Britannic Movie Review 1999

The Brittanic, the Titanic's sister ship, was built as a luxury liner but when WWI began the ship was turned into a hospital transport after its launch in 1914. The ship did sink off the Greek coast in 1916 (probably due to a torpedo or mine) but the filmmakers haven't let any other facts of the story stand in the way of this poor man's "Titanic" with its class difference romance and other cliches.

Distribution

Pioneer Entertainment, c/o CDC America, 2265 E. 220th St., Long Beach, CA 90810, Phone: (310)952-2231, Toll-free: 800-526-0363, Fax: (800)843-7332, URL: http://www.pioneer-ent.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 96 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Disaster Flicks, Sail Away, True Stories, Period Piece: 1910s

Screenplay

Brian Trenchard-Smith, Brett Thompson, Dennis A. Pratt

Cast

Edward Atterton, Jacqueline Bisset, John Rhys-Davies, Bruce Payne, Amanda Ryan, Ben Daniels

Cinematography

Ivan Strasburg

Director

Brian Trenchard-Smith

Music

Alan Parker