The ship’s staff keeps the steerage passengers segregated below. Young Irishman Murphy (John Cairney of The Flesh and the Fiends) is acutely aware of his 3rd-class status. The First Class lists includes famous millionaires, while the lower decks are packed with emigrants from Ireland and Eastern Europe. The passengers are sharply divided into classes and segregated on different levels of the ship. Meanwhile, the ship’s proud architect Thomas Andrews (Michael Goodliffe of Jigsaw) ↓ is on board, working on last-minute finishing details. Bruce Ismay (Frank Lawton) urges Captain Edward Smith (Laurence Naismith of Jason and the Argonauts) ↓ to steam at night through icy waters, in hopes of breaking a speed record. What with ice conditions, normal shipping has the sense to pause at nightfall, but White Star Lines Chairman J. Ship’s officer Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More of Sink the Bismarck!) reports for duty as the Titanic sets out on its first Atlantic crossing. The true events of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the luxury liner have the outlines of great fiction. He poured a fortune into an accurate adaptation of Lord’s book, which became 1958’s nail-biter A Night to Remember. Producer William MacQuitty was present as a child at the launching of the real Titanic. It goes without saying that the Nazi Titanic wasn’t distributed in America but Fox did lift and re-use most of its impressive miniature effects.Īn accurate and uncompromised factual account. It claimed that the calamity was caused by corrupt, arrogant Brits the only humane member of the crew is a handsome young German. It’s also important not to forget the impressive German version overseen by Joseph Goebbels during WW2. 20th Fox’s very good 1953 production Titanic with Barbara Stanwyck focused on the fictional situation of a husband (Clifton Webb) trying to save his marriage. We’re told that by the middle 1950s, the fate of the Titanic had largely faded from the public memory, as had many world events that had preceded World War One.
HELL ARCHITECT TRAILER MOVIE
Memo to self: when editing a fan cut to make the ‘perfect’ movie about the sinking of the Titanic, simply lift some handsome digital special effects from the 1997 version, make them B&W and drop them over as many shots in this film as one can!
Screenplay by Eric Ambler from the novel by Walter Lord Starring: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, David McCallum, Laurence Naismith, Anthony Bushell, Alec McCowen, John Cairney, Michael Goodliffe, Ronald Allen, John Merivale, Jill Dixon, Kenneth Griffith, Frank Lawton, Tucker McGuire, Ralph Michael, George Rose, Joseph Tomelty, Jack Watling, Michael Bryant, Bee Duffel, Thomas Heathcote, Andrew Keir, Jeremy Bulloch, Desmond Llewelyn, Derren Nesbitt, Beth Rogan, Norman Rossington. brings some new extras to the mix, too.ġ958 / B&W / 1:66 enhanced widescreen / 123 min.
No stupid subplots and no insulting anachronisms, just an awful sinking death trap and 1600 passengers facing the freezing water.
Roy Ward Baker leads an enormous cast of Brit character actors through 2.5 hours of true-life terror in the icy Atlantic - Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, David McCallum, Laurence Naismith, Anthony Bushell. This meticulous docu-drama is still the best show about the Titanic, the awesome disaster that has never lost its grip on the imagination.
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