Review of S.O.S. Titanic

A TV movie from 1979 tracing the events of that fateful April night from over a hundred years ago. Following the actual events & people who participated in the infamous iceberg crash, we get the boilerplate of what happened (even though there were a couple of films in the 50's, A Night to Remember & Titanic, which this film also draws from) w/middling to slight returns since we now have the '97 James Cameron version which seems to be the textbook account of the tragedy. Not even the interesting casting can get much more than 'oh they were in this' shrug from the most cynical of viewers but if you need to be a completist on all things Titanic, watch away. The cast includes Harry Andrews (one of the council of elders from Superman: The Movie), Susan Saint James, Helen Mirren, the late, great Ian Holm & David Warner (both of whom would star a couple of years later in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits), David Janssen (TV's The Fugitive), Aubrey Morris & Warren Clarke (both of them from A Clockwork Orange) & Oscar winner Cloris Leachman as Molly Brown.