I don't care if it's true that passengers in the lifeboat from the sunken ship 'William Brown' in this supposed 'true-story' film were thrown overboard so that some of the other passengers may live. If that's how it happened in real life, then the perpetrators got it DEAD WRONG.They missed the whole point of humanity, and so did the lame 'captain' in this movie, being weakly portrayed here by Tyrone Power. Ironically, this may be his best role since he's directed to be a martyr instead of a smiling hero. Then again, ANYBODY can appear to be a 'good actor' if they just frown the whole time.Nope..... sorry folks. It was an abomination of human spirit that made people sacrifice the lives of others so that 'at least a few others' could live. They got it WRONG, and so did you if you think you have the right to decide who's going to live and who's going to die. Check your brains..... if you have any.

First of all, I could not believe I had never seen this movie before, especially since I love the old B & W classics, but I also could not believe a movie of this caliber and magnitude awaited me when I sat down at my computer last night and watched an uploaded version someone had placed on You tube. This movie takes everything you probably believe, turns it upside down and then turns it upside down once again! I knew I was captivated when I started debating the Captain about everything from what's right and what's wrong to the proper code of conduct for civilized men, etc., etc., etc. And in all honesty, I would like to think that my position would be contrary to the position taken by the Captain, but until you've "been there, down that", you're never really quite sure.

This copycat film was not nearly as compelling as the late '40's film Lifeboat, the best post WWII lifeboat film. Both shared similar story lines, but Lifeboat had better actors and more interesting story twists.See Lifeboat instead. Much better cast and more subtle and effective acting than with the over-the-top, chew-the-scenery overacting from Tyrone Power. Lifeboat also had a good and sympathetic-til-the-end, rescued German sailer subplot that was effective in pulling our heartstrings until we saw that often things are not what they appear to be. They are often worse.

I saw this movie twenty years ago and thought what absolute nonsense.Overly melodramatic with the three persons Tyrone Power briefly encounters at the beginning."Have you seen her? Have you seen her?" Said to be based on a true story, I made inquiries back then and was told that there was indeed a ship that sank as quickly as this one, the fictitious Cresent Star, was purported to have done, but there was no incident with an officer passing survivors off of a lifeboat into the water. The officer himself was pure fiction.There is a remake with Martin Sheen about 1975. This one proposes a trial of some sorts afterward.In truth, there was several incidents on the Titanic alone that involved lack of room in lifeboats, one such situation was the lifeboat had standing room only and the survivors appeared to be walking on water as they edge of the boat was that close to the water, but no one was passed over the side.This movie possessed no more thought and insight other than to go "what would you do?" if you were in a similar situation.I couldn't help but notice there would even be an incident with a shoe, which occurred in Hitch's Lifeboat.I think Mai Zetterling threw the shoe overboard.Just a lot of intense, overly melodramatic nonsense.Definitely check out Lifeboat for much greater thought and human development.