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

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Cameron’s Titanic ruled cinemas in 1997-98, breaking records and hoarding awards and filling the airwaves with Celine Dion. This came as a surprise to a lot of folks, but not those who had already been on the bandwagon, who recognized that the sinking of the Titanic is a near-perfect story of an incredibly imperfect voyage. Barczewski, Stephanie (2006). Titanic: A Night Remembered. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-85285-500-0. The first adaption for the book was the 1956 episode for the TV show Kraft Television Theatre on March 28 th for NBC; the episode was re-released a month later. The second adaption was the classic British film adaptation of the same name was released on July 3 rd, 1958. Benjamin Guggenheim had a more detailed message: “If anything should happen to me, tell my wife I’ve done my best in doing my duty.”

Norman Rossington, who appears as a steward who loses his temper with non-English speaking passengers just after the collision, also appears as the Master-at-Arms in S.O.S. Titanic (1979). Because I'm cruel and evil, I'm going to ruin this book for you with a spoiler. The ship sinks, folks. The book received widespread praise from contemporary critics. The New York Times called it "stunning ... one of the most exciting books of this or any other year". [6] The Atlantic Monthly praised the book for doing "a magnificent job of re-creative chronicling, enthralling from the first word to the last." [6] Entertainment Weekly said that it was "seamless and skillful... it's clear why this is many a researcher's Titanic bible", while USA Today described it as "the most riveting narrative of the disaster." [6]Also, Lightoller is depicted nearly being crushed by the fourth funnel falling in the ship's last moments. It was actually the first funnel that fell near Lightoller. [40] [41] [31] The world premiere was on Thursday, 3 July 1958, at the Odeon Leicester Square. Boxhall and Third Officer Herbert Pitman attended the premier along with survivor Walter Nichols. [22] Titanic survivor Elizabeth Dowdell attended the American premiere in New York on Tuesday 16 December 1958. [44] Reception [ edit ] Critical reception [ edit ] A Night to Remember is novelistic in its presentation, eschewing analysis and debate. For instance, rather than engage in a discussion about the band's final song, Lord simply chooses the Episcopal hymn Autumn, instead of Nearer My God To Thee. If you desire to know why Lord made that choice, you can read his follow up The Night Lives On, which is an in-depth treatment of a number of fascinating (if ultimately meaningless) questions (including First Officer William Murdoch's alleged suicide, an event blithely passed off as gospel in Cameron's Titanic, much to the chagrin of Murdoch's surviving relatives).

I listened to this book on audio and was so engrossed I finished it in one session. Highly recommended.The production was a major hit, attracting 28 million viewers, and greatly boosted the book's sales. [14] It was rerun on kinescope on 2 May 1956, five weeks after its first broadcast. [13] [18] Development [ edit ] Then came another switch. At the very last moment, he suddenly climbed into Boat C. Down it dropped, with 42 people including Bruce Ismay—just another passenger.

Heyer, Paul (2012). Titanic Century: Media, Myth, and the Making of a Cultural Icon. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-39815-5. The Titanic woke them up. Never again would they be quite so sure of themselves. In technology especially, the disaster was a terrible blow. Here was the "unsinkable ship" — perhaps man's greatest engineering achievement — going down the first time it sailed.All the way forward, there was more trouble at Collapsible C, which had been fitted into the davits used by No. 1. A big mob pushed and shoved, trying to climb aboard.

Lord traveled on the RMS Olympic, Titanic 's sister ship, when he was a boy and the experience gave him a lifelong fascination with the lost liner. [1] As he later put it, he spent his time on the Olympic "prowling around" and trying to imagine "such a huge thing" sinking. He started reading about and drawing Titanic at the age of ten and spent many years collecting Titanic memorabilia, causing people to "take note of this oddity." [2] He majored in history at Princeton University and graduated from Yale Law School before joining the New York–based advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. [2] Writing in his spare time, he interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster. [3] I'm sure it's his interviews with so many survivors that makes this book so realistic. His descriptions are vivid and made me feel like I was almost there. I listened to the audio version of this book. A combination of Lord's story-telling and Fred Williams excellent narration kept me engrossed in the story from start to finish. I have read many many books on the Titanic, watched movies, listened to podcasts....for me, it's a story I just seem obsessed with. It's horrific...and mesmerizing at the same time. Lord makes the story about the people....not just the event. He tells the story of an Italian woman crying for her children on board the Carpathia, only to be reunited with them both; the first class passenger who refused to leave her Great Dane on board the ship so perished with her dog; and the stunned silence of the women in the lifeboats as they realized they had just witnessed more than 1000 people drown. It's about more than a luxurious boat that didn't survive its first Atlantic crossing.....it's about the loss of more than 1,500 people and the story of the last 3 hours of their lives. Meanwhile Bride draped an overcoat over Phillips’ shoulders, then managed to strap a life belt on him. The problem of getting him into his boots was more complicated. Phillips asked whether any boats were left—maybe the boots wouldn’t be needed. Most of the passengers were different. William T. Stead, independent as ever, sat reading alone in the First Class smoking room. To Fireman Kemish passing by, he looked as though he planned to stay there whatever happened. First Officer William Murdoch was one of the most heroic figures of the Titanic. He saved many lives that night. The movie didn't do him justice. Wireless operators and engineers refused to abandon their posts. The band played until the very end.Kenneth Moore recalled the production of the film in his autobiography, published 20 years later in 1978. There was no tank big enough at Pinewood Studios to film the survivors struggling to climb into lifeboats, so it was done in the open-air swimming bath at Ruislip Lido, at 2:00 am on an icy November morning. When the extras refused to jump in, Moore realised he would have to set an example. He called out: "Come on!" A Night to Remember was released by the Criterion Collection on DVD in May 1998. [56] Initial versions of the DVD omitted Lightoller finding the child to be dead and putting it in the water. A new DVD and a high-definition Blu-ray edition were released on 27 March 2012 to commemorate the centennial of the sinking. This is a re-read. I first read it before I joined either Shelfari or Goodreads, so I have no record of when I read it. I believe it was in the 1980s; I know it was long before the hugely successful movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. If memory serves, I re-read it at about the time the movie was released. So this is my third reading. Over 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic. The 'unsinkable' ship lies 3,800 meters under the North Atlantic Ocean. A scientist from James Cameron's documentary Ghosts of the Abyss referred to the sinking as a Greek tragedy. I couldn't agree more. It is a tragedy that should never have happened. Two men dropped in. Purser Herbert McElroy fired twice into the air. Murdoch shouted, “Get out of this! Clear out of this!” Hugh Woolner and Bjornstrom Steffanson—attracted by the pistol flashes—rushed over to help. Yanking the culprits by arms, legs, anything, they cleared the boat. The loading continued.