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A Night to Remember

Roy Ward Baker

United Kingdom

1958

123 minutes

Black and White

1.66:1

English

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Synopsis

On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. A Night to Remember depicts the ship’s final hours in an unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord’s book of the same name. Now, aficionados of this terrific film can compare it to the facts with Criterion’s special edition, which features screen-specific commentary by Titanic experts Don Lynch and Ken Marschall.

Cast

Herbert LightollerKenneth More
Mrs. LucasHonor Blackman
Thomas AndrewsMichael Goodliffe
PhillipsKenneth Griffith
BrideDavid McCallum
Molly BrownTucker McGuire

Credits

ProducerWilliam MacQuitty
DirectorRoy Ward Baker
ScreenplayEric Ambler
CinematographyGeoffrey Unsworth
EditingSidney Hayers
MusicWilliam Alwyn

Disc Features

  • Pristine digital transfer with restored image and sound in the film’s original aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
  • Screen-specific audio commentary by Don Lynch, author, and Ken Marschall, illustrator, of Titanic—An Illustrated History
  • The Making of “A Night to Remember” (1993), a 60-minute documentary featuring William MacQuitty’s rare behind-the-scenes footage
  • Optimal image quality: dual-layer edition

From the Current

A Night to Remember

by Michael Sragow Jun 2, 1998

In Ray Johnson’s documentary The Making of “A Night to Remember”, Walter Lord says that when he wrote his 1955 book on the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, there was no mass interest in the topic; nothing had been written about it in the previous...

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