#7: BAKER, Roy Ward: A Night to Remember (1958)

BAKER, Roy Ward (United Kingdom)

A Night to Remember [1958]

Spine #7
DVD

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.

123 minutes

Black & White
Monaural

1:66:1 aspect ratio

Criterion Release 1998

Director/Writers

Roy Ward Baker was 42 when he directed A Night To Remember.
Screenplay by Eric Ambler.
Based on the book by Walter Lord.

The Film

The Extras

The Booklet

Four-page leaflet with an essay by Michael Sragow.

Commentary

Screen-specific commentary by author Don Lynch and Ken Marschall, illustrator of Titanic — An Illustrated History.

The Making of A Night to Remember

A 1993 60-minute documentary featuring William MacQuitty’s rare behind-the-scenes footage.

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