A Night to Remember (Part 1 of 13)

Directed: Roy Ward Baker
Produced: William MacQuitty
Written: Walter Lord (book) Eric Ambler (screenplay)

Cast:
Second Officer Charles Lightoller: Kenneth More
Captain Edward J. Smith: Laurence Naismith
Thomas Andrews: Michael Goodliffe
J. Bruce Ismay: Frank Lawton
Captain Stanley Lord: Russell Napier
Captain Arthur Rostron: Anthony Bushell
Mrs. Margaret "Molly" Brown: Tucker McGuire
Jack Phillips: Kenneth Griffith
Harold Bride: David McCallum
Lookout Fredrick Fleet: Bernard Fox (Uncredited)
(Note: Sean Connery appears as a Deck Crew Member)

A Night to Remember is a 1958 docudrama film adaptation of Walter Lord's book of the same name, recounting the final night of the RMS Titanic. long regarded as a high point by Titanic historians for its accuracy. Despite the film's relatively modest production values and the picture-perfect reproduction of the ship's fittings in the 1997 Oscar-winning film Titanic, A Night to Remember still receives praise as "the most accurate of all Titanic movies" and "the definitive Titanic tale", especially for its social realism, reflecting, in the words of one critic, "the overwhelming historical evidence that the class rigidity of 1912, for all its defects, produced a genuine sense of behavioral obligation on the Titanic among rich and poor alike; that the greatest number of people aboard faced death or hardship with a stoic and selfless grace that the world has wondered at for most of this century."

The film was a Box Office Hit, and received the 1959 Samuel Goldwyn International Award at the Golden Globe Awards.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Titanic
• Sinking
• 1958
• docudrama

[zimmy606]

um, the numbers of the classes here, are they correct? Because i thought there was only first and steerage class back then.

[JMFiorato1986]

@zimmy606 no, the film is correct. There were 3 classes. 2nd class was basically the middle income people. They were not rich, but were not poor at the same time. In fact, many of those who ended up in 2nd class were people who had booked 1st class on other ships. They ended up in 2nd class on the Titanic due to a coal strike that was taking place.

Many films about the Titanic exclude the 2nd class and focus on the 1st and 3rd.

[monkeycheeks101]

is this available in colour

[JMFiorato1986]

@monkeycheeks101 no

[Angele101006]

I love this movie. Kenneth More is the spitting image of Lightoller. He did a great job in this role! Thanks for posting.

[JMFiorato1986]

@Angele101006 I love this movie as well. Dispite its inaccuracies, is the best Titanic movie out there... even better then Cameron's sappy love story.

With that said, even though More did a good job at portraying Lightoller, I think he is shown in too much of a postive light and more heroic then he was in life. It should not be forgotten that it was Lightoller that changed the rules from Women & Children first to Women & Children Only. By doin that, he cost lives that way.

[Charles787980]

By far the best version of the Titanic story.

[sealforvr]

@HHHPPP8 thats because thats the Queen Mary! They used newsreel footage of the QM's launching. If you look there are 4 prop shafts rather than Titanic's 3

[1909RMSTitanic1912]

The British know how to make classic movies.

[AmethystSaphy]

i love how the ad on the side is an ad for a cruise....>.>...makes me NOT want to go on a cruise

[darthvalor07]

Oh, come on! The Titanic was never even christened!!! >:(

[sweet161402]

Love this movie so much!Thanks for showing,haven't seen in years.I wish they would or could colorize it,it is the most authentic version we have on film to date.Alot of the survivors were still alive and the book is great!

[MrWhatsrossable]

i thought titanic wasnt Christensen as it wasnt white star lines quality

[30inception]

haven't seen this in years, thanks

[Thepandagirl1992]

Thumbs up if you are watching this for school