{"id":8543,"date":"2013-05-27T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2016-03-30T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:22:34","slug":"a-night-to-remember-1958-roy-ward-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8543","title":{"rendered":"A Night to Remember (1958, Roy Ward Baker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ensemble version of the Titanic story without the James Cameron love story &#8211; in fact, with no lead actor at all, just a <em>lead event<\/em>.  Second officer Kenneth More is first billed, followed by a hundred British actors I&#8217;ve never heard of (makes you realize just how few British actors appear in the Cameron version), and supposedly Sean Connery and Desmond Llewelyn in bit parts.  A quality film, the biggest British production of the 1950&#8217;s, made as accurately as possible based on survivor accounts.  Seems pioneering in that respect, that it&#8217;s a massive studio film meant to be a true-to-life account without big stars or melodramatic additions.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Ward Baker (not yet fallen to the depths of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5190\">Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires<\/a><\/em>) mixes in footage of the Mauretania and from the 1938 launching of the Queen Elizabeth, plus scenes from a Nazi-made Titanic movie. We spotted some dialogue recycled by Cameron, who reportedly loved this movie.  Won a golden globe in the forgotten category &#8220;best english-language foreign film&#8221; (the only other winners: <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9237\">Richard III<\/a><\/em> in &#8217;56 and <em>Woman in a Dressing Gown<\/em> in &#8217;57).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ensemble version of the Titanic story without the James Cameron love story &#8211; in fact, with no lead actor at all, just a lead event. Second officer Kenneth More is first billed, followed by a hundred British actors I&#8217;ve never heard of (makes you realize just how few British actors appear in the Cameron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,102,13,1142,1658],"class_list":["post-8543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-britain","tag-criterion","tag-roy-ward-baker","tag-shipwreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10980,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}