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My dear, I never expected to ask you to obey me... but this is one time you must. It's only a matter of form for you and the children to go first. Everyone here will be quite safe. |
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—Robbie Lucas to Liz Lucas | ||
Robert "Robbie" Lucas is a fictional character in A Night to Remember (1958). He was the husband of Liz Lucas and traveled on the Titanic with his wife and his three children as a first class passengers. He was portrayed by John Merivale.
Role in the film[]
He and his family occupied a cabin on the A deck, right in front of the Grand Staircase and next to the Edith Louise Rosenbaum's cabin.
"Oh Mr. Andrews...I would like you to tell me something...I have a wife and three children onboard...Just how serious is it?"
He first appeared when the Titanic was sinking, he approached Thomas Andrews, and asked what was going on. He assured Thomas Andrews that he was not the panicking kind. Thomas Andrews replied to him that Titanic only had one hour left to live and told him to take his wife and children to the lifeboat. He agreed, and told Thomas Andrews that maybe he would be in the same boat with him. Thomas Andrews just smiled and said we may.
Robbie Lucas put on a necklace to his wife
Robbie rushed to his cabin and told his wife that there was some problem with the ship and told her to wake their daughters. He also put a necklace on his wife and started to wake their children.
"You're going to ride on a boat, old son..."
At the Grand Staircase, his son Tom Lucas tell to him that he wanted to go back to bed. Robbie replied that Tom was going to ride on a boat.
"My dear...I never expected to ask you to obey me, but this is one time you must..."
They headed for Lifeboat 4, seeing Mrs. Charlotte Collyer crying because she didn't want to be separated from her husband. Liz also did not want to leave Robbie, he immediately assured his wife that he never asked her to obey him, but for now she must. And said that everyone who remains on the ship will be quite safe.
"Now be a good girls...and look after your mother..."
His wife reluctantly agreed and entered Lifeboat 4. Robbie told his two daughters to be a good girl and take care of their mother, and said goodbye to his son, Tom Lucas. When Lifeboat 4 being lowered, his wife and his three children said goodbye to him.
Robbie Lucas in the stern
Robbie reappeared when Titanic had her final plunge. He dashed towards the stern, seeing that the lifeboats were so far away that it was difficult to swim toward them. He gave up and in the end drowned with the Titanic and the other 1500 people.
Trivia[]
- Robbie Lucas and his wife are composites of several married couples, notably Mr. Lucian Smith and Mrs. Mary Smith. Lucas even says the words actually spoken by Lucien Smith to his wife: "I never expected to ask you to obey me, but this is one time you must".
- The scene when Robbie attaches a necklace to his wife seems to inspire a scene in the 1997 film Titanic, when Caledon Hockley pairs the Heart of the Ocean to Rose.