A Night to Remember (1958 film)
- Kenneth More: 2nd Officer Charles Lightoller
- Ronald Allen: Mr. Clarke
- Robert Ayres: Major Arthur Peuchen
- Honor Blackman: Mrs. Elizabeth Lucas
- Anthony Bushell: Capt. Rostron ( Carpathia )
- John Cairney: Mr. Murphy
- Jill Dixon: Mrs. Clarke
- Jane Downs: Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller
- James Dyrenforth: Col. Archibald Gracie
- Michael Goodliffe: Thomas Andrews
- Kenneth Griffith: top wireless operator Jack Phillips
- Harriette Johns: Lady Richard
- Frank Lawton: Bruce Ismay
- Richard Leech: 1st Officer William M. Murdoch
- David McCallum: radioman Harold Bride
- Alec McCowen: radio operator Harold Cottam
- Tucker McGuire Molly Brown
- John Merivale: Robbie Lucas
- Ralph Michael: Mr. Yates
- Laurence Naismith: Capt. Edward John Smith
- Russell Napier: Captain Stanley Lord
- Harold Goldblatt: Benjamin Guggenheim
- Bernard Fox: lookout Frederick Fleet
- Andrew Keir: Chief Engineer Joseph Bell
- Sean Connery: Sailor of the Titanic
- Desmond Llewelyn: Steerage Gate sailor
- Geoffrey Bayldon: radio operator Cyril Evans ( Californian )
- George Rose: Pastry Chef Charles Joughin
- John Moulder - Brown: Titanic Adjust yaw
The Night to Remember ( Original title A Night To Remember ) is a British film directed by Roy Ward Baker from the year 1958. He treated the sinking of the luxury liner RMS Titanic after hitting an iceberg in 1912. Was used as master the nonfiction work The Titanic disaster. The dramatic sinking of the luxury liner. (A Night to Remember ) by Walter Lord.
Action
The plot is just before the collision of the RMS Titanic with the iceberg on April 14, 1912, tells the shipwreck, including from the perspective of the second officer, Charles Lightoller.
Background
Acted as advisors 64 was still living survivor of the Titanic disaster, whose fates are processed in the movie; However, the author of the original book Walter Lord was not a relative of the captain of the involved in the sinking of the Titanic ship Californian, Stanley Lord, despite the similarity in name.
Filmed in England and Scotland black-and-white film was a role model for James Cameron's subsequent film version of the ship's destruction, Titanic. The actor Bernard Fox, who lookout Frederick Fleet embodied in this film, was involved in Cameron's film where he played the 1st Class passenger Col. Archibald Gracie.
As a backdrop for the scenes on the boat deck was the soon to be scrapped former ocean liner Asturias. While on the starboard side of the workers were already busy with the dismantling, the settings were filmed with the lifeboats on the port side.
In the film several recordings of the 1943 Nazi propaganda film Titanic incurred were cut, which is due to the accurate reconstruction of the ship in this adaptation.
Reviews
" Relying on eyewitness accounts, the three hours between collision and sinking are described great detail - which comprises treating the question of guilt remarkably restrained and ever little emphasis on the human problems of the situation. Significantly profile looser than Negulescos " Sinking of the Titanic ". "
" No particularly remarkable, however neatly made exciting entertainment movie. "
Awards
The film received a 1959 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama.
Media
DVD releases
- The last night of Titanic. Video Euro 2005
Film Music
- William Alwyn: A Night to Remember. Main Title. On: The Film Music of William Alwyn, Vol 2 Chandos, Colchester 2001, Media -No. CHAN 9959 - digital new recording of excerpts of film music by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Rumon Gamba