A Night to Remember
By June 02, 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 Read more »
- United Kingdom
- 1958
- 123 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.66:1
- English
- Spine #7
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 more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord’s book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship’s last hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night
to Remember is cinema’s subtlest and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller | Kenneth More |
| Mr. Clarke | Ronald Allen |
| Major Arthur Peuchen | Robert Ayres |
| Mrs. Liz Lucas | Honor Blackman |
| Captain Arthur Rostron | Anthony Bushell |
| Mr. Murphy | John Cairney |
| Mrs. Clarke | Jill Dixon |
| Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller | Jane Downs |
| Colonel Archibald Gracie | James Dyrenforth |
| Thomas Andrews | Michael Goodliffe |
| Phillips | Kenneth Griffith |
| Lady Richard | Harriette Johns |
| J. Bruce Ismay | Frank Lawton |
| First Officer William Murdoch | Richard Leech |
| Bride | David McCallum |
| Wireless Operator Harold Thomas Cottam | Alec McCowen |
| Molly Brown | Tucker McGuire |
| Mr. Robbie Lucas | John Merivale |
| Mr. Yates | Ralph Michael |
| Captain Edward John Smith | Laurence Naismith |
| Captain Stanley Lord | Russell Napier |
| Mr. Hoyle | Redmond Phillips |
| Charles Joughin, the Baker | George Rose |
| Dr. William O’Loughlin | Joseph Tomelty |
| Sir Richard | Patrick Waddington |
| Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall | Jack Watling |
Credits
| Director | Roy Ward Baker |
| Produced by | William MacQuitty |
| Executive producer | Earl St. John |
| Screenplay | Eric Ambler |
| Based on the book by | Walter Lord |
| Director of photography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| Editor | Sidney Hayers |
| Music | William Alwyn |
| Art director | Alex Vetchinsky |
Disc Features
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed
monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition - Audio commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall, author and illustrator of “Titanic”: An Illustrated History
- The Making of “A Night to Remember” (1993), a sixty-minute documentary featuring producer William MacQuitty’s rare behind-the-scenes footage
- Archival interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart
- En natt att minnas (1962), a half-hour Swedish documentary featuring interviews with Titanic survivors
- The Iceberg That Sank the “Titanic” (2006), a sixty-minute BBC documentary
- Trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Sragow and archival photographs
