Titanic (TV miniseries)
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Titanic is a made-for-TV movie that premièred on CBS
in 1996. Titanic follows several characters on board the RMS Titanic when she sinks on her maiden voyage in 1912. The miniseries was directed by Robert Lieberman
. The original music score was composed by Lennie Niehaus
. This is the first Titanic movie to show the ship breaking in two.
. Alice Cleaver
(Felicity Waterman
) wakes from a nightmare about a baby drowning in the ocean. She then attends a job interview with the Allison family
, hoping to become a full-time nurse for their young daughter, Loraine
(Devon Hoholuk), and their baby son, Trevor
. Bess Allison
(Harley Jane Kozak
) gives Alice the job and informs her that they will be sailing on the Titanic.
The scene then moves to Southampton
on the same day, the day before the Titanic is due to sail. Captain Edward John Smith (George C. Scott
) is overseeing the final preparations onboard the ship. He is forced to give a reluctant interview to a crowd of newspaper reporters who are being given a tour of the Titanic by J. Bruce Ismay
(Roger Rees
), the White Star Line
's managing director.
At the same time, a young vagrant named Jamie Perse (Mike Doyle
) is running through the streets of Southampton with the police after him, having stolen a wallet. He hides in a pub where he meets Simon Doonan (Tim Curry
) and Mr Dickie (Don MacKay
). Doonan helps him out by lending him his flat cap to use as a disguise. Dickie explains that he has a Third Class ticket for the Titanic and is moving to America
to start a new life. Doonan tells Jamie that some of the richest people in the world are sailing on the ship, and it would be a thief's dream. Doonan leaves shortly after and Jamie stays with Dickie, who gets drunk. While Jamie is helping the intoxicated Dickie back to his boarding house, Dickie passes out in the street. Seizing the opportunity, Jamie steals Dickie's money and his Titanic ticket.
The following morning, April 10, all the passengers are arriving to board the ship. Among them is Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta-Jones
), who is traveling on the Titanic to join her husband after attending her aunt's funeral in England
. Just before she boards, she meets Wynn Park (Peter Gallagher
), her former lover, and is dismayed to learn that he is also travelling on the Titanic. Meanwhile, Danish girl Aase Ludvigsen (Sonsee Ahray), a recent Christian convert and missionary, checks into Third Class with the Jack family, with whom she is travelling. Jamie Perse arrives at the same time, and is shocked to discover that the steward checking them in is in fact Simon Doonan, who did not reveal what he did for a living when he was with him in the pub the previous night. When Jamie gives Dickie's name, Doonan knows he has stolen the ticket, but does not say anything. In First Class, as the ship departs Southampton, Isabella is reunited with an old family friend, Hazel Foley (Eva Marie Saint
), who assures her that she will keep her company on the voyage and comfort her while she is in mourning for her aunt.
On the first night, Alice Cleaver is out with the Allison children when she runs into Miss Miller (Crystal Verge), a maid to Madeleine Astor
, wife of legendary millionaire John Jacob Astor
. Miller recognises Alice's face, but she can't remember where she knows her from. On the same night, Jamie Perse tries to get into the First Class area, but is turned away by Fifth Officer Lowe
(Kavan Smith
). He then steals a dinner suit from the laundry and manages to get into the First Class Smoking Room, where he meets Margaret "Molly" Brown
(Marilu Henner
) and John Jacob Astor
(Scott Hylands
). After managing to discreetly steal Astor's billfold, Jamie makes his way back to Third Class but runs into Simon Doonan on the way. Doonan tells Jamie that he saw him steal Astor's billfold and asks him to give it to him, but says he will not report him. Doonan suggests that the best time to steal bilfolds is on the last night, not the first, revealing that he too is a thief.
Over the next days, Jamie is shown by Doonan how easy it is to gain entry to the First Class staterooms, and the two start to plan a massive robbery they will carry out the night before the Titanic is due to dock in New York
. Jamie also spends a lot of time with Aase Ludvigsen, and they gradually begin to fall in love. In First Class, Isabella Paradine has also started to fall in love with Wynn Park once again, the they quickly restart their affair. Wynn asks Isabella to leave her husband and move to Bolivia
with him. Unsure of what to do, Isabella asks the advice of John Jacob Astor's new young wife, Madeleine
(Jane Mortil), who has experience with the divorce process as she is Astor's second wife. Isabella explains that she could never leave her daughter, and her husband does not deserve the heartache it would cause either.
On the evening of April 14, Isabella makes her decision and sends a wireless telegram to her husband, telling him about Wynn and that she is moving to Bolivia with him. In Third Class, Aase is raped by Simon Doonan while she is taking a shower, revealing that he is a much more violent and callous criminal than Jamie. At the same time, Miss Miller suddenly remembers where she had seen Alice Cleaver before. She tells Astor that she saw Alice in the paper, when she was convicted for murdering her baby by throwing him from a train. Shortly after, the Titanic strikes the iceberg, and an emergency evacuation is ordered by Captain Smith.
Jamie discovers Aase has been attacked, but she refuses to tell him what happened. Doonan then appears and tells Jamie that the sinking has given them the perfect opportunity to rob the staterooms, which have been abandoned in a panic. Jamie goes with Doonan, but promises Aase and Clarinda Jack (Tamsin Kelsey) that he will come back for them. As the ship sinks, the passengers are evacuated into the lifeboats, with women and children having first priority.
Wireless operators Harold Bride (Barry Pepper
) and Jack Phillips (Matt Hill
) manage to make contact with the RMS Carpathia
, and inform them they only have an hour before the ship sinks. The ship's Captain, Arthur Rostron
(Terence Kelly
), immediately turns the Carpathia around and heads toward the Titanic, but gravely realises that it will take over 4 hours to reach them.
In First Class, the Allison family are in a panic about what to do. Alice is trying to persuade Bess to abandon their cabin and get to a lifeboat, but she refuses. In desperation, Alice takes baby Trevor from his cot and runs to the Boat Deck, where she manages to get onboard a lifeboat. The Allisons refuse to leave the ship without Trevor, and start searching the ship for him, unaware that he and Alice have already left.
While robbing the staterooms, Jamie is growing agitated and wants to return to Aase. Doonan then inadvertently reveals that it was he who raped her. Jamie attacks him, but Doonan overpowers him. Jamie abandons Doonan and returns to Third Class to help Aase and the Jack family to the lifeboats. Aase has lost her faith following her rape, but Jamie is able to persuade her to leave and manages to get her into a lifeboat, promising to find her if he survives. Shortly after, Doonan boards Aase's boat disguised as a woman, and he panics when he sees that Aase is also in the boat. Isabella is refusing to leave Wynn, but he forces her into Aase's lifeboat. As the boat is lowered, Isabella confesses a long kept secret to Wynn - that her daughter is actually his child. On the other side of the ship, Molly Brown is also forced into a boat against her will by the officers, wanting to stay and help the other women board first. Jamie helps out the officers by lowering one of the other boats down to the ocean, but in doing so he slips and falls from the deck into the boat below, breaking his arm, before passing out.
Hudson Allison
(Kevin Conway) and Bess are still looking for Trevor, but realise they must get their young daughter Loraine onto a lifeboat. They find Captain Smith, who tells them that all the boats have gone. At the same time the Jack family finally reach the Boat Deck, only to also discover that there are no boats. Shortly afterwards, the Titanic breaks into two pieces before disappearing beneath the sea.
Following the sinking, Isabella persuades Officer Lowe to return to pick up survivors from the site. After much hesitation, Lowe agrees. As they are about to turn around, Doonan reveals himself from his disguise, stating that it would a huge mistake to return as survivors would swamp the boat. Aase, recognising Doonan, attacks him but he throws her overboard. He then produces a gun and orders Lowe to continue away from the site of the sinking, but Lowe hits Doonan on the head with an oar, snapping his neck. In another boat, Molly Brown spots a rocket being fired from a ship on the horizon. She organises the women in her lifeboat, two to an oar, and taking an oar herself, they start to row towards the ship. Isabella and Lowe do the same in their boat, and everyone starts shouting and waving in the direction of the ship.
As the sun comes up, the Carpathia has reached the lifeboats. On deck, Isabella waits anxiously with Madeleine Astor as bodies are recovered from the sea. Isabella is grief stricken when she finds Wynn's lifeless body on deck amongst other victims who have died of hypothermia. Jamie is relieved when he finds Aase, who is being tended to by Molly Brown. Molly explains that Aase survived after she was pulled from the water by Isabella and Officer Lowe. After searching the waters for several hours, Rostron decides they won't find any more survivors, and the Carpathia departs.
When the Carpathia reaches New York, the survivors disembark to meet their relatives. Molly Brown sells her story to the press, stating that is planning to run for the Senate. Isabella and Madeleine disembark together. Isabella realises she is now on her own due to her admitting her affair in the wireless telegram she sent to her husband. Alice Cleaver is met by the authorities, after being reported by Miss Miller for taking baby Trevor without permission. Hudson Allison's brother takes custody of Trevor, his parents and sister having perished in the disaster. John Jacob Astor's sons arrive to collect Madeleine, who says a fond goodbye to Isabella. Jamie and Aase depart the dock together, planning to start a new life in California
.
As Isabella leaves the dock, she is both shocked and delighted to see her husband, Eddie (Dale Wilson) and her daughter, Claire (Shaina Tianne Unger) waiting for her. It is revealed that Eddie did not receive the wireless message as the telegram was never sent out due to the sinking. Arm-in-arm, the Paradines leave the dock together.
on the same topic, this TV version was rushed into production and very hastily completed in order to cash in on the latter's pre-release hype. It premiered over two nights in late November 1996. The first part received high Nielsen ratings
, but experienced a huge drop during the second part, because most viewers got turned off by the lackluster production. Since the film was so rushed, it included mistakes and historical inaccuracies which Titanic enthusiasts found inexcusable given the wealth of knowledge about the liner and its occupants available by the mid 1990s.
commented on the fact that the acting was substandard and the ship's operators and owner are portrayed "about as sympathetically as those connected with the Exxon Valdez
." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
also referenced the "embarrassingly bad acting" and out of place scenes.
The film however bears some resemblances to the 1997 theatrical film of the same name
in that the female leads, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kate Winslet
, respectively, are at odds with the privileged lifestyles they're living. Also, a historical personality, First Officer William McMaster Murdoch
commits suicide in both films, an event which cannot be proven.
for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special. It was also nominated for Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special.
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
in 1996. Titanic follows several characters on board the RMS Titanic when she sinks on her maiden voyage in 1912. The miniseries was directed by Robert Lieberman
Robert Lieberman
Robert Lieberman is a Canadian director of movies and television series.-Biography:Lieberman was the founder of the legendary west coast commercial production company Harmony Pictures and has directed close to two thousand commercials, many of them winning awards. He has received countless Clio...
. The original music score was composed by Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus is an American alto saxophonist, arranger, and composer on the West Coast jazz scene. He has played with the Stan Kenton big band, and various other jazz bands on the West Coast of the U.S. Niehaus has arranged and composed for motion pictures, including several produced by Clint...
. This is the first Titanic movie to show the ship breaking in two.
Plot
The movie opens on April 9, 1912 in LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. Alice Cleaver
Allison family
Hudson Joshua Creighton , his wife, Bessie Waldo Allison , their daughter Helen Loraine Allison and their son, Hudson Trevor Allison were passengers on board the RMS Titanic, which struck an...
(Felicity Waterman
Felicity Waterman
Felicity Waterman is an English actress best known for her role as Vanessa Hunt during the final two seasons of the television drama series Knots Landing and as a regular cast member of the series Pensacola: Wings of Gold 1999-2000 in the role of Lt...
) wakes from a nightmare about a baby drowning in the ocean. She then attends a job interview with the Allison family
Allison family
Hudson Joshua Creighton , his wife, Bessie Waldo Allison , their daughter Helen Loraine Allison and their son, Hudson Trevor Allison were passengers on board the RMS Titanic, which struck an...
, hoping to become a full-time nurse for their young daughter, Loraine
Allison family
Hudson Joshua Creighton , his wife, Bessie Waldo Allison , their daughter Helen Loraine Allison and their son, Hudson Trevor Allison were passengers on board the RMS Titanic, which struck an...
(Devon Hoholuk), and their baby son, Trevor
Allison family
Hudson Joshua Creighton , his wife, Bessie Waldo Allison , their daughter Helen Loraine Allison and their son, Hudson Trevor Allison were passengers on board the RMS Titanic, which struck an...
. Bess Allison
Allison family
Hudson Joshua Creighton , his wife, Bessie Waldo Allison , their daughter Helen Loraine Allison and their son, Hudson Trevor Allison were passengers on board the RMS Titanic, which struck an...
(Harley Jane Kozak
Harley Jane Kozak
-Life and career:Kozak was born Susan Jane Kozak in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Dorothy , a university music teacher, and Joseph Aloysius Kozak, an attorney. She has seven siblings: brothers John, Joseph, Peter and Andrew and sisters Dorothy, Mary and Ann. Harley is the youngest of...
) gives Alice the job and informs her that they will be sailing on the Titanic.
The scene then moves to Southampton
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
on the same day, the day before the Titanic is due to sail. Captain Edward John Smith (George C. Scott
George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr...
) is overseeing the final preparations onboard the ship. He is forced to give a reluctant interview to a crowd of newspaper reporters who are being given a tour of the Titanic by J. Bruce Ismay
J. Bruce Ismay
Joseph Bruce Ismay was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line of steamships. He came to international attention as the highest-ranking White Star official among the 706 survivors Joseph Bruce Ismay (12 December 1862 – 17 October 1937) was...
(Roger Rees
Roger Rees
Roger Rees is a Welsh actor. He is best known to American audiences for playing the characters Robin Colcord on the American television sitcom show Cheers and Lord John Marbury on the American television drama The West Wing...
), the White Star Line
White Star Line
The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanics sister ship Britannic...
's managing director.
At the same time, a young vagrant named Jamie Perse (Mike Doyle
Mike Doyle (actor)
Mike Doyle is an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known for his recurring roles in the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, playing Forensics Tech Ryan O'Halloran, and Oz, playing Adam Guenzel....
) is running through the streets of Southampton with the police after him, having stolen a wallet. He hides in a pub where he meets Simon Doonan (Tim Curry
Tim Curry
Timothy James "Tim" Curry is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California....
) and Mr Dickie (Don MacKay
Don Mackay
Donald Mackay is a Scottish former professional football player and manager.-As player:He was a goalkeeper and played for Forfar Athletic and made 104 appearances. He was then signed for Dundee United by Jerry Kerr, for whom he made 170 appearances...
). Doonan helps him out by lending him his flat cap to use as a disguise. Dickie explains that he has a Third Class ticket for the Titanic and is moving to America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
to start a new life. Doonan tells Jamie that some of the richest people in the world are sailing on the ship, and it would be a thief's dream. Doonan leaves shortly after and Jamie stays with Dickie, who gets drunk. While Jamie is helping the intoxicated Dickie back to his boarding house, Dickie passes out in the street. Seizing the opportunity, Jamie steals Dickie's money and his Titanic ticket.
The following morning, April 10, all the passengers are arriving to board the ship. Among them is Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, is a British actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of United Kingdom and United States television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of...
), who is traveling on the Titanic to join her husband after attending her aunt's funeral in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Just before she boards, she meets Wynn Park (Peter Gallagher
Peter Gallagher
Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor, musician and writer. Since 1980, Gallagher has played many roles in numerous Hollywood films. He starred as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007...
), her former lover, and is dismayed to learn that he is also travelling on the Titanic. Meanwhile, Danish girl Aase Ludvigsen (Sonsee Ahray), a recent Christian convert and missionary, checks into Third Class with the Jack family, with whom she is travelling. Jamie Perse arrives at the same time, and is shocked to discover that the steward checking them in is in fact Simon Doonan, who did not reveal what he did for a living when he was with him in the pub the previous night. When Jamie gives Dickie's name, Doonan knows he has stolen the ticket, but does not say anything. In First Class, as the ship departs Southampton, Isabella is reunited with an old family friend, Hazel Foley (Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront , and later starred in the thriller film North by...
), who assures her that she will keep her company on the voyage and comfort her while she is in mourning for her aunt.
On the first night, Alice Cleaver is out with the Allison children when she runs into Miss Miller (Crystal Verge), a maid to Madeleine Astor
Madeleine Astor
Madeleine Astor Dick was the second wife and widow of millionaire John Jacob Astor IV and a survivor of RMS Titanic.-Early life:...
, wife of legendary millionaire John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor IV
John Jacob Astor IV was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War and a member of the prominent Astor family...
. Miller recognises Alice's face, but she can't remember where she knows her from. On the same night, Jamie Perse tries to get into the First Class area, but is turned away by Fifth Officer Lowe
Harold Lowe
Commander Harold Godfrey Lowe RD RNR was the Fifth Officer of the .-Early years:Harold Lowe was born in Eglwys Rhos, Caernarfonshire, North Wales on 21 November 1882, the third of eight children, born to George and Harriet Lowe...
(Kavan Smith
Kavan Smith
Kavan Joel Smith is a Canadian actor best known for playing Major Evan Lorne in Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG-1 and for his recurring role as Agent Jed Garrity in The 4400.-Biography:...
). He then steals a dinner suit from the laundry and manages to get into the First Class Smoking Room, where he meets Margaret "Molly" Brown
Margaret Brown
Margaret Brown was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous due to her involvement with the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, after exhorting the crew of lifeboat 6 to return to look for survivors. It is unclear whether any survivors were found after life boat 6...
(Marilu Henner
Marilu Henner
Mary Lucy Denise "Marilu" Henner is an American actress, producer and author. She is best known for her role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo on the sitcom Taxi from 1978 to 1983.-Early life:...
) and John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor IV
John Jacob Astor IV was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War and a member of the prominent Astor family...
(Scott Hylands
Scott Hylands
Scott Hylands is a Canadian actor who has appeared in movies, television, and on the stage. He is probably best known for his role of Detective Kevin "O.B." O'Brien on the television series Night Heat, played from 1985 to 1989...
). After managing to discreetly steal Astor's billfold, Jamie makes his way back to Third Class but runs into Simon Doonan on the way. Doonan tells Jamie that he saw him steal Astor's billfold and asks him to give it to him, but says he will not report him. Doonan suggests that the best time to steal bilfolds is on the last night, not the first, revealing that he too is a thief.
Over the next days, Jamie is shown by Doonan how easy it is to gain entry to the First Class staterooms, and the two start to plan a massive robbery they will carry out the night before the Titanic is due to dock in New York
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. Jamie also spends a lot of time with Aase Ludvigsen, and they gradually begin to fall in love. In First Class, Isabella Paradine has also started to fall in love with Wynn Park once again, the they quickly restart their affair. Wynn asks Isabella to leave her husband and move to Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
with him. Unsure of what to do, Isabella asks the advice of John Jacob Astor's new young wife, Madeleine
Madeleine Astor
Madeleine Astor Dick was the second wife and widow of millionaire John Jacob Astor IV and a survivor of RMS Titanic.-Early life:...
(Jane Mortil), who has experience with the divorce process as she is Astor's second wife. Isabella explains that she could never leave her daughter, and her husband does not deserve the heartache it would cause either.
On the evening of April 14, Isabella makes her decision and sends a wireless telegram to her husband, telling him about Wynn and that she is moving to Bolivia with him. In Third Class, Aase is raped by Simon Doonan while she is taking a shower, revealing that he is a much more violent and callous criminal than Jamie. At the same time, Miss Miller suddenly remembers where she had seen Alice Cleaver before. She tells Astor that she saw Alice in the paper, when she was convicted for murdering her baby by throwing him from a train. Shortly after, the Titanic strikes the iceberg, and an emergency evacuation is ordered by Captain Smith.
Jamie discovers Aase has been attacked, but she refuses to tell him what happened. Doonan then appears and tells Jamie that the sinking has given them the perfect opportunity to rob the staterooms, which have been abandoned in a panic. Jamie goes with Doonan, but promises Aase and Clarinda Jack (Tamsin Kelsey) that he will come back for them. As the ship sinks, the passengers are evacuated into the lifeboats, with women and children having first priority.
Wireless operators Harold Bride (Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper
Barry Robert Pepper is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing roles like Sergeant Michael Strank in the Clint Eastwood film, Flags of Our Fathers, Private Daniel Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, Roger Maris in 61*, Ned Pepper in True Grit and for his recent role as Robert F...
) and Jack Phillips (Matt Hill
Matt Hill
Matthew "Matt" Hill is a Canadian voice actor. He is known for several roles, including Kevin Keene/Captain N in Captain N: The Game Master, Kira Yamato in Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny, Ed in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Raphael in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, Ryo Sanada in Ronin Warriors and Artha...
) manage to make contact with the RMS Carpathia
RMS Carpathia
RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of after the latter ship hit an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912...
, and inform them they only have an hour before the ship sinks. The ship's Captain, Arthur Rostron
Arthur Rostron
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR was a Captain for the Cunard Line and was the master of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia when it rescued the survivors of the RMS Titanic which sank on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg.Captain Rostron won wide praise for his energetic efforts to reach the...
(Terence Kelly
Terence Kelly
Terence or Terry Kelly may refer to:* Terence Kelly , Canadian actor active since 1971, in Titanic and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale...
), immediately turns the Carpathia around and heads toward the Titanic, but gravely realises that it will take over 4 hours to reach them.
In First Class, the Allison family are in a panic about what to do. Alice is trying to persuade Bess to abandon their cabin and get to a lifeboat, but she refuses. In desperation, Alice takes baby Trevor from his cot and runs to the Boat Deck, where she manages to get onboard a lifeboat. The Allisons refuse to leave the ship without Trevor, and start searching the ship for him, unaware that he and Alice have already left.
While robbing the staterooms, Jamie is growing agitated and wants to return to Aase. Doonan then inadvertently reveals that it was he who raped her. Jamie attacks him, but Doonan overpowers him. Jamie abandons Doonan and returns to Third Class to help Aase and the Jack family to the lifeboats. Aase has lost her faith following her rape, but Jamie is able to persuade her to leave and manages to get her into a lifeboat, promising to find her if he survives. Shortly after, Doonan boards Aase's boat disguised as a woman, and he panics when he sees that Aase is also in the boat. Isabella is refusing to leave Wynn, but he forces her into Aase's lifeboat. As the boat is lowered, Isabella confesses a long kept secret to Wynn - that her daughter is actually his child. On the other side of the ship, Molly Brown is also forced into a boat against her will by the officers, wanting to stay and help the other women board first. Jamie helps out the officers by lowering one of the other boats down to the ocean, but in doing so he slips and falls from the deck into the boat below, breaking his arm, before passing out.
Hudson Allison
Allison family
Hudson Joshua Creighton , his wife, Bessie Waldo Allison , their daughter Helen Loraine Allison and their son, Hudson Trevor Allison were passengers on board the RMS Titanic, which struck an...
(Kevin Conway) and Bess are still looking for Trevor, but realise they must get their young daughter Loraine onto a lifeboat. They find Captain Smith, who tells them that all the boats have gone. At the same time the Jack family finally reach the Boat Deck, only to also discover that there are no boats. Shortly afterwards, the Titanic breaks into two pieces before disappearing beneath the sea.
Following the sinking, Isabella persuades Officer Lowe to return to pick up survivors from the site. After much hesitation, Lowe agrees. As they are about to turn around, Doonan reveals himself from his disguise, stating that it would a huge mistake to return as survivors would swamp the boat. Aase, recognising Doonan, attacks him but he throws her overboard. He then produces a gun and orders Lowe to continue away from the site of the sinking, but Lowe hits Doonan on the head with an oar, snapping his neck. In another boat, Molly Brown spots a rocket being fired from a ship on the horizon. She organises the women in her lifeboat, two to an oar, and taking an oar herself, they start to row towards the ship. Isabella and Lowe do the same in their boat, and everyone starts shouting and waving in the direction of the ship.
As the sun comes up, the Carpathia has reached the lifeboats. On deck, Isabella waits anxiously with Madeleine Astor as bodies are recovered from the sea. Isabella is grief stricken when she finds Wynn's lifeless body on deck amongst other victims who have died of hypothermia. Jamie is relieved when he finds Aase, who is being tended to by Molly Brown. Molly explains that Aase survived after she was pulled from the water by Isabella and Officer Lowe. After searching the waters for several hours, Rostron decides they won't find any more survivors, and the Carpathia departs.
When the Carpathia reaches New York, the survivors disembark to meet their relatives. Molly Brown sells her story to the press, stating that is planning to run for the Senate. Isabella and Madeleine disembark together. Isabella realises she is now on her own due to her admitting her affair in the wireless telegram she sent to her husband. Alice Cleaver is met by the authorities, after being reported by Miss Miller for taking baby Trevor without permission. Hudson Allison's brother takes custody of Trevor, his parents and sister having perished in the disaster. John Jacob Astor's sons arrive to collect Madeleine, who says a fond goodbye to Isabella. Jamie and Aase depart the dock together, planning to start a new life in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
.
As Isabella leaves the dock, she is both shocked and delighted to see her husband, Eddie (Dale Wilson) and her daughter, Claire (Shaina Tianne Unger) waiting for her. It is revealed that Eddie did not receive the wireless message as the telegram was never sent out due to the sinking. Arm-in-arm, the Paradines leave the dock together.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Peter Gallagher Peter Gallagher Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor, musician and writer. Since 1980, Gallagher has played many roles in numerous Hollywood films. He starred as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007... |
Wynn Park |
| George C. Scott George C. Scott George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr... |
Captain E. J. Smith |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones Catherine Zeta-Jones Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, is a British actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of United Kingdom and United States television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of... |
Isabella Paradine |
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Historical inaccuracies
Produced in advance of the imminent James Cameron filmTitanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
on the same topic, this TV version was rushed into production and very hastily completed in order to cash in on the latter's pre-release hype. It premiered over two nights in late November 1996. The first part received high Nielsen ratings
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
, but experienced a huge drop during the second part, because most viewers got turned off by the lackluster production. Since the film was so rushed, it included mistakes and historical inaccuracies which Titanic enthusiasts found inexcusable given the wealth of knowledge about the liner and its occupants available by the mid 1990s.
- There are several errors relating to Margaret BrownMargaret BrownMargaret Brown was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous due to her involvement with the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, after exhorting the crew of lifeboat 6 to return to look for survivors. It is unclear whether any survivors were found after life boat 6...
. She actually boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, not SouthamptonSouthamptonSouthampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
. She was not known as "Molly" until after her death, and in contrast to her portrayal as a raving, oversexed hillbillyHillbillyHillbilly is a term referring to certain people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas of the United States, primarily Appalachia but also the Ozarks. Owing to its strongly stereotypical connotations, the term is frequently considered derogatory, and so is usually offensive to those Americans of...
, she was in fact an intelligent, well-mannered, social and political activist. She was also much older and less attractive than actress Marilu HennerMarilu HennerMary Lucy Denise "Marilu" Henner is an American actress, producer and author. She is best known for her role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo on the sitcom Taxi from 1978 to 1983.-Early life:...
. Furthermore, she is seen drinking and gambling in the smoking room; in realty, the smoking room was a male-only domain and Brown would not have been there. - Molly Brown and the other passengers did not go to dinner after boarding the ship as portrayed in the film. They boarded the ship while dinner was being served, and did not have time to eat.
- The first class smoking room did not have a bar. The stewards served drinks and other beverages in a classic waiting fashion.
- Captain Smith uses a rolled out blueprint to explain the ship's perilous condition to Bruce Ismay and the senior officers. According to testimony from survivors, it was Titanic designer Thomas AndrewsThomas Andrews (shipbuilder)Thomas Andrews, Jr. was an Irish businessman and shipbuilder; managing director and head of the draughting department for the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland. Andrews was the shipbuilder in charge of the plans for the ocean liner...
who did this. Indeed, Andrews, who played a key role in the events that night, is omitted from the movie altogether. - Captain Smith complains about white rockets being used for distress instead of red. In fact, white is the correct color and Smith would have known this.
- When instructing the wireless operators to send a distress call to other ships, Smith erroneously describes the CQDCQDCQD, transmitted in Morse code as — · — · — — · — — · · is one of the first distress signals adopted for radio use...
call as "Come Quickly, Distress". - The Southampton crowd is shown waving off the Titanic off the starboard side. In real life, they did so on the port side.
- A caption at the end of the film claims that "All attempts to raise [the Titanic] have failed". No such attempt has ever been made.
- The Allison family's nurse was not the child murderer Alice Mary Cleaver. She was Alice Catherine Cleaver, a different woman. Cleaver and Trevor Allison boarded lifeboat number 11, quite late into the sinking, not lifeboat 7, the first one launched. The Allisons were also Canadian, not American.
- There was no organized dancing on the Titanic as depicted in the film. The tango (which some characters perform) originated in the bordellos of Argentina and would have been beneath the notice of the upper classes of 1912, who would have considered dancing during dinner to be inappropriate.
- The Titanic was not booked solid as stated in the film. The first and second class cabins were less than half full.
- John Jacob Astor IVJohn Jacob Astor IVJohn Jacob Astor IV was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War and a member of the prominent Astor family...
actually had one son and one daughter from his first marriage, not two sons as stated in the film. Astor is also shown to quip: "I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous." This is an urban legend. - A steerage bathroom is seen during the rape scene, but in reality Titanic's 3rd class had only two bathtubs for use by all passengers. There were no shower stalls as seen in the film.
- J. Bruce IsmayJ. Bruce IsmayJoseph Bruce Ismay was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line of steamships. He came to international attention as the highest-ranking White Star official among the 706 survivors Joseph Bruce Ismay (12 December 1862 – 17 October 1937) was...
did not participate in the final outfitting of the ship and was not in the boiler room (a location forbidden to passengers) at any time during the voyage. As in most films on the subject, Ismay's role is greatly exaggerated. He did not force the ship's crew to run the liner at breakneck speed. It was in fact a regular practice for ships to cross the Atlantic at high speed. He testified at the Senate hearings on the sinking that had the ship been traveling at its maximum speed, it would have arrived in New York in the middle of the night and would have had to wait up to eight hours for a pilot and customs clearance. - Fourth Officer Joseph BoxhallJoseph BoxhallCommander Joseph Groves Boxhall RD RNR was the Fourth Officer on the , and later served as a naval officer in World War I.-Early life:...
in fact survived the sinking. Chief OfficerChief officerA chief officer can refer to any of various leaders:In the military, it can refer to certain non-commissioned members:*Chief Petty Officer*Chief Warrant OfficerMarine occupation:*Chief Mate...
Henry Wilde, Third OfficerThird MateA Third Mate or Third Officer is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship. The third mate is a watchstander and customarily the ship's safety officer and fourth-in-command...
Herbert PitmanHerbert PitmanHerbert John "Bert" Pitman MBE was the Third Officer on board the . He was the only deck officer who was not a member of the Royal Naval Reserve.-Early life and career:...
and Sixth Officer James MoodyJames Paul MoodyJames Paul Moody was the Sixth Officer of the and the only junior officer of the ship to die in the disaster.-Early life:...
are all omitted from the movie. - While there are various reports of an officer committing suicide late in the sinking, it is not known whether First Officer William MurdochWilliam McMaster MurdochLieutenant William "Will" McMaster Murdoch RNR was a Scottish sailor who died on board the , where he was employed by the White Star Line, serving as First Officer...
was the officer in question, if indeed it happened at all. - Murdoch uses a pair of binoculars to get a better view of the iceberg just after it has been sighted. In reality, due to a mix up at Southampton no Titanic officers had binoculars.
- There were no press conferences held aboard the ship on the day before her maiden voyage. The speech Captain Smith gives the reporters was delivered by him five years earlier on another White StarWhite Star LineThe Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanics sister ship Britannic...
liner, the Adriatic. - By 1912, "moving picturesFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
" were well established, so it is unlikely that some characters would be shocked at the concept. Furthermore, it is implausible that Jamie Perse would know of Mary PickfordMary PickfordMary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
, who did not become a major movie starMovie starA movie star is a celebrity who is well-known, or famous, for his or her starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures. The term may also apply to an actor or actress who is recognized as a marketable commodity and whose name is used to promote a movie in trailers and posters...
until 1917. - Several passengers visit a service window to receive and send out wireless telegrams. Such a window did not exist on the Titanic; first class passengers sent and received telegrams via stewards, who delivered them to the Marconi operators.
- The Carpathia's deck was not littered with corpses. The majority of the bodies were recovered by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, which was chartered by the White Star Line for this purpose.
- Californian captain Stanley LordStanley LordStanley Lord was captain of the SS Californian, a ship that was in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic the night it sank on 15 April 1912.- Early life :...
and its wireless operator Cyril Evans were much younger than the actors who portrayed them. Captain Lord was in his mid-thirties, while Evans was twenty. - During a sweeping crane shot of the port side of the ship, several mistakes in the design of the set are apparent, including an extra deck house on the poop and forecastle decks; the main mast facing the wrong direction; and the absence of 'B' Deck.
- The First-Class dining room was actually located on D Deck, not on A Deck right below the Grand Staircase as depicted in the film. The actual first-class dining room was painted white, not peaches-and-cream as shown in the film. Access to the dining saloon was gained through two sets of double doors leading from the reception room located at the bottom of the Grand Staircase. In the film, three large arched openings are shown.
- Though Titanic had a Ritz-inspired restaurant, it did not have a two story tea room with revolving doors and huge windows as depicted in the film. There was not enough room on the ship for such a structure.
- The glass dome over the Grand Staircase is omitted, instead replaced by a regular ceiling and chandelier.
- The Morse codeMorse codeMorse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment...
lampSignal lampA signal lamp is a visual signaling device for optical communication . Modern signal lamps are a focused lamp which can produce a pulse of light...
was located on top of the bridge, but in the film its location is bizarrely shifted onto the front of the first class promenade deck. - Sunrise on April 14 at a latitude near 40 degrees north would be before 5:30 am local solar time. It is shown as occurring at 7:00 am, impossible by any reasonable clock setting. Daylight Saving Time was not in use in 1912.
- The ship did not have a brig, or any kind of prison. Furthermore, brig is a naval term and would not be used on a civilian vessel.
- The Titanic was built and fitted out in Belfast, not Southampton as shown in the film.
- Shortly after the ship collides with the iceberg, first class passengers Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor and the fictional character of "Mr. Foley" (loosely based on Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-GordonCosmo Duff GordonSir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, 5th Baronet DL , the son of the Hon. Cosmo Lewis Duff Gordon and the former Anna Maria Antrobus, was a prominent Scottish landowner and sportsman. He was particularly noted as a fencer, representing Great Britain at the 1906 Summer Olympics, winning silver in the team...
, a real passenger) are shown emerging from the second class entrance at the aft port side of the boat deck. To top off this odd moment, the trio is then shown admiring the passengers tossing around the pieces of ice that fell onto the deck after the collision, even though the ship hit the berg with her starboard side at the bow and the iceberg never even fully reached A-deck, which was a level below the boat deck.
Reception
Titanic received mixed reviews from critics. The New York Daily NewsNew York Daily News
The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....
commented on the fact that the acting was substandard and the ship's operators and owner are portrayed "about as sympathetically as those connected with the Exxon Valdez
Exxon Valdez
Oriental Nicety, formerly Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mediterranean, SeaRiver Mediterranean, S/R Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Dong Fang Ocean is an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska...
." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area...
also referenced the "embarrassingly bad acting" and out of place scenes.
The film however bears some resemblances to the 1997 theatrical film of the same name
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
in that the female leads, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader...
, respectively, are at odds with the privileged lifestyles they're living. Also, a historical personality, First Officer William McMaster Murdoch
William McMaster Murdoch
Lieutenant William "Will" McMaster Murdoch RNR was a Scottish sailor who died on board the , where he was employed by the White Star Line, serving as First Officer...
commits suicide in both films, an event which cannot be proven.
Awards
Titanic received an Emmy AwardEmmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special. It was also nominated for Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special.
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special | David Husby, David E. Fluhr, Adam Jenkins, Don Digirolamo | |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special | Joe I. Tompkins, Jori Woodman |