Stars: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe, David McCallum, Ronald Allen, Michael Bryant, Anthony Bushell, Sean Connery, Kenneth Griffith, Gerald Harper, Andrew Keir, Alec McCowen, Laurence Naismith, John Richardson, Jack Watling, Ralph Michael, Frank Lawton, Richard Leech, George Rose, Joseph Tomelty, Jill Dixon, John Cairney, Alec McCowen, Sean Connery, Sean Connery, Michael Bryant, Kenneth Griffith, John Richardson, Tim Turner, Robert Ayers, Richard Clarke, Jane Downs, James Dyrenforth, Harold Goldblatt, Harriette Johns, Tucker McGuire, John Merivale, Russell Napier, Redmond Phillips, Patrick Waddington

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Summary:

Directed by Hammer horror director Baker, this is another version of the tale of the doomed maiden voyage of the Titanic, told in a semi-documentary style through the eyes of the ship's second officer, Herbert Lightoller, whose duties provided him with a unique perspective of the everyday goings-on aboard the huge ocean liner. An excellent cast (selected for their resemblances to photos of the real passengers) conveys the courage, greed, fear, hope and despair of the real-life passengers. Based on the novel by Walter Lord.

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Two years after 20th Century Fox released its melodramatic disaster film Titanicin 1953, Walter Lord's meticulously researched book A Night to Remembersurprised its publishers by becoming a phenomenal bestseller. Lord had an intuition that readers craved the reality of the Titanic disaster and not the romantically mythologised translations (like Fox's film, starring Barbara Stanwyck), which relied on fictional characters to "enhance" the world's worst maritime disaster. Lord's book proved that the truth was far more compelling than fiction, outlining the many "if onlys" (if only the iceberg had been spotted a few minutes earlier, etc.) that lent sombre irony to the loss of 1,500 Titanic passengers. Three years after Lord's book appeared, it was brought to the screen with the kind of riveting authenticity that Lord had insisted upon in his own research. The 1958 British production of A Night to Rememberremains a definitive dramatization of the disaster, adhering to the known facts of the time and achieving a documentary-like immediacy that matches (and in some ways surpasses) the James Cameron epic released 39 years later. The film erroneously perpetuates the once-common belief that the Titanic sunk in one piece (instead of breaking in half as its bow began to plunge), but many other misconceptions are accurately corrected, and the intelligent screenplay by thriller master Eric Ambler is a model of factual suspense. By making Titanic the star of the film, director Roy Baker emphasises the excessive confidence of the booming industrial age and creates an intense you-are-there realism that pays tribute to Walter Lord's tenacious quest for truth. --Jeff Shannon

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Making Of Documentary, UK And US Theatrical Trailers, Interactive Menu, Biographies, Scene Access
Year:	1957
Release Date:	September 14, 1998
Runtime:	180 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	37115 00013
Keywords:	Night, General, Wide, Screen, Remember, Making, Drama
Genre:	Drama