Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

wendyluhardy I've been interested in the Titanic for many years and saw this English movie many years ago on TV. It's not one of those movies that is shown very often. Fortunately it's on YouTube (after so many movies have been taken off), so feel free to indulge.There have been many movies made about the Titanic--both for theaters and television--and while I do like James Cameron's 1997 version, "A Night to Remember" is the better film. Made only 45 years after the sinking, there were still many survivors at that time and a few hung around the studio watching the movie being filmed and offering their advice. Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall acted as technical adviser. James Cameron watched this movie many times and while I appreciate his attention to detail and historical accuracy, his version is basically a love story that took place aboard the Titanic. "A Night to Remember" is about the ship itself, based on Walter Lord's 1955 best selling book.For anyone that knows anything about the Titanic and its cast of characters, you can easily pick out Thomas Andrews, J. Bruce Ismay, "unsinkable" Molly Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Strauss, Captain Smith, etc. One aspect of this great movie that sets it apart from most of the others--particularly Cameron's movie--is the "Californian controversy." A ship, the Californian, was about 12 miles away while the Titanic was sinking and the crewmen on watch saw rockets being fired. But their telegraph operator had gone to sleep & missed the SOS. Nothing was reported to the ship's captain, Stanley Lord. Supposedly the ship couldn't have reached the Titanic in time even if it moved at top speed due to the ice--but it should have tried anyway. So please watch this movie on YouTube, it's one of my favorites and I'm so glad I can watch it any time I want, it's a little over 2 hours long, you won't be disappointed!

Myriam Nys I first saw the movie as an adolescent. It made a deep impression on me. I've seen it four or five times since, and it continues to move and dazzle me.This is a very efficient movie : it sets out to tell the story of the sinking of the Titanic and it does so, with all the purposeful surety of an arrow shot by a master archer. The linear clarity of the script, combined with the tautness of the plot, allows many other other smaller stories to blossom and grow. These stories are brought to vivid life by a multitude of deeply felt and deeply moving performances.The movie does not shy away from showing panic, suffering and death. None of this feels cheap or exploitative - on the contrary. The viewer meets a large number of people (both passengers and crew) : all of them, from the first to the last, are treated as full-blown individuals, worthy of interest, respect and pity. Indeed, even the thieves who snatch handfuls of pearls are worthy of our pity : for surely it must be a living hell, to be so devoid of self-respect and compassion that a disaster is seen as nothing more than a welcome opportunity for larceny ? The makers of "A night" hold up a mirror to the viewer and ask him two hugely relevant questions : "How would you act if you knew that you were in grave danger ?" and "How would you act if you knew that you were about to die ?" Most importantly, the movie refuses facile answers along the lines of "I would sacrifice myself for my little daughter and then die a smiling hero, no question about it !" Instead, the viewer is invited, nay forced, to look into his innermost heart, in order to explore the many secrets and uncertainties which lie there.Any movie capable of such prowess is a masterpiece for the ages.

Woodyanders The luxury cruise ship the Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Director Roy Ward Baker and screenwriter Eric Ambler wisely eschew cheap sentiment and overblown melodramatic flourishes in favor of a more admirably subtle and restrained documentary-style sense of realism and authenticity that just the same still astutely captures the heart-wrenching tragedy of the catastrophic event. Indeed, there are many poignant and striking moments throughout: The rich lady who refuses to leave without her lucky china pig, a father saying a final goodbye to his wife and children, Benjamin Guggenheim (a marvelously smooth performance by Harold Goldblatt) deciding not to wear a life jacket so he can die as a gentleman, the band playing right til the bitter end, Ida Strauss insisting on staying aboard with her beloved husband, the brave crew doing whatever they can to mitigate the severity of the situation, and an old waiter attempting to comfort an abandoned child in the worst possible crisis. While Kenneth More clearly holds the entire epic picture together with his outstanding portrayal of the stalwart and fiercely efficient Second Officer Charles Lightoller, he nonetheless receives sterling support from Laurence Naismith as the resolute Captain Edward John Smith, Frank Lawton as the cowardly J. Bruce Ismay, Michael Goodlife as proud and pragmatic designer Thomas Andrews, Tucker McGuire as the boisterous Margaret "Molly" Brown, George Rose as the drunken baker Charles Joughin, and David McCallum and Kenneth Griffith as a couple of exceptionally selfless and dedicated wireless officers. However, it's the artful way this film combines a feeling of epic scope and basic human drama without one overwhelming the other that stands out as the key reason it's widely hailed as the definitive motion picture about the sinking of the supposedly unsinkable Titanic. Essential viewing.

WakenPayne So I have seen my fare share of Titanic films that I didn't like. I wasn't too fussed on the James Cameron Titanic and there are 2 others that I have seen which are just downright insulting (one of which is on the Bottom 100). I decided to give this a watch because it was considered one of the best Titanic movies. Is it deserving of such a reputation? Well I haven't seen that many Titanic adaptations myself but I did enjoy this.First of all, unlike most reviews. Here I will not say the plot. Why? Because I'm sure everyone would know it. Because from what I've heard this keeps true to all the historical facts at the time. With that being said there are a few problems with this movie.My biggest problem with this movie is the attitude of the passengers. I know they thought it was unsinkable but that's as far as it goes with their attitude. They think it's unsinkable while it's sinking. If there was just a few complaints about waking them at a late hour in the night then I might understand it a little bit more but this? Even though they do panic later some of what happens earlier is almost laughable.Although to be fair, while that is going on I do like some of the scenes. The scenes with the sailors and people working in the Titanic when they're being told it was going to sink and there weren't enough lifeboats. Those scenes are actually pretty sad to watch. As are some of the final sinking scenes such as a boy getting lost and not being able to find his parents.So, is this worth watching? In my eyes it certainly is. This movie is actually very well made in most respects. If you want to watch it then I would recommend it.