Cast
Kenneth More (Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller), Ronald Allen (Charles Clarke),
Honor Blackman (Mrs Liz Lucas), Anthony Bushell (Capt. Arthur Rostron of the Carpathia),
Michael Goodliffe (Thomas Andrews), Frank Lawton (J. Bruce Ismay), Richard Leech
(First Officer William Murdoch), Tucker Maguire (Mrs Margaret 'Molly' Brown), David McCallum
(Wireless Operator Harold Bride), Laurence Naismith (Capt. Edward John Smith), Sean Connery
(Titanic Deckhand - uncredited), Thomas Heathcote (Steward).
Production Team
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Producer: William MacQuitty
Executive Producer: Earl St John
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
Original Music: William Alwyn
Production Details
Release Date: July 1958
Filming Locations: Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England (studio), River Clyde, Glasgow
(boat-lowering sequences), Ruislip Lido, Middlesex (sea sequences).
Trivia
Producer William MacQuitty had been one of the spectators at the launching of the Titanic on May 31, 1911. He was
six years old at the time.
The Titanic's Fourth Officer, Joseph Boxall, served as technical advisor to the film.
Walter Lord found 64 survivors in researching the book 'A Night to Remember.' The Rank Organisation found many
more in making the film, and several visited the set, including Edith Russell, the dress designer with the lucky stuffed pig
shown in the film. The stuffed pig used in the film was the actual one that Russell had on the Titanic. It was
bequeathed to Lord in her will.
Lawrence Beesley, a survivor from second class, was on the set during filming. At one point when the sinking was
being filmed, he attempted to enter the scene and - perhaps symbolically - "go down" with the ship. Director Roy Ward
Baker didn't allow this, as it would have been a union violation, which could have closed down production.
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