A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection

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Summary: By far the best "Titanic" Film
Review: So much better than James Cameron's slick hokum that the latter isn't even in the race.This is the definitive account of the disaster (I'm not anti-Cameron. I like a lot of his other films). This is stark, unforgettable, true to historical fact as was known at the time and doesn't patronise the audience. It is argueably a little hard on Captain Lord of the Californian but that is periferal. This is the film to see to get the feel and the atmosphere of what really happened. Kenneth More (an ex-Naval officer)is excellent as Lightoller, the central character. Does not neglect the drama of the engineers, the baker, etc.

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Summary: Excellent, true to life, no "Hollywood" embellishments.
Review: I first saw this as a child and was enthralled by it. I subsequently read the book and found the movie was faithful to the book. I have copies of this movie in VHS, Laser Disc, and DVD, acquisition of the versions was because of developing technology. Titanic, the movie, may well have been a visual feast, but as a friend who attended it with me remarked: It's about a romance on a big boat that sank in the ocean. While I believe no movie is perfect, it is difficult for me to find fault with this 1957 movie.

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Summary: Ship accident
Review: I want to look for the scene when the ship was crashed with the island and the position of Jack & Rose and all other peoples who are in that ship.

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is a wonderful Titanic movie! It is very accurate for the 1950's, and the plot isn't meddled with as many fictional charactors as Cameron's film. But to the people who think that he copied off of this film, you are wrong! The falling smokestack scene, the Mr. Andrews scene, esc.. are historical facts. You may want to learn more about what really happened before you go around saying things like you know what you're talking about!

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Summary: The Definitive Film on the Titanic Disaster
Review: Filmed in chilling black and white, this video tells the gripping story of the Titanic disaster. Although the final result is never in doubt, the masterful storytelling grabs the reader's attention at the beginning of the film and keeps it until the end. In recent years, the film has been criticized for its merciless treatment of Captain Lord of the Californian, but Lord was condemned by both the U.S. and the British inquiries, and his conduct on that fateful night leaves much to be desired. By far, this is the best film ever made about the sinking of the Titanic.

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Summary: Much better than "Titanic"
Review: This Film was regarded as the best film concerning the Titanic before "Titanic" directed by Cameron. After introducing "Titanic", most of people regarded it as the best film but I don't think so. The throne of the best Titanic film was not threatened by "Titanic". Although set, for example ship's companionways, interior of First-class Dining room, smoke room and reception room, was inferior to that of "Titanic", performances of actors and actoresses supplemented these defects. The panic scene on board was not so much inferior to that of "Tianic". The most splendid point of this exploit is that the story is not a love story or a melodrama but a semi-documentary, so I guess this policy for production reflects real characters of many actual people, for example, Ismay, Andrews, Capt. Smith, Lightroller, Murdoch, Molly Brown and Irish emigrants. I hope people who like "Titanic" should see this old masterpiece.

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Summary: this video is realy good
Review: i realy like that vide

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Summary: one word describes this film, Banal
Review: THe films main problem is that it decides to break conventions in the worst way by having no sense of direction or charaterlization. THe film is an un unforgivingly bad film that hapens to leavge the view compleltly unintrested in an compelling story. The story telling for the time is also medicore given what david lean was able to accomplish years eailer. There is nothing of intrests in this film . Any one who liked is a complet moron and dosent have a bit of taste. THis goes to all people who wrote reviews for this film. you all have no taste or understandingas to what a good film is. I wirte reviews for the long youth film society.

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Summary: The ultimate Titanic film to see.
Review: Sure James Cameron's leviathan epic has sailed into history, but this telling of the disaster seems to capture the heart of the human spirit and realism itself. When I saw this I thought that nobody could top the incredible effects of the time (1958) until I saw the new vision of the disaster. However, this film is rich in detail and accuracy. Notice the odd similarities in scenes from this one and "TITANIC"---the falling smokestack, the people running for the risen area of the ship, a deserted child crying, Mr. Andrews looking at the clock as the ship groans to her death, and the way the water of the North Atlantic seem to devour the ship foot by foot. I wonder if Cameron saw this before developing his script for his epic, because the similarities are just too uncanny to not look familiar. But this is the best Titanic film ever. The sets, costumes, passengers, and the iceberg look too real to just seem that this is just a movie. Don't miss this great classic, especially if you're a Titanic film buff.

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Summary: Elegant, well made and often horrifying.
Review: Whatever this lacks in up-to-date special effects and big-budget hype is more than made up by its literate script and elegant period feel-- which make the final scenes on the dying ship all the more wrenching. And let's talk leading men: Sure, Leo's cute, but if *I* were caught in a major disaster, I'd want someone like Kenneth More in my corner. He manages to save himself AND several dozen other people.