A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection
by Roy Ward Baker
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Actor: Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, Ray Johnson, Walter Lord, William MacQuittyDirector: Roy Ward Baker
Brand: Image Entertainment
Producer: Ray Johnson
Writer: Walter Lord
Producer: William MacQuitty
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Cinematographer: Rod Pratt
Producer: Earl St. John
Writer: Eric Ambler
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Letterboxed, NTSC
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-05-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: A Night to Remember...exceptional film!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen many "Titanic" films and have enjoyed each of them for what they are and bring to the screen. I even owned this film on VHS prior to purchasing the DVD version, but purchased it again on DVD due to VHS becoming obsolete and because I like this version of the Titanic so much for its factual interpretation of that fateful night the Titanic sank. Having said that...If you want action and drama, you have Cameron's 1997 Titanic release which is great in itself, but if you want the straight facts of what occured on the night of April 14,1912 and the morning of April 15,1912, this is a version not to be missed and in my opinion has amazing effects along with the facts that many Titanic films fail to deliver. This continues to be extraordinary to me considereing the year this film was released back in 1958, and no matter how many times I watch "A Night to Remember," I still get the chills when I try to imagine what it must of been like to be aboard the Titanic that frigid night...mind you these are the same chills I get when I watch Cameron's 1997 version of the Titanic, but without the modern day movie special effects. What a great accomplishment this still continues to deliver even with all the other Titanic films in existance I must state yet again!!!
Summary of A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection
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 half of its passengers. This depicts the ships final hours in an unforgettable rendering of walter lords book. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 07/07/1998 Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Roy BakerTwo years after Twentieth Century Fox released its melodramatic disaster film Titanic in 1953, Walter Lord's meticulously researched book A Night to Remember surprised its publishers by becoming a phenomenal bestseller. Lord had an intuition that readers craved the reality of the Titanic disaster, and not the romantically mythologized translations that relied on fictional characters to enhance the world's worst maritime disaster. Lord's book proved that truth is far more compelling than fiction. Three years after it appeared, the book was brought to the screen with the kind of riveting authenticity he had insisted upon in his own research. The 1958 British production of A Night to Remember remains 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 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 thrill-master Eric Ambler is a model of factual suspense. By making Titanic the star of the film, director Roy Baker emphasizes the excessive confidence of the booming industrial age and creates an intense realism that pays tribute to Walter Lord's tenacious quest for truth. --Jeff Shannon
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