Titanic

[carrie]

Just been listening to a compilation album and Celine sang the song from the movie Titanic.
It took me back to when my brother and I went to see the film, much heralded at the time my brother and I thought it was awful and not a patch on the original.
The crunch came when the boat was going down , the lady behind us in the cinema started to sob quite loudly, my brother started to laugh and the lady hit us with her brolly and called us heartless monsters.

[newcastle]

.....and not a patch on the original.

I’m confused. What film would that be?

[HEPZIBAH]

.....and not a patch on the original.

I’m confused. What film would that be?

That sounds so much like regular conversations I have with a colleague at work. For her, the 'original' is always the first version of a film, usually an adaptation of a book, that she has seen. When I point out that there has been (often) 2,3 or even 4 versions that I know of, and have usually seen, she disregards them. If she were from a generation or two younger than me that almost might be understandable, but she only a couple of years younger than me.

[carrie]

Think it was called Titanic, I remember the band playing as the ship sank. Dont know who was in it.

[HEPZIBAH]

Think it was called Titanic, I remember the band playing as the ship sank. Dont know who was in it.

That could well be the Kenneth More one (of the late 1950s I think), but 'the band played on' is a feature in many adaptations.

I can think of a Dance Band featuring in one and a Salvation Army type band in another, and I think there are more.

[carrie]

Kenneth Moore that's the one thanks Hepzibah,

[HEPZIBAH]

A quick search online and I discover there are even more 'Titanic' films than even I've seen, including one that was made in 1912 only a matter of weeks after the disaster.
I'll leave the link to the Wikipedia site (not that I always trust Wikipedia information) which has a long list of the films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... he_Titanic

[Who2]

.....and not a patch on the original.

I’m confused. What film would that be?

A Night to Remember, I remember watching it with my father we both cried.
It's in black & white....
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051994/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[newcastle]

Think it was called Titanic, I remember the band playing as the ship sank. Dont know who was in it.

“A Night to Remember “ I guess. A good film....’80s?

I think you are too young to have seen any earlier versions.

[HEPZIBAH]

Think it was called Titanic, I remember the band playing as the ship sank. Dont know who was in it.

“A Night to Remember “ I guess. A good film....’80s?

I think you are too young to have seen any earlier versions.

A Night to Remember was made in 1958. It was on the television in the UK in the last 2 or 3 weeks. Names/Faces that stick in my memory: Kenneth More, David McCallum, Honor Blackman.

[newcastle]

Think it was called Titanic, I remember the band playing as the ship sank. Dont know who was in it.

“A Night to Remember “ I guess. A good film....’80s?

I think you are too young to have seen any earlier versions.

A Night to Remember was made in 1958. It was on the television in the UK in the last 2 or 3 weeks. Names/Faces that stick in my memory: Kenneth More, David McCallum, Honor Blackman.

A great film...and oft repeated. Presumably it was a repeat that Carrie saw.

[Who2]

Plus, Stratford Johns aka Det. Chief Supt. Charlie Barlow.
Whom my Dad once mistook for an old pal in a Cornish pub, Stratford and I played the 'who am I game ?
for sometime him winking at me, even him saying 'perhaps it was on TV all to no avail.

Later, I told my Dad who he was, 'mortified was the word......
Ps: Plus I got a 'clout round the head for my troubles...as usual....

[Who2]

I was pondering Stratford Johns last night and remembered this, Brond 1987.

It was John Hannah's and Rury's first film, they met 19 years later,
when John had his film company at The Tardis and Rury was an employee of mine.
Rury is the kid pushed off the bridge by Johns.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615257/?re ... _fc_cl_t28

Ruaraidh lives opposite me in our block..but I still cannot spell his name....

Pss: I doubt if anybody would try to push him off a bridge these days....