S.O.S. Titanic
- Harry Andrews: Captain Edward John Smith
- Ian Holm: Joseph Bruce Ismay
- Geoffrey Whitehead: Thomas " Tom" Andrews
- David Janssen: John Jacob Astor IV
- Beverly Ross: Madeleine Astor
- Cloris Leachman: Margaret " Molly " Brown
- Dorothea Phillips: Emma Bucknell
- Kate Howard: Countess of Rothes
- Michele O'Connor: Kate Mullins
- John Moffatt: Benjamin Guggenheim
- Ed Bishop: Henry Harris
- Lise Hilboldt: Rene Harris
- Jerry Houser: Daniel Marvin
- Deborah Falling: Mary Marvin
- David Warner: Lawrence Beesley
- Susan Saint James: Leigh Goodwin
- Robert Pugh: James " Jimmy" Farrell
- Gerard McSorley Martin Gallagher
- Ronan Smith: Daniel Buckley
- Philip O'Sullivan: David Charters
- Antoinette O'Reilly: Cath
- Shevaun Briars: Katie Gilnagh
- Catherine Byrne: Bridget Bradley
- Rynagh O'Grady: Mary Agatha Glynn
- Tony Caunter: Ltd.. Officer Henry T. Wilde
- Paul Young: 1st Officer William M. Murdoch
- Malcolm Stoddard: 2nd Officer Charles Lightoller
- Warren Clarke: 4th Officer Joseph Boxhall
- Peter Bourke: Harold Bride
- Kevin O'Shea: Reginald Lee
- Alec Sabin: Frederick Fleet
- Maurice Roëves: Ltd.. Heater Fred Barret
- Helen Mirren: Mary Sloan ( stewardess, first class)
- Jacob Brooke: John Hardy ( Steward, 2nd Class )
- Aubrey Morris: John Hart ( Steward, 3rd class)
- Madge Ryan: Violet Jessop ( stewardess, 3rd class )
- Ian Abercrombie: Deck Steward
- Arthur Malet: librarian
- Anna Quayle: Maude Slocombe ( Staff in the Turkish bath )
- Nicholas Davies: Alfie King ( elevator operator )
- Martin Murphy: Peter Fletcher ( horn )
- Matthew Guinness: Father Byles (priest)
- Victor Langley: Wallace Hartley
- Philip Stone: Captain Arthur Rostron (RMS Carpathia )
- Christopher Strauli: radio operator Harold Cottam (RMS Carpathia )
- Rosemary Leach: Mrs. Ogden ( RMS Carpathia passenger of )
S.O.S. Titanic is a British - American television film directed by William Hale from the year 1979. The film was shot with British money and many British actors at Shepperton Studios in London.
Content
Three actions are told in parallel to illustrate the drama of all three classes on the Titanic. In the first class, it is John Jacob Astor, who travels with his young and pregnant wife to New York, in the second class, it is the high school teacher Lawrence Beesley, who begins a romance with the professional colleague Leigh Goodwin, and in the third class falls in love with the Irish immigrant Martin Gallagher in an Irish unknown beauty. Three fates and hopes to leave Southampton for the United States and end but on that fateful April 14, 1912, as the luxury ship thought to be unsinkable strikes an iceberg and the desperate struggle for the lifeboats begins.
Reception
The film is considered to be less technically managed and restricted more to the historical facts as to the authenticity of the film sets. The Titanic is neither realistic nor reconstructed in scale and appearance in this film. The interior of the scenes used for the interior shots corresponded largely to the 1930s. Some exterior shots can be concluded that the film was partly filmed on the Queen Mary ( At one point the starboard wing of the bridge can be clearly seen, which is based at the Queen Mary on their own "tower". ). Various shots of the sinking ship also resemble similar sequences from the UK, shot in black and white Titanic movie from 1958, which have been eincoloriert obviously for this TV film.