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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
EAN: 0024543077657
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: FOXD2007766D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1953
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The lives of passengers aboard the doomed vessel are seen both before & during the tragic sinking. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/27/2007 Starring: Clifton Webb Robert Wagner Run time: 98 minutes
Amazon.com:
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Excellent film. I prefer it over the recent release. The service provided by the seller was prompt and exactly as advertised relating to product quality.
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The Bottom Line:
I would never use the words "historically-accurate" to describe this version of the Titanic's sinking, but it's one of those balls-to-the-wall melodramas that makes no secret of its sudsiness while managing to deliver affecting scenes and splendid performances by the leads: by combining the inherent drama of the sinking ship to the melodrama of a fractured family trying to piece itself together, this Titanic really cooks up quite an involving story.
3.5/4
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My only complaint about this film is that it depicts the port side of the ship being ripped open as opposed to the starboard side, which is the side where the Titanic hit the iceberg (or the iceberg hit the Titanic). I guess someone in the studio's crew forgot to flip the film over. It had pretty astounding special effects for its day. I can remember setting my alarm clock to get up to watch this movie at 2 in the morning in the days before the advent of the VCR. This is the movie which started my life-long fascination with the Titanic.
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This is a very worthwhile Black-and-white drama. The acting is fine, the sets beautiful, and the drama realistic.
This is not meant to be a documentary--leave that to the movie "A Night to Remember". This is a
more gripping tale, however.
By the way, this is the movie where the ship band plays "Nearer my God to Thee", as the ship slips
beneath the waves.
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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".
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