A Night To Remember (1958 Titanic Movie)

[Ptarmigan]

I just saw A Night To Remember, which is based on Walter Lord's novel. It is a quite good movie and straightforward. It has no subplots and good special effects for its time. Some of the scenes looked similar to James Cameron's Titanic, especially where you see objects starting to fall onto the floor. The Titanic sinks in one piece, not violently split into two pieces. It is worth your 2 hours.

IMDB-A Night To Remember

[Aslkahuna]

In certain respects that movie is much more historically accurate than "Titanic". Especially WRT the incident involving the Californian which was stuck in ice 10 miles from where Titanic went down and the incident involving the ice message that never reached the Bridge or the Keep Out transmission from Titanic when the other ship tried to send another ice message. Titanic did indeed break in two as it went down but shipbuilding engineers feel that she could have never gone vertical since the aft section would have broken into more pieces. Cameron's movie never explains why the Titanic fired rockets. A "Night to Remember" is based upon Walter Lord's book of the same name and follows it closely. The book is based upon actual stories of survivors.

Steve

[Miss Mary]

I remember watching this movie as a young child. It was frightening to say the least. I can still picture one scene vividly - the one of a little girl and father. She was on one side of their cabin and he on the other, by the door to the corridor I think. The room split into two and she could see down several floors to fires, eruptions, steam escaping. She was screaming and I was about to! Why did my parents let me see this movie you may ask - I don't know but I was under the age of 10! Didn't the father use a bed frame or dresser drawer and she had to inch her way across it to safety?

Yes it was a good movie. I don't think I slept well for several nights though afterwards.

Mary

[Ptarmigan]

Aslkahuna:
I have not read A Night To Remember, but I hear it is a good novel. The movies is considered the best Titanic movie.

Miss Mary:
Titanic was truly a tragic news event. It was the Pearl Harbor, JFK Assassination, and 9/11 of their time.

[cajungal]

I own both the book and the movie. I have always been fascinated by the Titanic for many years. I collected several books and own at 2 movies and 2 documentarys on the movie. I usually never can never get through either the book or the movie without crying.

[Jim Cantore]

This has always been an event I've taken intrest in, especially because nobody can seem to agree on what ACTUALLY happened.

I'll have to check this movie out.

[Aslkahuna]

The thing about Titanic was that everyone was so sure that Man had triumphed over nature so when the ship went down it shook everyone up. Also the Victorian Caste structure of Society was never quite the same with the First Class survivors (especially male ones) being pilloried. Two years later, of course, WWI started. Walter Lord's book is the closest to ever knowing what precisely happened. He also wrote a book about Pearl Harbor. The problem with historical events of this type is that the pace of events and the shock of what is happening messes with the memory.

Steve

[streetsoldier]

I've seen most of the Titanic movies, and watched a small number of "Discovery Channel"-type undersea explorations of the wreck.

But, what sticks in my mind is...the pairs of shoes, side-by-side on the ocean floor between the aft and main sections. Men's...women's...children's shoes, still in close pairs, as if their long-gone owners were standing inside them.

Nothing brought the disaster "home" to me like viewing those pairs of shoes...sobering.

[JenBayles]

You are so right Streets'. It was just a tragedy all the way around. Viewing actual aritifacts from the Titanic always chokes me up.