Night to Remember (A)
- Director: Roy Ward Baker
- Writer: Walter Lord; Eric Ambler
- Producer: William MacQuitty; Earl St. John
CGiii Comment
It is interesting to see the bits that Cameron 'used' for his version...but now, listening to all the received pronunciation makes it terribly difficult to take it seriously.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
It is 1912, and the White Star Line's new ship - the 'unsinkable' Titanic - is making its maiden voyage across the Atlantic from Southhampton to New York City. Unfortunately, the night of April 14-15, 1912 proves to be a night in which man's arrogant overconfidence in his technological creations was shaken to its core, as the legendary ship collides with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The much-touted watertight compartment system that supposedly rendered it 'unsinkable' was never designed to cope with such extensive damage, and the Titanic is doomed. Focusing on the accounts of most of the real people who sailed on the ship, it centers largely on the experiences of the ship's 2nd officer, C.H. Lightholler. With these accounts come frightening revelations about the ship - not only are there way too few lifeboats, but people are loaded into them according to their class - First before Steerage. Based on the late Walter Lord's book of the same title.
Cast & Characters
Kenneth More as Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller;
Ronald Allen as Mr. Clarke;
Robert Ayres as Maj. Arthur Peuchen;
Honor Blackman as Mrs. Liz Lucas;
Anthony Bushell as Capt. Arthur Rostron;
John Cairney as Mr. Murphy;
Jill Dixon as Mrs. Clarke;
Jane Downs as Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller;
James Dyrenforth as Col. Archibald Gracie;
Michael Goodliffe as Thomas Andrews;
Kenneth Griffith as Wireless Operator John 'Jack' Phillips;
Harriette Johns as Lady Richard;
Frank Lawton as Chairman J. Bruce Ismay;
Richard Leech as First Officer William Murdoch;
David McCallum as Assistant Wireless Operator Harold Bride