![]() ![]() His name was twice the size of the next 25 actors in the opening credits, which in turn were twice the size of the third batch, in cinematic steerage as it were. The movie’s main star was the sympathetic Kenneth More as 2nd Officer Charles Lightholler. For MacQuitty, it was a story about arrogance.Īs proof that the world truly did change in the years after 1912, he said that the Belfast Titanic commemoration listed people in order of importance whereas the 1914-18 war memorial had the dead in simple alphabetical order. ![]() There weren’t enough lifeboats for steerage passengers, he added, and yet the first-class passengers were lowered in their best evening clothes. ![]() The steerage passengers paid £12 and the stateroom passengers paid £875 for a five-day trip.” It’s been made before.” (Indeed, there was a 1953 Hollywood movie called “Titanic.”) MacQuittey recalled his reply in a 1993 interview: “This is an end of an era. But the studio executive at the Rank Organization said: “Bill, this is just another shipwreck movie. After he read the exciting and meticulously researched book of that name by the American Walter Lord (a lowly writer in a Madison Avenue advertising firm by day), he was determined that it would get the film treatment. ![]()
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