A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama film adaptation of Walter Lord's 1955 book, which recounts the final night of the RMS Titanic. Adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker, the film stars Kenneth More and features Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum and Tucker McGuire. It was filmed in the United Kingdom. The film focuses on the story of the sinking, portraying the major incidents and players in a documentary-style fashion with considerable attention to detail; the production team, supervised by producer William MacQuitty (who saw the original ship launched), used blueprints of the ship to create the sets accurately, while Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall and ex-Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge both worked as technical advisors on the film. Its budget of £600,000 (£11,868,805 adjusted for inflation (2012)) was exceptionally large for a British film and made it the most expensive film ever made in Britain up to that time.
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Directed by | Roy Ward Baker |
Produced by | William MacQuitty |
Screenplay by | Eric Ambler |
Story by | Walter Lord |
Starring | Kenneth More |
Music by | William Alwyn |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
Distributed by | The Rank Organisation
(United Kingdom) Paramount Pictures (United States) |
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Running time | 123 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £500,000 |
The film's World Premiere was on Thursday, 3 July 1958 at the Odeon Leicester Square. Titanic survivor Elizabeth Dowdell attended the American premiere in New York on Tuesday 16 December 1958. The film received critical acclaim upon release, and is still widely regarded as "the definitive cinematic telling of the story.".
Among the many films about the Titanic, A Night to Remember has long been regarded as the high point by Titanic historians and survivors alike for its accuracy, despite its modest production values when compared with the Oscar-winning version of Titanic.
Screenplay
In 1912, the Titanic is the largest vessel afloat and is widely believed to be unsinkable. Passengers aboard for her maiden voyage are the cream of American and British society. Boarding are first class passengers Sir Richard and Lady Richard, second class passengers Mr. Clarke and Mrs. Clarke, a young newly wed couple, and steerage passengers Mr. Murphy, Mr. Gallagher and Mr. James Farrel. Second Officer Charles Lightoller is also readying for the voyage. On 10 April, Titanic sails out to sea.
On 14 April, at sea, the ship receives a number of ice warnings from other steamers. Only a few of the messages are relayed to Captain Edward J. Smith, who orders a lookout, but does not slow the ship or consider changing course.
Late that night, the SS Californian spots float ice in the distance, and tries to send a message to the Titanic. On board the Titanic, the steerage passengers are enjoying their time on the ship when Murphy spies a young Polish girl, and asks her to dance with him. In the depths of the ship, Thomas Andrews, the ship's builder, inspects the boiler room. Up in the wireless room, wireless operators Jack Phillips and Harold Sydney Bride are changing shifts. Phillips receives an ice warning, but when more messages arrive for him to send out, it is lost under them.
On the Californian, field ice is spotted, and the ship stops, for it is too dangerous to proceed, and a message is sent to the Titanic. Because the Californian is so close, the message is very loud, and Phillips interrupts the message.
On the Titanic, passengers begin to settle in for the night, while some, including Mr. Hoyle and Jay Yates stay up to gamble. Suddenly, the vessel collides with an iceberg. Captain Smith sends for Thomas Andrews who goes to inspect the damage. Andrews determines that the ship will sink within two hours, and it lacks sufficient lifeboat capacity for everyone on board.
A distress signal is sent out, and efforts begin to signal the SS Californian, visible on the horizon 10 miles away, but its radio operator is off duty and does not hear the distress signal. Fortunately, the radio operator on the RMS Carpathia receives the distress call and alerts Captain Arthur Rostron, who orders the ship to head to the site. Unfortunately, the ship is 58 miles away, and will take around four hours to reach the Titanic. Meanwhile, the Californian remains where it is, the crew failing to comprehend why the large ship they are in sight of is firing rockets.
Captain Smith orders Officers Lightoller and William Murdoch to start lowering the lifeboats. On Lightoller's side, men are not allowed on board, but Murdoch, working the other side of the ship, is far more lenient, letting men board lifeboats. Chief Baker Charles Joughin, after giving up his space in a lifeboat, turns to the bottle to ease his ailments.
In the Grand Staircase, Robbie Lucas runs into Mr. Andrews and asks if the ship is seriously damaged. Andrews tells him to get his wife and children into the boats. Lucas rouses his children and wife to go to the lifeboats. He gets them safety in a boat, and turns away, realizing he will never see his family again. Murphy, Gallagher, and Farrel help the Polish girl, and her mother find their way though the ship, and get them in a lifeboat. The Richards, and Hoyle are admitted to a boat by Murdoch. Yates gives a female passenger a note to send to his sister. Andrews advises the Clarkes on how to escape the sinking ship. As the stewards struggle to hold back women and children in third-class, most of those from first- and second-class board the lifeboats and launch away from the ship. The ship quickly fills with water, and the passengers begin to realize the danger, as the ship lists more and more. When the third-class passengers are allowed up from below, chaos ensues.
The Titanic's bow submerges, and only two collapsible lifeboats are left. Lightoller, Murdoch and remaining officers and other able seamen struggle to free them, when the ship begins its final plunge. Captain Smith remained on the Titanic's bridge when the forward superstructure went under, and died there. Lightoller, Murdoch and many others are swept off the ship. Thomas Andrews, who is asked if he will save himself, remains in the first-class smoking room, lamenting his failure to build a strong and safe ship. Passengers jump into the sea as the stern rises high into the air. The Clarkes, struggling in the water, are killed by a falling funnel. The stricken liner rapidly sinks into the icy sea.
Many passengers, including Lucas, and Farrel, die of hypothermia. One of the collapsibles is floating overturned, so Lightoller and a few more men balance on it and wait. Yates, denied access to the upturned boat, calls out, “Good luck. God bless you", and swims away to drown himself; Lightoller urges him, in vain, to come back. Murphy and Gallagher make it to the collapsible, and are taken on board. Joughin holds onto the side, not minding the cold because he's been drinking, and is eventually taken aboard. Lightoller spots another boat, and the men are saved. The Carpathia comes and rescues the survivors. Lightoller expresses that he "don't think I'll ever feel sure again. About anything."
On the Carpathia, after a group prayer, Lightoller is told by Rostron told the numbers of the saved and lost. In all, 1500 people are lost; 705 are alive. The wireless operator comes on deck to inform Rostron that the Californian has just heard about Titanic's sinking and ask if they can do anything. Rostron says anything "that was humanly possible has been done".
- Kenneth More as Second Officer Charles Lightoller
- Michael Goodliffe as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews
- Laurence Naismith as Captain Edward J. Smith
- Kenneth Griffith as Wireless Operator Jack Phillips
- David McCallum as Assistant Wireless Operator Harold Sydney Bride
- Tucker McGuire as Mrs. Margaret 'Molly' Brown
- Frank Lawton as chairman J. Bruce Ismay
- Richard Leech as First Officer William Murdoch
- John Cairney as Mr. Murphy
- Richard Clarke as Martin Gallagher
- Patrick McAlinney as Mr. James Farrell
- Anthony Bushell as Captain Arthur Rostron
- Alec McCowen as Wireless Operator Harold Thomas Cottam, SS Carpathia
- Ronald Allen as Mr. Clarke
- Jill Dixon as Mrs. Clarke
- Geoffrey Bayldon as Wireless Operator Cyril Evans, SS Californian
- George Rose as Chief Baker Charles Joughin
- John Merivale as Robbie Lucas
- Honor Blackman as Mrs. Liz Lucas
- Robert Ayers as Arthur Godfrey Peuchen
- Ralph Michael as Jay Yates
- James Dyrenforth as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV
- Russell Napier as Captain Stanley Lord
- Jane Downs as Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller
- Patrick Waddington as Sir Richard
- Harriette Johns as Lady Richard
- Redmond Phillips as Mr. Hoyle
- Joseph Tomelty as Dr. William O'Loughlin
- Jack Watling as Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
- Michael Bryant as Sixth Officer James Moody
- Howard Lang as Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde (uncredited)
- Cyril Chamberlain as Quartermaster Rowe
- Bee Duffell as Mrs. Farrell
- Harold Goldblatt as Benjamin Guggenheim
- Gerald Harper as Third Officer, SS Carpathia
- Thomas Heathcote as Steward
- Andrew Keir as Second Engineer Officer John Henry 'Harry' Hesketh
- Howard Pays as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
- Harold Siddons as Second Officer Herbert Stone, SS Californian
- Julian Somers as Mr. Bull
- Rosamund Greenwood as Mrs. Bull (uncredited)
- Charles Belchier as Bandleader Wallace Hartley (uncredited)
- Emerton Court as Chief Engineer Joseph G. Bell
- Teresa Thorne as Miss Edith Russell (uncredited)
- John Moulder Brown as boy (uncredited)
- Henry Campbell as William T. Stead (uncredited)
- Larry Taylor as bearded seaman (uncredited)
- Ray Austin as seaman (uncredited)
- Edward Malin as Dining Saloon Steward
- John Martin as Lost Boy
- Victor Wood as Steward
- Richard Shaw as Crewman
- Jack Stewart as Stoker (uncredited)
- Sean Connery as Steerage passenger (uncredited)
- Olwen Brookes as Miss Evans (uncredited)
- Paul Hardwick as Guggenheim's Valet (uncredited)
Cast notes:
- Gordon Holdom - baritone, sang the song "Nearer, My God, to Thee" dubbed.
- Desmond Llewelyn makes an uncredited appearance as a gate steward who prevents the third class passengers from entering the first class deck.
- Peter Burton makes an appearance as a steward.
- Bernard Fox, who appears as Lookout Frederick Fleet and utters the famous words, "Iceberg, dead ahead, sir", also appears as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV in Titanic (1997).
- Norman Rossington plays a steward who loses his temper with non-English speaking passengers just after the collision. Rossington 20 years later played the Sergeant-at-Arms in SOS Titanic (1979).
- Derren Nesbitt and Stratford Johns appear uncredited as survivors on the upturned lifeboat.
- Frank Lawton, who plays J. Bruce Ismay, previously starred in 1933's Cavalcade, which also prominently featured the Titanic.
The film is based on Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955), but in Ray Johnson's documentary The Making of 'A Night to Remember' (1993), Lord says that when he wrote his book, there was no mass interest in the Titanic, and he was the first writer in four decades to attempt a grand-scale history of the disaster, synthesizing written sources and survivors’ firsthand accounts. Lord dated the genesis of his interest in the subject to childhood. So did producer MacQuitty, who, as a boy of six, watched the Titanic set out from Belfast, as well as screenwriter Ambler, who was a lad in London when the ship was launched. MacQuitty had seen Titanic being launched on 31 May 1911 and still remembered the occasion vividly. He also watched the maiden voyage departure the following year.
The book has been previously adapted as a live adaptation screened on 28 March 1956 by NBC TV and sponsored by Kraft Foods as part of the Kraft Television Theatre strand. It has been described as "the biggest, most lavish, most expensive thing of its kind" attempted up to that point, with 31 sets, 107 actors, 72 speaking parts, 3,000 gallons of water and costing $95,000 ($855,116.3 at present-day prices). George Roy Hill directed and Claude Rains provided a narration – a practice borrowed from radio dramas which provided a template for many television dramas of the time. It took a similar approach to the book, lacking dominant characters and switching between a multiplicity of scenes. Rains' narration was used "to bridge the almost limitless number of sequences of life aboard the doomed liner", as a reviewer put it, and closed with his declaration that "never again has Man been so confident. An age had come to an end." The production was a major hit, attracting 28 million viewers, and greatly boosted the book's sales. It was rerun on kinescope on 2 May 1956, five weeks after its first broadcast.
The film adaptation came about after its eventual director, Roy Ward Baker, and its producer, B
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