Sir Ismay è presidente della White Star Line e confida molto nel viaggio inaugurale del Titanic. Sarà per questo motivo che lui spingerà il capitano Smith a raggiungere il prima possibile Ne... Leggi tuttoSir Ismay è presidente della White Star Line e confida molto nel viaggio inaugurale del Titanic. Sarà per questo motivo che lui spingerà il capitano Smith a raggiungere il prima possibile New York facendogli aumentare la velocità dei motori del transatlantico. La tragedia però è ... Leggi tuttoSir Ismay è presidente della White Star Line e confida molto nel viaggio inaugurale del Titanic. Sarà per questo motivo che lui spingerà il capitano Smith a raggiungere il prima possibile New York facendogli aumentare la velocità dei motori del transatlantico. La tragedia però è in agguato.
- Sir Bruce Ismay
- (as E.F. Fürbringer)
- Manniküre Hedi
- (as Monika Burg)
- Marcia
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- Kapellmeister Gruber
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- Lord Douglas
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- 1. Funker Philipps
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- 2. Ingenieur Hesketh
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- Landarbeiter Bobby
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- Obersteward
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- QuizDirector Herbert Selpin was arrested by the Gestapo during this film's production. He was found hanged in his cell the following day.
- BlooperIt is stated in the movie that the Titanic was the fastest liner in the world, and that she was traveling at 26 1/2 knots near the beginning of the voyage. The Titanic could only travel at 23 knots, and she never traveled at her top speed before her sinking. Besides this, the RMS Mauretania was capable of 27 knots, so 26 1/2 wouldn't have been enough to beat her.
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1st Officer Petersen: [enters a room]
Gloria: [behind a curtain] Is anybody there?
1st Officer Petersen: Yes, Petersen. Please put on your life jackets and go on deck immediately.
Gloria: Oh deck? Why?
1st Officer Petersen: I'm not authorized to give passangers audditional information.
Sir Bruce Ismay: [comes behind the curtain] One moment. But you will give ME information.
1st Officer Petersen: To you, as the president responsible for this, I WILL give information: The Titanic is sinking.
Gloria: The Titanic is sinking?
Sir Bruce Ismay: What are you saying?
1st Officer Petersen: The Titanic is sinking.
Sir Bruce Ismay: [laughs]
1st Officer Petersen: We collidition with an iceberg. The Titanic is ripped open from the bow till under the bridge.
Sir Bruce Ismay: Don't tell nonsense.
1st Officer Petersen: You'll soon see, thatever it's nonsense. In jsut a few hours it's all over and a few thousand will be on the bottom because of you
Gloria: But we have lifeboats.
1st Officer Petersen: The lifeboats will hold almost a third of the passengers.
Sir Bruce Ismay: I order you to secure a lifeboat for me immediately.
1st Officer Petersen: First: You can't give me orders, Second: according to the law: women and children go first and third I'll give you the advice to go in you cabin and get your life jacket
[about to leave the room]
Sir Bruce Ismay: Stay here!
1st Officer Petersen: What else do you want?
Sir Bruce Ismay: Please lets talk as man to man. Forget about the earlier momant this evening. I was nervous it was a momental excitement. I beg you: get me a lifeboat.
1st Officer Petersen: YOU should have been got the lifeboats.
Sir Bruce Ismay: No. Be reasonable. I'll give you five - I'll give you $10 000,-. Save me a place.
1st Officer Petersen: [pushs Ismay away and leaves]
Sir Bruce Ismay: We'll see if I'll come along.
- Versioni alternativeThe Allied approved censored version ran 80 minutes and omitted two scenes; one where the British officers make snide comments about Petersen's presence on board the "Titanic" and, more substantially, the entire epilogue where Officer Petersen condemns Bruce Ismay's actions during the inquiry into the sinking. The final inter-title that blames the disaster on British capitalism was also removed.
- ConnessioniEdited into Screen Directors Playhouse: The Titanic Incident (1955)
- Colonne sonoreGod Save The King
(uncredited)
Traditional, often attributed to Thomas Augustine Arne or Henry Carey
(British national anthem)
played at the first dinner
I have heard the first officer is a fictional German character, but hey, they were ALL speaking German!
Did this thing do like the English comedy "Allo, Allo" and have the rest of the cast speak German but with American and English accents? That would have been fun to hear.
I got a copy of "Lady and the Tramp" in Spanish and it is delightful to hear the Italian butchers sing their priceless song in Spanish, but now with Italian accents! It actually worked!
But I digress.
I recognize the dropped names, Ismay and Astor, but it seems the majority of the rest of the cast have undergone name changes. Whatever. The captain seems more like der Burgermeister than he does the ted-dibly English Captain E.J. Smith actually was. I was amused by the crewman bringing the captain his jacket on deck and slipping it on him. I thought to myself, an actual English captain would not have appeared on deck unadorned like that.
Our man Ismay here doesn't look at all as he did in real life, which I thought was puzzling. Ismay in this film is slightly grey and no moustache.
I wondered if the nose was striving for some Jewish look, or was it shooting for the English look. About the last time we see Ismay in this thing, he is shrieking like Adolf, so any stereotype either way was done away with.
Wallace Hartley's band on the Titanic consisted of eight members. In this German version, it would be a large oompah oompah band. In the 1929-30 "Atlantic" film, we hear a Charlston band.
As I watched this film, I looked at the extravagance and thought "are they trying to mimick Hollywood?"
The fashion sense to 1912 didn't connect, it was more "buy war bonds" to me.
Everytime the film would be mucking up for me (that German couple) there would be a saving grace (the wireless operator setting the bird free, while not true, was intriguing to observe).
That the racy steerage woman would survive I found interesting. The tenderness extended in these directions, with what was going on in the world at that time, is bewildering and if this film wasn't released back then after completion, I think that was a terrible shame.
Still, this film just stands as one more film version of the Titanic that is perplexing to watch for historical reasons if nothing else.
Not as bad as the 1929 version, and possesses more dimension than the '53 one.
- richard.fuller1
- 7 feb 2004
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