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A Night to Remember (1958)

Action | 123 minutes
3,75 203 votes

Genre: Drama / History

Duration: 123 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen and Honor Blackman

IMDb score: 7,9 (19.469)

Releasedate: 3 July 1958

A Night to Remember plot

"The night the unsinkable sank"

The story of the 'unsinkable' ship Titanic, which rammed into an ice floe and ended up at the bottom of the sea. Radio calls for help, but no one responds. There are too few lifeboats for all passengers, and the 'women and children first' is often drowned out by the 'higher social class first'.

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Actors and actresses

Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller

Mr. Clarke

Maj. Arthur Peuchen

Mrs. Liz Lucas

Capt. Arthur Rostron

Mr. Murphy

Mrs. Clarke

Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller

Col. Archibald Gracie

Thomas Andrews

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Pieter Montana

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Quite blown away by this gem. We all know James Cameron's version of Titanic by now (a version I greatly appreciate, by the way), so I wasn't exactly thrilled at first to watch an older version of the same sinking boat story.

Definitely not. Where Cameron's version had to call upon Céline Dion and thunderous special effects, the British version throws all pathos overboard (pun intended). The documentary-like style and the absence of a real main character (although Kenneth More is fantastic in his role as Lightoller) give an original twist to this disaster film. With every passing minute, you see the panic slowly building. Thanks to the mosaic approach, a small mini-drama unfolds every 5 minutes, after which the focus shifts to another passenger, until the tragic ending. Who didn't get the jitters from the stomping feet and the screaming? The whole thing might come across as messy, but for me, it worked.

Let's also all take a moment to appreciate the endearing role of that food cart. 4*

By the way, you can find some great behind the scenes photos here.

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james_cameron

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An impressive film adaptation of Walter Lord's 1955 book of the same name, produced at the time through extensive research and numerous interviews with the survivors of the Titanic disaster. That attention to detail is also present in the film, which portrays the disaster in a convincing and compelling manner. The almost documentary-style approach to the events is a major plus; additionally, the film is quite impressive technically. It is incredible what was already achieved in that field as early as 1958.

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Chainsaw

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It is worth seeing, if only, where Cameron drew much of the inspiration for his film; many scenes and elements have been adopted almost verbatim in his version. But apart from that, A Night to Remember is an exceptionally strong film with still extremely impressive special effects. Effects that were partly borrowed from the 1943 Nazi propaganda version. A Night to Remember feels (partly due to the absence of a hero or – as Cameron added – a lengthy romantic plot) like a realistic portrayal of what happened on board at the time, with a number of details that we did not see in Cameron's film. However, other elements, such as the ship supposedly breaking in two during the sinking, were precisely not yet known when this version was made. A Night to Remember is not a heavily romanticized and exaggerated disaster film, but above all a gripping and captivating narrative that still holds up 63 years later.

4.5 stars.

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