A Night to Remember (Part 13 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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[SpokaneGirl85]

I wonder if the Titanic really had a nursery in there.

[JMFiorato1986]

@SpokaneGirl85 no, there was none. There was suppose to be one on the Britannic... but was never used as it was suppose to be.

[ARSA525]

Way better than Cameron's movie. This just became my favourite Titanic movie!

[Jurassic56]

Absolutely brilliant. Thanks so much for posting

[darcimkire07]

glad to see this..way much better than Cameron's..in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking

[anthonyjthorne]

A great movie, directed by the great Roy Ward Baker (who later made some fine Hammer films). At 1.30 we get a single shot tracking across the survivors for over a minute, a subtle but probable inspiration for the long, extended tracking shot Cameron features at the end of his movie. A great, tragic story done justice with a fine film.

[boxlunches]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[papaalphamike]

thank you. This is my favourite version. Just think not having regular radio monitoring,  not enough life boats and oh boy the north Atlantic is COLD

[30inception]

Bravo

[Radi0headed]

Thanks for the upload, I enjoyed this film very much. Well as much as you can enjoy a film about 1000+ people dying!

[joannespetrus1]

I saw the Cameron film when it came out. By the time the intermission came I was bored stiff with the improbable antics of Leo and Kate and was willing the ship to hit the iceberg just to put the scriptwriter out of his misery. When our hero finally sank into the depths with bubbling groan I cheered inwardly. When O when will Hollywood realise as Eric Ambler did that history is dramatic enough without the superimposition of all that melodramatic twaddle.

[TimeLordParadox]

@konrad182002 Fantastic, and just in time for the 100th anniversary.

[Professor6871]

@Professor6871 well Jesus went on lot about loving people but he change didn't much didn't he. Alright Blair was man of actions bad actions catastrophic ones.

[mikelheron20]

@Professor6871 Agree with you about God but not about Blair. Blair can be accused of many things but "no action"? Most people criticise him for too much action.