Scenes that give you the chills……
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elena-28 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 10:25 AM)
There's a passage like that in the book "A Night to Remember:
The muffled thuds and tinkle of breaking glass grew louder. A steady roar thundered across the water as everything movable broke loose. There has never been a mixture like it29 boilers the jeweled copy of the Rubiyt 800 cases of shelled walnuts 15,000 bottles of ale and stout huge anchor chains (each link weighed 175 pounds) 30 cases of golf clubs and tennis rackets for Spalding Eleanor Wideners trousseau tons of coal Major Peuchens tin box 30,000 fresh eggs dozens of potted palms 5 grand pianos a little mantel clock in B-38 the massive silver duck press. And still it grewtumbling trellises, ivy pots and wicker chairs in the Caf Parisien shuffleboard sticks the 50-phone switchboard two reciprocating engines and the revolutionary low-pressure turbine 8 dozen tennis balls for R. F. Downey & Co., a cask of china for Tiffanys, a case of gloves for Marshall Field the remarkable ice-making machine on G Deck Billy Carters new English automobile the Ryersons 16 trunks, beautifully packed by Victorine.
Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember (Kindle Locations 1123-1127). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember (Kindle Locations 1118-1123). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
Chilling in print as well as on film. -
Woodyanders — 6 years ago(May 18, 2019 02:41 PM)
Poor Fred Wood trying and failing to pull himself onto the overturned lifeboat.
The band performing "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship sinks.
The multi-ethnic array of passengers all praying in different languages as the ship starts to go under the water.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.