A Night to Remember (Part 8 of 13)

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

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
Chief Baker Charles Joughin: George Rose
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 both a critical and commercial success, and received the 1959 Samuel Goldwyn International Award at the Golden Globe Awards.

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[sealforvr]

I'm assuming the nasty couple are the Duff Coopers?

[myhfpi]

Where you go, I'll go.

[konrad182002]

@darthstarkiller1912 Why do you sound so shocked??!! The film was made in 58, the Titanic sank in 1912, smoking was considered good for your health in those days, esp for your nerves.

[Messylin]

Those poor cabin boys! They're only babies :-(

[MichaelCollins1922]

@darthstarkiller1912 Hey in a situation like that, why not?

[RFKFANTS67]

So seeing youth smoke is hardly shocking....and that hasn't changed much, I was there age when I first lit up.

[RFKFANTS67]

@darthstarkiller1912 lots of kids went to work as kids back then, as many were orphans and needed to live, My great grandfather was a "homeboy" and out on his own at 15, and left England

[SpokaneGirl85]

I learned in the audio commentary by James Cameron that these people really did knock down the gate with a bench and I guess that was what inspired that scene in his movie.

[Chev427BB]

@SpokaneGirl85 A lot of the scenes from James Cameron's movie seem inspired by this one including dialog

[darthstarkiller1912]

7:38 Those cabin boys are smoking and they look they're only 12-17 years old.