The Making Of A Night To Remember

[@rustys9190]

a night to remember is one of the BEST films on titanic I have ever seen and I have seen them all

[@Ethan52108]

Rusty S Late reply, but I agree. Most of them are just inaccurate, just has some weird fictional romance or is complete crap.

[@bonniescott6470]

Rusty S I agree 👍

[@McIntyreBible]

I think the entire film crew did a phenomenal job in making each scene on the ocean look authentic!

[@MicaRayan]

They make the set and all! What a marvelous movie ❤

[@johnfalstaff2270]

As a former shipyard worker, I can truly understand anger and disappointment of British and Irish workers in Belfast when they learned that their three-year effort to build this floating marvel was wasted just within four days. I guess those who never worked in big shipyards would not understand it.

[@abbysdiamondpainting]

yeah, i'd be p.o for sure

[@ToreDL87]

@Jamie And how many were lost building the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal, the the the the... THE? But no, blame the Titanic for it's 5 worker related deaths (1 of which was when building the gantry used to build her, and that gantry was used until the early 80's) lol Wind blows the wrong way = Blame the Titanic. Considering lax safety procedures of the time, the building of the Titanic was considered to be an examplary good safety record.

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

I thoroughly disagree-you think shipyard workers are the only ones who take great care and pride in their work?Anyone who has built anything to be proud of for another person or company would be utterly diisgusted and angry if their creation was wantonly destroyed through the negligence of the buyer. You owe the craftsmen and craftswomen of the world an apology.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@ToreDL87 The point is that the workers of Harland and Wolff were skilled and dedicated professionals who put their heats into building the Titanic. I've never worked in a shipyard but I can understand why they would have felt anger and disappointment. To some, I'm sure it would have seemed that the deaths of those who'd died during her construction had been in vain. Three years to build her , but lost in only four days. I would have been angry, too.

[@harrietharlow9929]

I've never worked in a shipyard, but I can understand their feelings. Three years to build her and then, she was lost after only 4 days. I'd feel that way, too.

[@terrythekittieful]

Was only watching the remastered version on TV last night...brilliant resolution, brilliant movie. The scene with the father kissing his sleeping son goodbye was very touching, he knew it would likely be the last time he would see his little boy.

[@straingedays]

(pre 1955) Our grandpa was a carpenter for Pinewood Studios. He had many jobs before & after. But forever fondly remembered being onset silently watching famous stars and some of his heartthrobs performing their scenes but yards away.

[@robharding1957]

This is what that legend is all about, the man who made that great film, saw what many of us never did.he saw the birth of a legend.

[@josephtreacy667]

Remember my dear old dad taking me to see this when I was about 6. Watched it again recently. Far far better than the utter bilge of the more recent excuse.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

The discovery that the ship broke in half would not be discovered til 1985 , a good while after the author's death. Another historic moment is the timeline for this documentary. The WTC was still standing! Cool film of the REAL people with the actors. Kenneth Moore with the widow of his character,. A real officer from the Titanic. WOW!!!

[@toosiyabrandt8676]

HI Apparently the survivors were telling about the Titanic breaking in half right from the start but were accused of over dramatising!

[@EuphemiaGrubb]

Eva Hart, who witnessed the sinking, described how the Titanic broke in two. Also I didn't think much of Kenneth Moore standing with a cigarette butt hanging from his mouth all the time he was talking to Officer Lightoller's wife.

[@Gryffindor_-gv3jm]

The best Titanic movie ever

[@susandruce1064]

this is probably the best and truest version of the Titanic disaster made

[@harrietharlow9929]

I love the movie "A Night to Remember" so it's nice to see the story behind its making.

[@SuperBettyboop40]

I love this movie!

[@johnfalstaff2270]

No stars? Americans complained no stars. Really? Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman were great British movie stars at the time when movie was released. Their performance was heaven more realistic then all Hollywood perfumed makeups.

[@TarotMage]

According to IMDB, a pre-James Bond Sean Connery has an unbilled role as a steerage passenger.

[@MayorMcCheeseStalker]

Excellent post, John Falstaff. Just one question --- who are Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, and Honor Blackman? Thanks. Signed -- a perfumed American.

[@AvengerII]

They were stars in the UK, not the US! The other thing is Hollywood is a marketing machine based on notoriety, NOT quality. Hollywood is a business before they even consider an art angle. The art is one of the last major considerations which is why most modern entertainment is what it is. This is WHY they screwed up the last two seasons of Game of Thrones, the last four Star Wars movies, Star Trek after 2009, and many other things. Hollywood tries to game movies and TV shows by using elements that are familiar to people and that means casting well-known names AND remaking movies and TV shows people are already familiar with. Because they are trying to insert known-names into roles instead of casting people who are RIGHT for roles (they can act, they LOOK like their characters) AND don't finetune scripts before shooting this is why they get expensive disasters. There are very few of these mega-blockbusters that actually break even because by the time they finish adding up costs (production, advertising, profit participation points, distribution), these films are costing well over $200 million in many cases and you're talking AT LEAST $400 million to break even!!!

[@Ailuj234]

Kenneth More, one of our finest actors. Who could say less🇬🇧

[@dtaylor4552]

A Night To Remember should give itself over to animation as a movie.

[@sheristewart3940]

I can't tell how many times I have seen a reproduction of this film, Titanic, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner, Richard Basehart, et al. Every time it played on television, I watched in awe. Thanks for uploading this informative gem! It's priceless.

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

This was a very well made movie. The best about the Titanic. Much more realistic. Thanks

[@rockslide4802]

Superb. Thank you so much for sharing it.

[@jeromemckenna7102]

A wonderful film, probably the best on the subject. It was made when people still remembered the Titanic sinking and when people still traveled by ship.

[@Kanefan701]

I remember this from my childhood days. Thank you dude.

[@michaelsergejhelgesson7889]

I missed the movie when I was a child. It was shown on german tv in october 1970. I was 5 years old, and couldn't stay awake till when it started late in the night. Yesterday - 50 years and 4 months later - I finally got to see it on KZbin!

[@JamesDaffyBenderDonald]

This is excellent, totally excellent :)

[@hollykacz1958]

This was an outstanding and realistic film.

[@michaelevans205]

What an outstanding insight. Thanks for the upload.

[@Titanic-wo6bq]

0:40 THIS FILM IS UNSINKABLE!

[@nicholaskelly6375]

What a Wonderful account of what is by far the best film ever produced about RMS TITANIC. I am sure that the loss of RMS TITANIC was where in time and space "The Doubt" in Britain actually started.

[@model-man7802]

Great Video,Love this Movie!

[@KebabMusicLtd]

Interesting documentary. I must have first read Walter Lords book in 1975 and later I read a sequel called 'The Night Lives On' where he responded to a lot of negative comments made about his book, especially by Lordites, or people who had formed the opinion that Captain Stanley Lord of the SS Californian was not the silent ghost ship seen in the night from the decks of the sinking Titanic. What I didn't realise was that Walter Lord also acted as an advisor on Camerons 1997 film about the legend of Jack and Rose.

[@powerballminep67]

When many years ago I discovered the film Night To Remember was shot on Ruislip Lido, near to where I live, I imagined a giant rusting hulk, a model Titanic resting on the bottom of the lido not unlike the real ship, left to rot after filming had finished. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered they only shot the lifeboat scenes on the lido and not the actual model ship used. underway. That was filmed in the big film studio, Pinewood I think.

[@harrietharlow9929]

If my memory serves me rightly, this is the only Titanic movie that shows Lightoller and the others standing on the overturned collapsible.

[@sleepeasy-asmr8071]

'too late, the saddest words in any language'

[@sheiladesoysa7112]

Very interesting to see details of how the story was brought alive based on a book based on clever research. A real masterpiece. The best thing about this film is there were no fake movie stars. 😅

[@johnfalstaff2270]

"A Night to Remember" really is the best film describing that tragedy released so far. Forget about American Hollywood version of 1953 and most recent James Cameron color picture. Those two last are tear-jerkers with unnecessary dull insipid romantic accents. Even Germans released their (Hitler/Goebbels) version of Titanic in 1944.

[@jtothepiz]

Did you mean 1997?

[@rickkennett3192]

He meant the 1953 version starring Barbara Stanwyck.

[@hmpstd]

No, he was referring to the 1953 film Titanic, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb, in B/W from 20th Century-Fox.

[@mrpontyboi]

And A Night To Remember used footage from that Nazi propoganda video in their film.

[@dtaylor4552]

Titanic the legend goes on should be remade by Warner Brothers Animation in Great Britain as Tom and Jerry's Night To Remember in loving memory of William MacQuitty.

[@mikeemerson9832]

So much better than Cameron's 'Titanic' where he tried to make a love story out of a tragedy.

[@minchum9126]

Still a tragedy

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

And a badly written one, at that. The dialogue was painful. There was one.... 1996, I think. It was a t.v. movie with George C. Scott as Captain Smith, Marilu Henner, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry. A good story and the affects served the purpose, they weren't meant to be a showcase, as the Cameron version did.

[@Powerranger-le4up]

Joseph Laroche and his wife Juliette were an actual love story between Titanic passengers.

[@HAL_NINER_TRIPLE_ZERO]

Made for $1.7M in 1957. Or $9.4M in 1996 dollars. Cameron's version which cost over $200M was a terrific film, but I don't think it was 20 times better than this film.

[@tedh7521]

In my opinion this was the best rendition with fact based accounts of what really happend that terrible night, no stupid story about first class mixing with third class.

[@mrpontyboi]

Yet British people played real life American victims, the ship didnt break in 2 even though numerous survivor accounts stated that it did....It was impressive for the time with the sets and all but the 1997 version is far more accurate even if you don't appreciate the story there is no denying it gets alot more of the facts actually correct.

[@rainpop3036]

Yes and nobody standing on the bow flying

[@Billygoatsgrruff]

@@mrpontyboi no it didn't

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@Billygoatsgrruff Not in the movie, but as we now know the Titanic actually did break in two before going under. However that wasn't common knowledge at the time. It wasn't really known until Ballard discovered. her in 1985.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@rainpop3036 And that's a good thing.

[@madnatty]

I much prefer this film, A Night to Remember, than James Cameron’s Titanic.

[@juniourst3ven596]

Why?

[@dtaylor4552]

Warner Brothers Animation should do a branch in the UK if they make Tom and Jerry's Night To Remember.

[@vickermaxx]

Titanic is a romantic movie A night to remember looks like a documentary film

[@Mrmusic-ck6de]

St3vEn BaDu why are you watching this then

[@fakie8515]

@@juniourst3ven596 because james cameron is foccused on a love story

[@mariacrumble-hulme8674]

The best Titanic film of all 🕊🙏😇✝️💕

[@everettmenard5196]

Watch the movie this morning and I thought it was great. met a man who was second class back when I was in grade school as a kid. His name is listed in the book A Night to Remember as one of the survivors .

[@CaptainColdyron222]

This movie got me interested in the Titanic. I used to always watch these old movies with my dad on TV in the evening. I was about seven or eight at the time. My pops was always interested in history and passed his interest onto me. It was also watching Sink The Bismarck with him that got me interested in WWII. Come to think of it Kenneth More starred in both films. On a side note it was quite sad to see the mighty King George V waiting for the breakers in this documentary.

[@robharding1957]

Well said William, you speak the truth,

[@williamf4544]

Wow thank you very much - but if you dont mind me asking how did you know what i was going to say 5 years before i said it ?

[@McIntyreBible]

52:46, "It's too late" the saddest words in ANY language.

[@robertscott7625]

Yes indeed it is, Brilliant

[@MerleOberon]

Every shock and sensation intact.

[@terr777]

This film is the reason the story continues to be relevant. I do wonder how the "women and children first" thing would go today.

[@jackbluehq6653]

Naa they don't do that nowadays because people are to sensitive, sure you may first question why they did the whole "woman and children first" But actually it makes sense. Men can biologically stronger and in a situation like the Titanic you have to think logically. Sure no-one is He-Man but logically it makes more sense.

[@hardsam68]

Way better than the fictional characters of Cameron’s overbloated movie

[@brewcrew5854]

i had to stop for a minute half way through to ask myself if i really want to know some of the film tricks it could negatively affect me on one of the most influential films i ever saw. ???

[@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY]

It is true in that scene where the funnel collapsed, it missed Lightoller by inches.

[@STFCstoneroses]

Best Titanic movie

[@prince17618]

Big fan frm india, watch all titanics , 1958 is the best movie, mr. Lightoler in movie as well as in real life was really an inspirational officer i heard his bbc interview, the titanic of 1943german version looking too old as if they shooted the movie in 1912, and their bruce ismay was looking real

[@Chuck0856]

As good as the newest version, this one is better.

[@rainpop3036]

Check out Bills tie..Bill was a founder member of Ulster Television

[@Powerranger-le4up]

I like James Cameron’s version the most, but A Night To Remember is a close second in my book.

[@christiesmith1255]

So much better than the movie by James Cameron.

[@barbaradyson6951]

As a younger man, he looks like george sanders.

[@johnfalstaff2270]

Funny thing, I always thought Walter Lord was a son of the infamous s/s Californian Master, Stanley Lord. I was wrong. Walter was born and passed away in the United States.

[@MegaWolfgang]

Another interesting fact. Stanley Lord was a very old man but still alive when this movie was released and he started a law suite against the film. He lost of course. I am a little surprised this documentary did not mention this?

[@McIntyreBible]

7:50, these are facts I wasn't aware of!

[@aydancasey1953]

The reason Shaw Savill pulled out of the production was that their Chairman was the son-in-law of Bruce Ismay!

[@andrewjames3908]

Pity they burnt all the sets I would love to build a house and fit it out with that grand staircase, d deck reception room, dining saloon and smoking room

[@alexbaker9967]

Why did the burn them

[@alexbaker9967]

Can you tell me

[@alexbaker9967]

They could've been sold to the public for us to buy

[@marcushayden]

when was this docco made?

[@MerleOberon]

1993

[@sheiladesoysa7112]

Whatever anyone might say i think James Camerons movie was an epic. The special effects were mind boggling and it kept to the real facts. The love story was just cosmetic. Even the "stars' and their acting did not detract from the actual tragedy because it was based on fact. I loved it and cried for the poor passengers and mr andrews and capt smith. Was it an act of God? Was it the beginning of the end of British arrogant false superiority? Makes me wonder.

[@fredwild190]

What happened to the big ship model?

[@fanboy2015]

Best Titanic movie ever made.

[@juniourst3ven596]

Minus the split of the ship

[@raynetterorie6186]

I second that, much better movie than James Cameron version.

[@matthewlundy8713]

What happened to the Titanic and Carpathia models?

[@fanboy2015]

Geoffery Unsworth, Cinematographer for 1978’s SUPERMAN THE MOVIE.

[@jjgreek1]

Did they ever use those giant anchors once placed on the ship?

[@JamesCarmichael]

See I've read that the fanfare for Titanic wasn't as great as it was for the Olympic during April 2nd on the cast off for her maiden voyage. Titanic was the second and not even the biggest promised in that particular line of ships. It was the awkward middle sister ship. It's funny because the Olympic went on to have a fair and successful career all things considered and was even nicknamed "The Old Reliable." But it's left more in the wake of Titanic's and Britannic's historical significance. Understandable from a social and layman perspective of course, but all three of those ships had interesting taies to tell. I love A Night to Remember however. It was a lot more balanced than James Cameron's movie. The characters seemed more human and there was a lot more depth with the story and lore. Later discoveries would nullify a few points such as the ship not breaking in two in the movie, but it would have been unbelieveably dark that night and many people wouldn't have seen it happen hence their decisions in the movie to depict it as such.

[@vaskarbubu3069]

i loved the movie...i had downloaded it

[@juniourst3ven596]

Was this a real ship or a replica/studio set specifically made for the movie?!

[@dtaylor4552]

Titanic the legend goes on should be remade by Warner Brothers Animation in Britain as Tom and Jerry's Night To Remember in loving memory of William MacQuitty.

[@himynameis.5194]

A night to remember:im so famous untill titanic came out titanic:what did you say?

[@ultravibez3170]

I would love to see a colored version of this movie

[@harrietharlow9929]

I agree with large biff that it is more authentic in black-and-white. However if you want a color (or at least colorised) version here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amelkJ9rpNOmmLs

[@xXOpenYourHeart759Xx]

@largebiff1743 but in 1912, the real events happened in color so wouldn't that be more "authentic?" I know what you meant though. Movies filmed in black and white are made to be viewed as such because the filmmakers filmed them differently than they would in color. But I found a color version on youtube that I liked watching because I could see more details that I would've otherwise missed. The coloring isn't that well done by today's standards.

[@MDkid1]

When William McQuitty was younger he looked like Bill Pullman.

[@thebipolarbear1]

If only people would have started fires like the woman that lights her hat to be rescued at the end maybe then the Californian would have payed more attention and even investigated. Amazing film my titanic go to then camerons. Rest In Peace all the souls lost on that night

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

A bit of bts fun; since they had to wait for a while to set up the scene, the actors started to dry up, so they chucked buckets of water at each other to keep themselves wet!

[@gregthompson3274]

The best Titanic movie by far,much better than that Cameron silly movie

[@rockslide4802]

Superlative.

[@patstokes3615]

There were 20 lifeboat the setting for 1178 people, so how is it that they only save 700 people. That is almost 500 people that could have been saved. How is it possible that those that loaded the boats could have been so ill inform on the number to be seated. Those men had no idea because no one very told them. Just one word by someone that knew that number would have save hundreds.

[@WhoDaresWins-B20]

Sorry but it wasn't the most accurate film on the sinking of Titanic. Whilst the film was extremely well made and appeared realistic; quite a few facts were not so. The film itself made one believe that it was absolutely accurate. That was due to British Brilliance when it came to making films. I know I sound bombastic, but I am proud to be British. I have had an interest in this ship since the age of 8 years of age. My grandmother who was a young girl of 6 years recalled the sailing of Titanic and her sinking. Granny regaled me with stories of her. My father a Marine Engineer fostered my dreams of Titanic and her two sister ships; Olympic and Britannic. I watched two films on Titanic one with Clifton WebAs a young man; I joined the Titanic Historical Society in Indian Orchard Mass. USA and saved up all copies of the Titanic Commutator put out each quarter. I subsequently purchased an ENTEX model of Titanic. My young son aged five could not get enough of Titanic. he read every book he could get his hands on and as a young lad, surprised his teachers when he told them how many rivets went into the hull.

[@koalastralia]

Hi Angus, my Scottish grandfather, William Muir was 10 years old when his cousin, William McMaster Murdoch was on the Titanic. Little known fact is they have a family connection to Commodore John Paul Jones (revolutionary war hero and a founding father of the U.S. Navy). John's sister, Mary Ann Paul Louden was their 3x great aunt.

[@TheNotverysocial]

Five minutes in, I'm sure he's glad to not have been on board, or he might not have been here in 1970 something.

[@harrietharlow9929]

Fun fact: when Walter Lord was a youngster, he talked his parents into sailing for home on the Olympic, Titanic's older sister. That would have been the closest thing to being on the Titanic herself.

[@Ailuj234]

Kenneth More was so handsome ❤

[@MrAaronaltman]

Showing real actors as opposed to CGI made the sinking more horrible and gutwrenching.

[@BestBuds]

5:08 doesn't he mean April 10?

[@bradwilmot5066]

Well, Titanic left Belfast on April 2 for her "trials", then left for Southampton, so technically, it's true...

[@momthree789]

Launched: 31 May 1911 Completed: 2 April 1912 Maiden voyage: 10 April 1912 In service: 10-15 April 1912

[@dtaylor4552]

@@bradwilmot5066 Titanic the legend goes on should be remade by DreamWorks SKG as "Walter Lord's A Night To Remember" in loving memory of William MacQuitty.

[@andrewjames3908]

Wonder what happened to Edith Russels pig after Walter Lord died?

[@andrewjames3908]

also wish those minature electric lifeboats had been kept, they make me smile

[@jtothepiz]

Where is the the spliting and all funnels falling?

[@bradwilmot5066]

Not discovered until 1985, nearly 30 years after the film was made. (It doesn't help that the inquiries ignored the testimony that she broke in half...)

[@CB3474]

There was the dummy funnel that fell on top of the honeymooners when it was sinking in the movie.

[@wispa1a]

Everyone in the country (100k estimated)

[@mimoslavija]

Is great like Titanic from 1997

[@gregjsinclair]

wow

[@michaelneel4828]

That one women Edith Russel gets on my nerves ! She acts so much above the rest of the passengers UGH !!!

[@TarotMage]

You have to remember that this was the early 1900's -- socially prominent people were that generation's celebrities. It's totally wrong but it was very easy for people born into power and wealth to feel superior.

[@carlosborrasetaylor7630]

100 ❤

[@GermanShepherd1983]

Too bad the trailer gives away the climax that the ship sinks. No use seeing the movie now.

[@wispa1a]

Still today have not hit it's budget spends