmingly small-scale now in comparison with the Cameron near-remake (there is a similar love story that crosses the social divide), but for many years it was eclipsed by the superior British production, A Night to Remember, which focused far more on the technological hubris of the ship's design, and accordingly had major characters in the shape of Second Officer (who gets a brief look-in here) and shipwright, rather than arbitrarily chosen passengers. Nevertheless, there is quality to be found in another fine Webb portrayal of haughtiness concealing a heart of gold, and a script that ticks all the boxes even if the effects are not quite up to the mark.
Country: US
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter, Brian Aherne, Richard Basehart
Synopsis:
Among the passengers aboard the doomed liner are an estranged couple, the wife eager to rescue her children from a stifling social high life, and a Catholic priest defrocked for drunkenness.
Review:
This Fox drama seems charmingly small-scale now in comparison with the Cameron near-remake (there is a similar love story that crosses the social divide), but for many years it was eclipsed by the superior British production, A Night to Remember, which focused far more on the technological hubris of the ship's design, and accordingly had major characters in the shape of Second Officer (who gets a brief look-in here) and shipwright, rather than arbitrarily chosen passengers. Nevertheless, there is quality to be found in another fine Webb portrayal of haughtiness concealing a heart of gold, and a script that ticks all the boxes even if the effects are not quite up to the mark.
Country: US
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter, Brian Aherne, Richard Basehart
Synopsis:
Among the passengers aboard the doomed liner are an estranged couple, the wife eager to rescue her children from a stifling social high life, and a Catholic priest defrocked for drunkenness.
Review:
This Fox drama seems charmingly small-scale now in comparison with the Cameron near-remake (there is a similar love story that crosses the social divide), but for many years it was eclipsed by the superior British production, A Night to Remember, which focused far more on the technological hubris of the ship's design, and accordingly had major characters in the shape of Second Officer (who gets a brief look-in here) and shipwright, rather than arbitrarily chosen passengers. Nevertheless, there is quality to be found in another fine Webb portrayal of haughtiness concealing a heart of gold, and a script that ticks all the boxes even if the effects are not quite up to the mark.