EARLY ACCESS *Reaction Only* | A Night To Remember (1958) FIRST TIME Movie Reaction [Still In Edit]

Babbling before even starting the watch: Kenneth More, who played Lightoller, was a very popular actor of this period, and I always enjoyed watching him. He was in a movie about a VIctorian era train in India which was a great "boy's adventure" and a fun movie with a good supporting cast. I cannot find the name of it... This movie takes most of its factual cues from the Walter Lord book by the same name. Several years ago, I spotted the paperback resting on my brother's bookshelf, and though it covered a twentieth century event, and though I'm firmly rooted in the Fifteenth Century, I picked it up and scanned through it. I then asked my brother if I could borrow it. Knowing me all too well and realizing that I was about to fall into a historical obsession, my brother said: "Keep it." Thus it began... I agree that this small, spare, no-nonsense movie accomplishes things that the epic Cameron movie doesn't. Part of it is that, though there are fictional representations, and composites, every character and event feeds into the tragedy, where the Rose/Jack main plot never did anything for me, and I even resented it. This movie remembers the California (though there's research explaining why their behavior isn't as egregious as is shown here, given the nautical standards of the time). A lot of things changed as a result of the disaster, including keeping radios active 24 hours long; life boat standards; communication standards; onboard safety drills; and other things. Poor Bruce Ismay is still raked over the coals here for things he did not do, and not given credit for the help he attempted. One day, I'd like to see something where the Carpathia and Rostron get their full due That ship was the true hero of that dreadful event. Anyway, now I'm looking forward to the watch! The old couple who stay together are Isidor and Rosalie Strauss. My Titanic and family research had a weird, tearjerking crossover when I discovered that the daughter of my great great uncle, Rose Maltinsky, had submitted an article about the Strausses on the Titanic in the Pittsburgh Jewish Criterion. According to the testimony of Fourth Officer Lowe, Ismay was assisting in lowering the life boats; at one point, Ismay was much too anxious about lowering them, and Lowe, who didn't know who Ismay was at the time, shouted at him. Ismay was among the last to leave, when he got into the lifeboat. I'm not at all convinced that these actions are those of a coward or someone who should be ashamed of himself. If so, he paid dearly for his survival, accused of cowardice and other things. He became a recluse and died in despair. And no, according to actual testimony he did not push the captain to speed up the ship; he knew enough about shop protocol to know that, according to Titanic testimony that the captain of the ship is the final authority. Popular media continues to wrongly abuse Ismay and one of the things I resent about Cameron is that he had a chance to redeem Ismay's reputation in his big fancy epic and he decided to stay with legend, even though it wouldn't have hurt his plotline to do otherwise. And then Cameron went a step further and maligned Murdoch - there was no evidence that Murdoch shot anyone. Why Cameron decided to include this is beyond me. 48:50 - Whether or not Titanic split was a controversy until the wreck itself was discovered. So here, the ship doesn't split, according to what Lord had learned at the time.

Maria Torres