Great Britain

Rank's expensive retelling of the fatal voyage of the Titanic in 1912 when the ill-fated ship struck an iceberg on a calm sea in mid-Atlantic. Two and a half hours later, the Captain gave the order to abandon ship, and the Titanic went down, leaving only 705 survivors.
The Titanic's story provides ideal cinematic material - human drama multiplied some 2,000 times, social significance, the glamour of the sea, the symbolic power of a sinking era, and a strong sense of divine intervention with all its inscrutable brutality.
Popular novelist Eric Ambler was commissioned to write the script, adapted from the book by Walter Lord.