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Director: Roy Ward Baker

Writers: Walter Lord (from the book by), Eric Ambler (screenplay)

Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres Kenneth More ... Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller

Ronald Allen ... Mr. Clarke

Robert Ayres ... Maj. Arthur Peuchen

Honor Blackman ... Mrs. Liz Lucas

Anthony Bushell ... Capt. Arthur Rostron - Carpathia

John Cairney ... Mr. Murphy

Jill Dixon ... Mrs. Clarke

Jane Downs ... Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller

James Dyrenforth ... Col. Archibald Gracie

Michael Goodliffe ... Thomas Andrews

Kenneth Griffith ... Wireless Operator John 'Jack' Phillips

Harriette Johns ... Lady Richard

Frank Lawton ... Chairman J. Bruce Ismay

Richard Leech ... First Officer William Murdoch

David McCallum ... Assistant Wireless Operator Harold Bride



Storyline



A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later part of Cunard) luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic's sinking from the standpoint of 2nd Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller, himself the most senior of the ill-fated ship's Deck Officers to survive the disaster. (Lightoller later went on to distinguish himself as a line British Naval Officer during the First World War and served as a Senior Naval Staff Officer (convoys) during WWII. Between wars he owned and operated a successful family business producing pleasure craft.) His own survival of the sinking, along with several others, is shown atop one of the liner's two "collapsible" lifeboats which was capsized in floating off the liner as it sank. The picture depicts then known facts (c1958) as reported after the sinking; such as the woeful lack of adequate lifeboats, the ship's band playing true to the very end, White Star's co-owner Bruce Ismay's somewhat less than chivalrous departure from the sinking vessel -...