A Night to Remember (1958)
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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Thus in this film, unlike "Titanic" of 1954 or "A Night to Remember" of 1958, the ship is not shudderingly gashed by the berg but merely penetrated by a stiletto of ice, spreading 12 square feet of damage over 300 feet of hull.
One beauty of the movie is that it never overshadows Roy Baker's marvelous 1958 film of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember, which is a clinical, semi-documentary dissection of the luxury liner's sinking.
Probably the best film ever made about this tragedy is a 1958 film called "A Night to Remember."
The movie can't compete with "A Night to Remember" (1958), which remains the truly essential film about the disaster.
Hollywood first gave it a go in 1953 in Fox’s “Titanic,” with the British “A Night to Remember” following to general acclaim in 1958.
(For a film that does all of these things better than Titanic, see A Night to Remember .)