Had to watch this 1958 movie on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (Camerons "Titanic" just makes me want the ship to sink).
I forgot that David McCallum played the junior radio operator, Harold Bride.

One of the questions I had to look up was "When did the Titanic sink?" Well, apparently, the ship sank at approximately 2:20 AM (Ship's time). This was set by the ship's position. The actual time of sinking was around 12:47 AM EST. Since there was no Daylight Savings Time in effect, this meant that in 2012, the ship sank at approximately 1:47 EDST.

Yea, I just watched this movie tonight on TCM. Great flick. Never saw James Camerons version. Dont want to either.

Rob

James Cameron's version is quite impressive, I think. It made a ton of money because it was a good movie...a hell of a lot better than that dopey cliche Avatar.

Anyway, I think it's sad that so many of the younger generation are shocked to discover that the Titanic was a real ship and story.

I liked Cameron's Titanic. If you get past the rather cliche love story, the story of the ship sinking was pretty good, and included a lot of anecdotal
stories I've read in other sources - neat to see on the screen!

I thoroughly enjoyed the far fetched love story. Kate was great to watch ( good girl who always delivers). Billy Zane was nasty and despicable(I don't know why Cameron did not go ahead and give him a thin dastardly mustache).

Cracking good yarn and the ship sinking was very impressive. I shed a tear for the victims, because I knew it really happened. I wonder how, considering it was before I was born and there was no internet or anything. Perhaps it was hidden in a book.

In a more twisted version, my old high school had their prom this weekend. Their theme: Titanic. Seems a bit odd to have a tragedy that killed 1500 people as a theme to a high school dance.

My son recently took a trip to Branson Missouri. He came back with souveniers from thier Titanic Museum. Strange place for it to be, I thought. I don't remember hearing that the ship stopped there.

Yeah, that's an odd place for a Titanic rememberance thing. I've only driven by it, but my in-laws say its a pretty cool experience.

Did any of you guys with Twitter accounts follow the real time Titanic feed over the weekend?

https://twitter.com/#!/TitanicRealTime

I was also a big fan of the James Cameron movie, because as Johnny Chemo mentioned, he did include so many anecdotal stories- the picture of the boy playing with the top on the Promenade Deck before the ship pulled in to Cherbourg, Jack Thayer joining other passengers on the foredeck throwing around chunks of ice, Harold Bride and others clinging to Collapsible C before being rescued by the Carpathia...

I watched some of 'A Night To Remember' on TCM but fell asleep half way through, I watched it numerous times as a kid in the 60s anyway. I watched two Titanic documentaries on youtube and 'ANTR' has a quite a few inaccuracies too. The band never played any music in the final moments and they certainly never played Auld Lange Syne, they did play some ragtime music earlier in the evening. J. Bruce Ismay was well aware when the ship struck the iceberg and was not fast asleep and didn't have a clue she struck as shown in the movie. There are other inaccuracies but those two stuck out the most.