Scene from A Night to Remember
Jul. 07, 1959 - The moment to lower away the last boat has come and 2nd officer Lightoller has to brandish his revolver to quell the panic that nearly ensued. Panic Strikes final scenes on the titanic film. Terror strikes into the hearts of over 500 men, women and children when they are going to die. and, in one mad, panic stricken moment they fight to find a place on one of the last overcrowded lifeboats to leave a doomed passenger liner. The time? 2.00 am, April 15, 1912. In another 20 minutes 1, 503 souls were to go down with the mighty Titanic in mid Atlantic. All the horror of that moment of 46 years ago is caught in this scene during the filming of the Titanic story, A night to Remember, now being made at Pinewood studios. to use a gun on board a British ship to bring a panic sticken mob to order. The officer was the Titanic's second officer C.H.Lighttoller, played by Kenneth more in the film. Although the gun was fired only into the air it stammed the panic but who can say what man will not panic when faced with certain death or the chance for life in a tiny lifeboat
