Hollywood's Titanic got it all wrong, says Julian Fellowes as he attacks film's factual inaccuracies (MAIL ON LINE)

By ALASDAIR GLENNIE
PUBLISHED: 19:16 EST, 19 March 2012 |
UPDATED: 19:36 EST, 19 March 2012

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has attacked James Cameron’s blockbuster movie Titanic for its factual inaccuracies. He says that his own four-part TV mini series about the 1912 disaster will ‘set the record straight’. In an interview with the Radio Times, the 62-year-old said the 1997 Hollywood film unfairly vilified the ship’s first officer, William Murdoch, as a coward.

In the film, Murdoch – played by actor Ewan Stewart – is seen shooting terrified passengers before taking his own life. But Lord Fellowes said: ‘That was very unfair how Murdoch was depicted. He wasn’t cowardly. He fired the pistol to stop a potential riot.

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