A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic

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When questioned as to why he did this, Roy Baker noted that "it was a British film made by British artists for a British audience". The sea now slopped over the Titanic’s forward well deck … rippled around the cranes, the hatches, the foot of the mast … washed against the base of the white superstructure.

A Night to Remember gives a gripping, detailed account of what happened the night the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean, killing more than 1,500 people.There were some who ran for the lifeboats but the author focused on those who risked their lives helping others. Many of these survivors were beset by grief at the loss of those they were forced to leave behind, and all of the survivors were stunned and forever impacted by the tragedy.

Rostron takes Lightoller on deck as Carpathia sails by the remaining floating wreckage from the Titanic. Here was the "unsinkable ship" — perhaps man's greatest engineering achievement — going down the first time it sailed. Often movies that try to stay close to the facts suffer from a lack of focus, especially when there is/are no central character(s) to hold things together. The last shot to be filmed was Sir Richard and Lady Richard' departure from their home pass the waving orphans according to Ray Johnson's documentary The Making of 'A Night to Remember' (1993).I understand fear but I still have a difficult time understanding leaving people to die in the frigid ocean especially when they could be friends or even the women’s husbands. Some historical figures have the 'wrong' accent: The portrayal of Thomas Andrews by British actor Michael Goodlife was believable, but the accent should have been not British but Irish. In A Night to Remember, Walter Lord includes intimate details from the last night of the Titanic, much of which is gathered from personal accounts and interviews from the survivors.

Lord interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster as well as drawing on books, memoirs, and articles that they had written. Charlotte Collyer and other women in the boat were sobbing, and her eight-year-old daughter Marjory joined the uproar, tugging at Lowe’s arm and crying, “Oh, Mr.

While some events are based on true history, some of the characters and their storylines are fictional or dramatised; the characters of Mr. Desmond Llewelyn makes an uncredited appearance as a gate steward who prevents the third class passengers from entering the first class deck. The book also includes facts about the Titanic, a list of passengers with those that survived in italics and other information. A Night to Remember is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord that depicts the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.