You must have been 6 at the time. I saw it on TV in my twenties and found it completely ridiculous.

...Are you ridiculing me for at one time having been a child?

Of course not, I'm just saying if you watched it now you would be very disappointed. P.S. as a kid I was terrified by the Cassandra Crossing, that last train wreck scene gave me nightmares. When I saw it again as an adult I was bored to death.