The Original Titanic Movie- The Story of 'A Night to Remember'

[@OCDTitanic]

I must agree, A Night to Remember is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and by far my favorite. It's wonderful.

[@stephenrafter1022]

What a great piece of history. Told very well. That ship has great power over some people, RIP

[@lukaasvanhout7154]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@Cassxowary]

*“James Cameron didn’t make the first Titanic, I did.” There was at least 9 Titanic productions before ANtR, THE FIRST OF WHICH WAS WRITTEN BY AND STARRED DOROTHY GIBSON WHO WAS A SURVIVOR AND WORE WHAT SHE WORE IN THE LIFEBOAT!* he means the other biggest grossing one in recent memory...

[@thecaptain2148]

to be fair, he did say first titanic "hit" movie.

[@Titan52berg]

The Titanic Historical Society still regards "A Night to Remember" as the BEST, HISTORICAL retelling of the Titanic tragedy!

[@sweetlildevil7597]

That's unfortunate.

[@Ziegler-boothBlogspot]

I must say I much preferred "A Night to Remember" to the later "Titanic" film. Who could forget Kenneth More as the brave captain of the ship?

[@AvengerII]

Um... Kenneth More DIDN'T play the Captain. He played Lightoller, the SECOND Officer of the ship! More wasn't made up anything LIKE Captain Smith (the real Titanic captain). Smith had a white beard and was around 62 at the time of the sinking.

[@aladywriter]

I prefer A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. It's THE best!

[@Ziegler-boothBlogspot]

Thanks for correcting me - it's a while since I saw the film!

[@horselord1965]

the only thing that can be called "Titanic" about Cameron's movie is his obvious and fragile ego. "A Night to Remember" still leaves a lump in the throat. A REAL work of art.

[@sweetlildevil7597]

I've loved the ship Titanic for most of my life, but A Night to Remember was so boring that I actually fell asleep the first 2 times I tried to watch it. When I finally did, I saw all the horrible historical mistakes. I mean, from the get go... the christening? What was that all about? Not to mention the set... That Grand Staircase was pretty, but come on. They had a picture of Olympic's Grand Staircase back then and could have done a far better job.

[@GoldenGemster1]

A Night to Remember is a classic - I was really disappointed with the Cameron version especially with Kate Winslett being made to act in a way that girls of that time never would have. However his special effects were good but still didn't beat the Kenneth More film.

[@half-lifescientist1991]

Vicky George The two things Cameron's film has over A Night To Remember was the soundtrack and the sets. The writing was what killed the Cameron movie for me, that aside I heavily appreciate the effort put into both films.

[@AvengerII]

I think the most eye-rolling moment for me in Cameron's film was the B.S. suggestion that the lookouts were distracted by the scene of love-making by "Leo 'N Kate" near the bow long enough to miss spotting the iceberg in time. That to me was one of the big things that made the film unreal BESIDES the behavior of Kate Winslet's character during the first dinner scene with Cal and her mother. It's just all sheer, utter B.S. The other moment that I'm in complete agreement with about the distaste for (among Titanic-philes and the British contingent especially) is the scene of First Officer Murdoch accepting a bribe and later shooting himself over his shame. It was just unbelievable, complete fiction, and demonstrated the depths Cameron sunk to at times making the film. Cameron has proven since that his ego really is far more "gigantic" than any of White Star's ocean liners ever were! Titanic (1997) otherwise has excellent production values and fine music but it's just otherwise the epitome of all the waste and political nonsense that characterizes modern Hollywood. A Night to Remember (1958) is a MUCH more humble film and bears repeated watching. It's still the standard for all Titanic films because of that -- it doesn't make up things and try to add to the human drama that's already there. That's the mistake Cameron made with his movie.

[@andythompson6874]

@@AvengerII I could not agree with you more. In my opinion, Titanic 1997 had the potential to have been one of the all time greatest film epics ever made. I'm talking comparable to Ben-Hur, GWTW, Dr. Zhivago, etc. Jack's profanity, his teaching Rose to spit, seducing another man's fiance, her then giving Cal's detective the finger, their distracting the lookouts, her disregard for her mother's desperate attempts to save both her and Rose's future. Rose could have married Cal and still done all the adventures with Jack as a friend. Murdock's "suicide" was particularly disturbing, and Jack's curt words to the man reciting the Lord's Prayer was completely unnecessary. Interjecting a fictitious love story was not the problem, as with the 1953 Titanic movie with Barbara Stanwyck. It was Jack dragging Rose into the gutter that most disturbed me.

[@yankeecitygirl]

I'm glad I never viewed the film. The moment I saw the trailer where di caprio was shouting: "I'm King of the World! I" knew it was going to be crap. If I did see it , it would be to gawk at the period set and costumes. Otherwise it's a big load of Hollywood tripe.@@andythompson6874

[@shrek228]

But Kenneth More played the 2nd officer Lightoller!

[@countalucard4226]

I liked ANTR better myself. Kenneth More was much better than anyone in the 1997 version. Also the captain in ANTR looked more like his character, with a really full beard

[@rainpop3036]

My goodness...Williams name is MacQuitty pronunced MacQuitty not MacKitty. Corrected later

[@jessiejames7492]

James camerons cannot compare to this. This 1958 version is more superior

[@knownpleasures]

A night to remember was not the first movie about Titanic, far from it!!

[@andrewsartduchy7721]

Sort of bizarre how he says to this day it remains the most accurate account of the ship’s sinking when they didn’t even include that the ship broke in half.

[@yankeecitygirl]

the interview was probably recorded before the wreck was discovered

[@mafia3rules]

:(

[@essessessesq]

The 1997 film?---- i went to ONLY to see the ship and its interior.----The story was balderdash, and full of lies: the crew and passengers were NOT chaos as Cameron portrayed----as one sailor remarked later "It was as calm as boat-drill in Southampton."-----most of the men were brave, not cowards---most first class men went down with the ship, including the richest man on earth, J.J. Astor-----Cameron's film is chaos and confusion and then that absurb gun fight all over the ship----BUT apparenly most people who saw the 1997 film believe the "story" is factual. Sure, A.N.T.R. has errors, but they a minisule compared to Cameron's fictional fairy tale filled with drama that never happened!

[@rainpop3036]

Agree plus no passengers would ever have got onto the bow and did the flying scene

[@andrewsartduchy7721]

There’s actually a ton of survivor testimony that it was in fact chaos at a certain point (when the lifeboats were all nearly launched). Men demanding to be let on or they’d swamp the boat, the wireless operators had a scuffle with a third class passenger that tried to steal their life jackets. Cameron got it right showing the gradual progression of panic.

[@essessessesq]

@@andrewsartduchy7721 the chaos was literally at the very end, when it was obvious she was going down....probably the last 10 minutes......it was then no longer for the Officers to keep up the incredible good order they had maintained for about 2 hours.....it was not a progression of panic....read passengers Gracie, Beasley etc. and their BOOKS....avoid the newspaper accounts from 1912 with their yellow journalism of made up "passenger tales" of violence and chaos

[@simslady2000]

Titanic of James Cameron is better

[@AvengerII]

And WHY?!? You can't just pop up and say something pithy like that and NOT expect to be challenged. Is it because the later film is in color, because it has Leo and Kate and is "so much more historically accurate" than the earlier film?!?!? All of that, btw, is infantile and SHEER, UTTER B.S. because many earlier B&W movies, Titanic-inspired or not, had BETTER ACTING and they didn't make up as much crap to "add drama" as that 1997 movie did. Have you actually SEEN Cameron's 1997 movie lately?!? It hasn't aged particularly well and the main characters don't come off as cute and cuddly (Rose comes off as an entitled little brat!) as you thought when you were MAYBE 13 or 14 when you saw that movie! I bet you didn't even see it in theaters! I saw it in 1998 longer AFTER the Christmas release because it was overhyped to hell! You could NOT get away from that damned Celine Dion song for OVER A YEAR and it had to make many people's most hated song list. Explain yourself or expect to be mocked! I don't care what your opinion is, honestly, but you can't just pop in and be cute and say something controversial and NOT expect to be challenged.

[@johnchristiancanda3320]

Both "Titanic" (1953) and "A Night To Remember" (1958) are better than "Titanic" (1997).

[@edienandy]

AvengerII okay boomer

[@andrewsartduchy7721]

Agreed

[@mosaluddindxb9553]

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