A Night to Remember (1958)

A Night to Remember (1958)

“A Night to Remember” is a 1958 historical disaster film dorected by Roy Ward Baker. The screenplay by Eric Ambler is based on the 1955 book of the same name by Walter Lord.

On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Cast:

• Kenneth More – Second Officer Charles Lightoller
• Michael Goodliffe – shipbuilder Thomas Andrews
• Laurence Naismith – Captain Edward Smith
• Kenneth Griffith – Wireless Operator Jack Phillips
• David McCallum – Assistant Wireless Operator Harold Bride
• Tucker McGuire – Mrs Margaret “Molly” Brown
• Frank Lawton – chairman and managing director of the White Star Line J. Bruce Ismay
• Richard Leech – First Officer William McMaster Murdoch
• John Cairney – Mr Murphy
• Richard Clarke – Martin Gallagher
• Patrick McAlinney – Mr James Farrell
• Anthony Bushell – Captain Arthur Rostron
• Alec McCowen – Wireless Operator Harold Cottam, RMS Carpathia
• Ronald Allen – Mr Clarke
• Jill Dixon – Mrs Clarke
• Geoffrey Bayldon – Wireless Operator Cyril Evans, SS Californian
• George Rose – Chief Baker Charles Joughin
• John Merivale – Robbie Lucas
• Honor Blackman – Mrs Liz Lucas
• Robert Ayres – Arthur Peuchen
• Ralph Michael – Jay Yates
• James Dyrenforth – Colonel Archibald Gracie IV
• Russell Napier – Captain Stanley Lord
• Jane Downs – Iowa Sylvania Zillah “Sylvia” Hawley-Wilson (Mrs Sylvia Lightoller)
• Patrick Waddington – Sir Richard
• Harriette Johns – Lady Richard
• Redmond Phillips – Mr Hoyle
• Joseph Tomelty – Dr William O’Loughlin
• Jack Watling – Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
• Michael Bryant – Sixth Officer James Paul Moody
• Howard Lang – Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
• Dennis Carnell – Third Officer Herbert Pitman
• Cyril Chamberlain – Quartermaster Rowe
• Bee Duffell – Mrs Farrell
• Harold Goldblatt – Benjamin Guggenheim
• Gerald Harper – Third Officer, RMS Carpathia
• Robert Raglan – Chief Engineer Johnston, RMS Carpathia
• Thomas Heathcote – Steward
• Andrew Keir – Second Engineer Officer John Henry “Harry’ Hesketh
• Howard Pays – Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
• Harold Siddons – Second Officer Herbert Stone, SS Californian
• Julian Somers – Mr Bull
• Rosamund Greenwood – Mrs Bull
• Arthur Gross – Quartermaster Hichens
• Charles Belchier – Bandleader Wallace Hartley
• Emerton Court – Chief Engineer Joseph Bell
• Teresa Thorne – Miss Edith Russell
• John Moulder-Brown – boy
• Henry Campbell – W. T. Stead
• Larry Taylor – bearded seaman
• Alma Taylor – old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat
• Ray Austin – seaman (high fall into water stunt)
• Edward Malin – Dining Saloon Steward
• John Martin – Lost Boy
• Victor Wood – Steward
• Richard Shaw – Crewman
• Sean Connery – Deckhand
• Jack Stewart – Stoker Barrett
• Olwen Brookes – Miss Evans
• Paul Hardwick – Guggenheim’s Valet
• Peter Sallis – Minor Role

„Die letzte Nacht der Titanic“ (A Night to Remember) ist ein historischer Katastrophenfilm aus dem Jahr 1958 unter der Regie von Roy Ward Baker. Das Drehbuch von Eric Ambler basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Buch von Walter Lord aus dem Jahr 1955.

Auf ihrer Jungfernfahrt im April 1912 rammt die angeblich unsinkbare RMS Titanic im Atlantik einen Eisberg.