Y'know, I was going to respond to your query even before I saw your other post complaining about the lack of responses--I really was!
Prove it.
I'm kidding. That was a great reply. Sean Connery was on board the Titanic?! Even if the year was 1958, that's amazing. You sometimes see a schlock movie that should have never been made get repackaged after the no name actor they paid $5000 to makes it big time. While A NIGHT TO REMEMBER is a great film and needs no star power promotion, you'd still think you'd hear about that. I have to guess that when (the future) 007 appeared, he was A) in a crowd scene on deck, and B) at nighttime, and C) he was probably moving a good deal, so picking out his handsome face in a shadowy crowd is probably beyond my ability, but still good info to know!
That making of a night to remember feature sounds like a must have. The Nazi's made their own Titanic film, crazy as that sounds. It portrayed the gutless self-centered Brits only worried about themselves getting off the sinking ship. Meanwhile, an altruistic German on board is concerned only with helping everyone else. I look foward to seeing that bit of Nazi propoganda. The ship they used for passenger scenes was sunk during WW II with a loss of life actually more than 3 times greater than Titanic, but who ever heard of the SS Cap Arcona?
You mentioned "lifted" scenes from the Nazi version that were used on A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. The Wikipedia link states this:
Four clips from the film were recycled and used in the successful 1958 film A Night to Remember; two of the ship sailing in calm waters during the day, and two brief clips of a flooding walkway in the engine room.
Here is the Wikipedia List of films about the RMS Titanic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_RMS_Titanic
I (finally) just saw the 1953 TITANIC with a boyish Robert Wagner. Barbara Stanwyck stole the picture with her acting, but otherwise, it was no NIGHT TO REMEMBER. A couple of times people break out in song (Robert Wagner among them) like you were watching a musical. In NTR, you see the ship being destroyed on the inside as water smashes through walls and steel pans in the kitchen go flying off tilted shelves. In the tamer 1953 version, the only interior scene that things are not good is a few feet of water in the boiler room. The Captain gives immediate orders for lifeboats away, the passengers are all orderly (but we see panic and shoving in NTR), and this is the oddest part for me from the '53 Titanic; As the ship begins it's final tilt to descend into the Atlantic Ocean, everyone on board is singing in unison, Nearer my God to thee. I thought to myself - what a film! They all died happily ever after! 
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