Review of A Night to Remember (1958) by Ryan G — 19 Sep 2012
This movie was the backbone of James Cameron's script for Titanic, and should be given credit for that. Otherwise, it's pretty dull. Very "British." Very "we are upperclass gentleman and will die with honor and composure.
" Which Jack and Rose kind of make fun of in Cameron's movie; when they meet passengers like that they are just kind of like "WTF! Are you retarded, we're tying to survive here!" Cameron lifted quite a few scenes from this movie; although he generally made them better and expanded on them.
The sinking is well done for the time, and seems to hold up pretty accurately (the big main difference being the movie depicts Titanic as sinking whole, the world generally dismissed eye-witness accounts of the ship breaking in two, and it wasn't until the wreck was found that it was corrected.
Oh, and they assumed the iceberg created one huge gash alongside the hull, instead of a few smaller holes). Interesting bit of film history, but not much else.
This review of A Night to Remember (1958) was written by Ryan G on 19 September 2012.
A Night to Remember has generally received very positive reviews.
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