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

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Lord's account, and explains its fascination, a pull as powerful in its way as the last downward plunge of the ship itself. This was the fifth night of the Titanic’s maiden voyage to New York, and it was already clear that she was not only the largest but also the most glamorous ship in the world. Even as the Titanic’s hulk rusts away on the Atlantic seabed, there are those looking to squeeze a few more bucks from her memory. The special effects were so good that the ship sinking model shots were re-used in the 1958 Brit version, based on this book: "A Night to Remember.

The fact that this was not that long after the Titanic sank, in terms of history, is pointed out by the fact that one of the Titanic stewards Lord interviewed was still working on trans-Atlantic passenger liners at the time the book came out. The band playing until the very end, the men who stayed behind to keep sending out SOS messages knowing that by doing so they would surely not survive. Of course, young Jack Thayer had already said that, seventy-three years earlier, because it had happened fifty-yards from his seventeen year-old eyes. However, it received critical acclaim and won the 1959 "Samuel Goldwyn International Award" for the UK at the Golden Globe Awards.Titan was a book written several years before the Titanic and has the reputation of being eerily predictive of the real-life event. Now, anyone who's ever been interested in the subject must contend with sideways glances from people who assume your curiosity was piqued by the teenage-catnip pairing of a young Kate Winslet and a young Leonardo DiCaprio “flying” on Titanic’s prow.

In the intervening years since I wrote this review, I did end up seeing the 1953 Titanic movie, and it is an entertaining potboiler vehicle for Barbara Stanwyck, all gussied up in high-gloss duds and 20th-Century Fox production values and familial bad blood.Perhaps, I became cynical after reading a lot on history, mainly about what one human being can do to another, but this book didn't touch me emotionally.

Because the Californian is so close, the telegraph message is very loud, and Phillips cuts it off abruptly. Well, Heaven knows how many bold ‘n brave corrections to Lord’s summary our recent history has now washed up on the Beach of Historicism! 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. After the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic in 1985 sparked a new wave of public interest in the disaster he wrote a follow-up book, The Night Lives On (1986).The creaking noises during the sinking were created by the set as it was winched up to create the tilting deck effect. Anyway, this book of course is now eclipsed by Céline Dion singing My Heart Will Go On while standing bravely on the Titanic’s prow in our Collective Unconscious. Yes, it is human tragedy first and foremost; but it is also tragedy in the dramatic sense: the noblesse oblige of “women and children first;” Guggenheim dressing in his best to “die as a gentleman;” Ida Strauss refusing to leave her husband, who was not allowed in a lifeboat; the death of a titan set to music, and rockets, and finally the screams of fifteen-hundred people dropped into a freezing sea. All the way forward, there was more trouble at Collapsible C, which had been fitted into the davits used by No. The first production, A Night to Remember (1956), was staged as a live adaptation screened on 28 March 1956 by NBC TV and sponsored by Kraft Foods as part of the Kraft Television Theatre program.