I'm watching A Night To Remember, the 1958 version of the Titanic story. This must have been a difficult movie to make and watch, considering that many survivors were still alive at the time. From the description, it looks as though there were survivors involved in the making of the film.

It looks just like the 1997 version, except without the love drama, and it's in black and white. The band is playing; sneaky men are trying to get on the lifeboats with the women; the third class passengers are not being allowed up top till too late; and the woman playing Unsinkable Molly Brown looks very like Kathy Bates

Differences: the ship is maintaining a very horizontal position as it sinks; they are focusing on the rescue (or lack of) efforts on the parts of the other ships in the area.

All in all, just as dramatic and tragic as the newer version, even without Leo and Kate and all the computer animation. Or maybe because it is lacking those aspects :)

... ok, I spoke too soon, the ship isn't horizontal any more. It appears the ship lost just as much china this time as it did last time.

It must have been very lonely there, at the end, for those on the lifeboats as well as those left on the liner.

Time to go move a chair.