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

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The film disappointed at the box office. [1] However, it received critical acclaim and won the 1959 "Samuel Goldwyn International Award" for the UK at the Golden Globe Awards. [5] Among the many films about the Titanic, A Night to Remember is regarded highly by Titanic historians and survivors for its accuracy, despite its modest production values, compared with the 1997 Hollywood film Titanic. [6] [7] [8] Plot [ edit ]

Alongside this, the sheer hubris surrounding the Titanic is extraordinary - not just the asking-for-trouble 'unsinkable' label but the way in which it was blithely accepted that crossing the Atlantic without adequate life-belts and life rafts was totally fine - we might all joke about the burdens of Health & Safety in the workplace but there's clearly a reason for it! I would like to express my utmost respect to Titanic's heroic crew – Captain Smith, officers Wilde, Murdoch, Lightoller, Pitman, Boxhall, Lowe, and Moody, chief designer Thomas Andrews, wireless operators Phillips and Bride, seamen, masters-at-arms, quartermasters, lookouts, engineers, boilermakers, firemen, coal trimmers, greasers, electricians, victuallers, and musicians. The production was a major hit, attracting 28 million viewers, and greatly boosted the book's sales. [14] It was rerun on kinescope on 2 May 1956, five weeks after its first broadcast. [13] [18] Development [ edit ] I'm starting a new genre - natural and man-made disasters. I want to learn more about the famous ghost of the abyss : the one and only Titanic.When I was about 15, I was completely obsessed with the Titanic (yep, that's the year the movie came out!), and I brought every book I could find about it. And at the time, hyping up the movie, there was a lot of books available. Aldridge, Rebecca (2008). The Sinking of the Titanic. New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7910-9643-7. There are probably other books that go into greater detail on certain aspects of this story, but I can't imagine there being a better entire book on the Titanic than this.

Ken Ringle, "Integrity Goes Down With the Ship; Historical Facts, Including True-Life Gallantry, Lost in Titanic", The Washington Post (22 March 1998), p. G08. In his book A Night to Remember, Walter Lord presented the Titanic disaster from the passengers and crew's viewpoints.

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The film was also a masterpiece in that it did not use a fictional plot and primary characters to draw audiences in; instead, it primarily relied upon historical figures and showed them in such a way that audiences cared about what happened to them.' [55] Home video [ edit ] Heyer, Paul (2012). Titanic Century: Media, Myth, and the Making of a Cultural Icon. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-39815-5. Anderson, D. Brian (2005). The Titanic in Print and on Screen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1786-2. The secret to Lord's success, according to the New York Herald Tribune 's critic Stanley Walker, was that he used "a kind of literary pointillism, the arrangement of contrasting bits of fact and emotion in such a fashion that a vividly real impression of an event is conveyed to the reader." [6] Walker highlighted the way that Lord had avoided telling the story through the prism of social class, which had been the usual style of previous narratives, and instead successfully depicted the human element of the story by showing how those aboard reacted to the disaster whatever their class. [6]

Rasor, Eugene L. (2001). The Titanic : Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31215-1. Lo que más me ha gustado es lo meticuloso del trabajo de documentación del autor, lo cual permite revisitar un acontecimiento que todos conocemos casi a la perfección, pero prestando atención a los detalles. Y es ahí donde más lo disfruté. Una de las cosas que más me sobrecogió fue el papel decisivo que la servidumbre tuvo para salvar a sus empleadores, ya que los pasajeros de primera clase no eran capaces de ver el peligro hasta que se hizo evidente. But they were wrong. Things gradually straightened out, and finally Boat C was ready for lowering. Chief Officer Wilde shouted to know who was in command. Hearing him, Captain Smith turned to Quartermaster Rowe—still fiddling with the Morse lamp—and told him to take charge. Rowe jumped in and got ready to lower.

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I heard a graphic account of how the Titanic up-ended herself and remained poised like some colossal nightmare of a fish, her tail high in the air, her nose deep in the water, until she dived finally from human sight.” Richards, Jeffrey (2001). Imperialism and Music: Britain, 1876–1953. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6143-1. The film was one of the twenty most popular films of the year in Britain according to Motion Picture Herald, but it was only a modest commercial success due to the size of its original budget and its relative underperformance at the American box office. [47] Three years ago I wrote comments on the 1997 James Cameron film "Titanic" for this database. Either because of the number of Oscars collected by this film, or its fantastic production cost of some two hundred million dollars, I felt ashamed when reporting that I found it to be a most uncomfortable combination of a historical documentary and an entirely fictional romance. I found it hard to understand why such a major film should have been split between two such disparate styles of presentation. Although I had recognised that several scenes in Cameron's "Titanic" appeared to have been directly copied from the excellent 1979 TV film "S.O.S. Titanic", I did not feel this was adequate to explain the strongly documentary flavour of so many other sequences. All was explained very recently when, thanks to TCM, I had an opportunity to see "A Night to Remember" for the first time. This is an almost completely documentary 1958 film based on a very thoroughly researched and near definitive book of the same name that was prepared from the testimony given at the official enquiries in the U.K. and the U.S.A., and written by Dr. Walter Lord.. Much of Cameron's film was also documentary and appears to have been directly based on this much earlier film, the remainder was a romantic drama that was essentially incompatible. Cameron probably decided on this approach because ANTR, with no well known stars in the cast, failed to achieve the same success in the U.S.A. as in the U.K. I can now understand that featuring the romance in the way which Cameron did was probably intended to enable his film to create a greater degree of viewer involvement with the unfortunate passengers on the liner and so help to avoid this problem. Unfortunately in my view the documentary and the fictional parts of his film never melded.

Sragow, Michael (26 March 2012). "Nearer, My Titanic to Thee". The Criterion Collection . Retrieved 27 April 2012. Lord traveled on the RMS Olympic, Titanic 's sister ship, when he was a boy and the experience gave him a lifelong fascination with the lost liner. [1] As he later put it, he spent his time on the Olympic "prowling around" and trying to imagine "such a huge thing" sinking. He started reading about and drawing Titanic at the age of ten and spent many years collecting Titanic memorabilia, causing people to "take note of this oddity." [2] He majored in history at Princeton University and graduated from Yale Law School before joining the New York–based advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. [2] Writing in his spare time, he interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster. [3] By coincidence, four members of the cast, Peter Burton, Desmond Llewelyn, Geoffrey Bayldon and Alec McCowen, went on to play "Q" in various James Bond movies. Stanley Lord was upset over his negative portrayal; he was depicted wearing pyjamas and being asleep in his warm cabin while Titanic was sinking. In fact, Lord was sleeping in the chart room with his uniform on at the time of the disaster. Issues of class are lightly touched upon and I was somewhat startled to find that Lord himself buys into the gendered values of 1912: that women and children should be saved first, that men should be stoic and self-sacrificing with a stiff upper lip, and that any man who shows fear is somehow a 'coward' and failing in masculinity. It's hard reading/listening to this now not to have more sympathy for people showing fear and desperation in the face of almost certain and terrifying death by drowning.Approximately 123 of the 324 first-class passengers perished in the disaster. 173 of the 284 second-class passengers died. The crew and third-class passengers suffered the most casualties. Out of 710 third-class passengers, only 174 survived. Among the fatalities were 700 crew members. An estimated 53 children lost their lives. Only 337 bodies were recovered. Several historical figures were renamed or went unnamed to avoid potential legal action. Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon are depicted as Sir Richard and Lady Richard (Lady Duff's secretary Miss Francatelli is completely omitted) and Bruce Ismay is referred to throughout only as "The Chairman". The first adaption for the book was the 1956 episode for the TV show Kraft Television Theatre on March 28 th for NBC; the episode was re-released a month later. The second adaption was the classic British film adaptation of the same name was released on July 3 rd, 1958. A Night to Remember is novelistic in its presentation, eschewing analysis and debate. For instance, rather than engage in a discussion about the band's final song, Lord simply chooses the Episcopal hymn Autumn, instead of Nearer My God To Thee. If you desire to know why Lord made that choice, you can read his follow up The Night Lives On, which is an in-depth treatment of a number of fascinating (if ultimately meaningless) questions (including First Officer William Murdoch's alleged suicide, an event blithely passed off as gospel in Cameron's Titanic, much to the chagrin of Murdoch's surviving relatives).