Presents
A Night to Remember
Plot:
A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later
part of Cunard) luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic's sinking from the standpoint of 2nd
Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller, himself the most senior of the ill-fated
ship's Deck Officers to survive the disaster. (Lightoller later went on to
distinguish himself as a line British Naval Officer during the First World War
and served as a Senior Naval Staff Officer (convoys) during WWII. Between wars
he owned and operated a successful family business producing pleasure craft.)
His own survival of the sinking, along with several others, is shown atop one of
the liner's two "collapsible" lifeboats which was capsized in floating off the
liner as it sank. The picture depicts then known facts (c1958) as reported after
the sinking; such as the woeful lack of adequate lifeboats, the ship's band
playing true to the very end, White Star's co-owner Bruce Ismay's somewhat less
than chivalrous departure from the sinking vessel -and- the Titanic's designer
(Andrews, on-board) revelation that due to the severity of below-the-water-line
damage and that the vaunted watertight compartments were not designed to nor
sealed up to the weather deck, would only delay the inevitable as sea water
spilled over the top of one to the next from the bows to the stern. It also
addresses the mysterious ship seen from the Titanic's bridge stopped some 12-19
miles off and depicts it as being the S.S. Californian, whom - if that steamship
had responded, the loss of life could have been far, far less. The Californian
is seen stopped due to the ice warnings, the same alerts whose import were
undervalued by the Titanic's Captain Smith. She herself had shut-down wireless
operations, nominally at 11:00pm as her sole operator retired for the evening,
this before the iceberg was struck and the 1st distress calls were made by
Titanic. It also addresses somewhat the coal fire in one of Titanic's bunkers -
apparently not uncommon back in those days, before her departure into the
Atlantic and potential for damage to steel plates below the water line. (This
picture predates the calling-into-question of the quality of rivets (metalurgy)
which has since come to the fore.) The film also shows the class distinction and
its impact as to whom - of the "women and children first," got a seat in a boat;
the fact that the first/earliest lifeboats launched were not at full capacity;
and that the boats launched from the port and starboard side held to different
criteria as to loading. The latter allows the viewer an inference as to the
importance for crew and passenger alike as to lifeboat drills which were then
(1912) neither required nor ever held aboard Titanic. One of several movies on
the subject, it stands well the test-of-time for its "just the facts" approach
in the telling and avoidance of conjecture or added melodrama.
Actors:
Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman
Director:
Roy Ward Baker
Original Title............. A Night to Remember
Release Date............... 17.12.2017
Store Date................. 15.07.2014
Cinedate / STV............. 16 Dec 1958
Production................. Criterion Collection
Genre ..................... Biography, Drama, History
Runtime ................... 123 min
Source .................... BD25
Audio Dolby Digital ....... 2.0: English
Audio LPCM ................ 2.0: German
Subtitles ................. German
Videoformat................ 1920 x 1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Size ...................... 49 X 500 MB
iMDB Rating ............... 7.9
iMDB Link ................. http://imdb.com/title/tt0051994
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