A Night to Remember (Imprint)

A Night to Remember (Imprint) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$29.99

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
123 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1958 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Roy Ward Baker

Written By:
Walter Lord
Eric Ambler

Actors:
Kenneth More ..... Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller
Ronald Allen ..... Mr. Clarke
Robert Ayres ..... Maj. Arthur Peuchen
Honor Blackman ..... Mrs. Liz Lucas
Anthony Bushell ..... Capt. Arthur Rostron
John Cairney ..... Mr. Murphy
Jill Dixon ..... Mrs. Clarke
Jane Downs ..... Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller
James Dyrenforth ..... Col. Archibald Gracie
Michael Goodliffe ..... Thomas Andrews
Kenneth Griffith ..... Wireless Operator John 'Jack' Phillips
Harriette Johns ..... Lady Richard
Frank Lawton ..... Chairman J. Bruce Ismay
Richard Leech ..... First Officer William Murdoch
David McCallum ..... Assistant Wireless Operator Harold Bride
Alec McCowen ..... Wireless Operator Harold Thomas Cottam
Tucker McGuire ..... Mrs. Margaret 'Molly' Brown
John Merivale ..... Robbie Lucas
Ralph Michael ..... Mr. Yates
Laurence Naismith ..... Capt. Edward John Smith
Russell Napier ..... Capt. Stanley Lord
Redmond Phillips ..... Mr. Hoyle
George Rose ..... Chief Baker Charles Joughin
Joseph Tomelty ..... Dr. William O'Loughlin
Patrick Waddington ..... Sir Richard
Jack Watling ..... Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
Geoffrey Bayldon ..... Wireless Operator Cyril Evans
Michael Bryant ..... Sixth Officer James Moody
Cyril Chamberlain ..... Quartermaster George Thomas Rowe
Richard Clarke ..... Gallagher
Bee Duffell ..... Mrs. Farrell
Harold Goldblatt ..... Benjamin Guggenheim
Gerald Harper ..... 3rd Officer - Carpathia
Richard Hayward ..... Victualling Officer
Thomas Heathcote ..... Steward
Danuta Karell ..... Polish Mother
Andrew Keir ..... 2nd Engineer Officer John Henry Hesketh
Christina Lubicz ..... Polish Girl
Barry MacGregor ..... Apprentice James Gibson
Edward Malin ..... Dining Saloon Steward
Patrick McAlinney ..... Mr. James Farrell
Helen Misener ..... Mrs. Ida Straus
Mary Monahan ..... Kate
Howard Pays ..... Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
Philip Ray ..... Reverend Anderson
Harold Siddons ..... Second Officer Herbert Stone
Julian Somers ..... Mr. Bull - Man on Train
Tim Turner ..... Third Officer Charles Groves
Meier Tzelniker ..... Mr. Isador Straus
John Adams ..... Passenger
Chris Adcock ..... Injured Stoker / Steerage Passenger / First Class Passenger
John Adderley ..... Passenger
Bart Allison ..... Drunk
Gerald Andersen ..... 1st Officer Dean [Carpathia]
Jean Anderson ..... Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat
Keith Anderson ..... Assistant Purser
Frank Andrews ..... Passenger
Maidie Andrews ..... Christening Lady
Laurence Archer ..... Dignitary at Launching
Jack Armstrong ..... First Class Passenger / Passenger
Roger Avon ..... Lookout Reginald Lee
Denise Aylmer ..... Older Sharp-Featured Woman with Black Curly Hair
John Bailey ..... Passenger
Micky Baker ..... Bellboy
William Baskiville ..... Passenger
Richard Beale ..... Harbor Pilot
Alan Beaton ..... Passenger
Hyma Beckley ..... Passenger
Charles Belchier ..... Wallace Hartley
Joan Benham ..... Lottie
Barbara Bennett ..... Steerage Passenger
Pauline Bentley ..... 1st Class Passenger
Paul Beradi ..... 1st Class Passenger
Charlie Bird ..... Passenger
David Birks ..... Stoker / Crewman
Diana Blackwood ..... Passenger with Baby
The Blake Twins ..... Titanic Passengers
Ernest Blyth ..... 1st Class Passenger
Wallace Bosco ..... 1st Class Passenger
Roger Bourne ..... Musician

Synopsis:

A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later part of Cunard) luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic's sinking from the standpoint of Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller, himself the most senior of the ill-fated ship's Deck Officers to survive the disaster (Lightoller later went on to distinguish himself as a line British Naval Officer during the First World War and served as a Senior Naval Staff Officer on convoys during World War II. Between wars, he owned and operated a successful family business producing pleasure craft). His own survival of the sinking, along with several others, is shown atop one of the liner's two 'collapsible' lifeboats which were capsized in floating off the liner as it sank. The picture depicts then known facts (1958) as reported after the sinking--such as the woeful lack of adequate lifeboats, the ship's band playing true to the very end, White Star's co-owner Bruce Ismay's somewhat less-than-chivalrous departure from the sinking vessel, and the Titanic's designer's (Thomas Andrews) revelation that due to the severity of below-the-water-line damage and that the vaunted watertight compartments were not designed to nor sealed up to the weather deck, would only delay the inevitable as sea water spilled over the top of one to the next from the bows to the stern. It also addresses the mysterious ship seen from the Titanic's bridge stopped some 12-19 miles off and depicts it as being the S.S. Californian, whom - if that steamship had responded, the loss of life could have been far, far less. The Californian is seen stopped due to the ice warnings, the same alerts whose import were undervalued by Captain Edward J. Smith. She herself had shut-down wireless operations, nominally at 11:00pm as her sole operator retired for the evening, this before the iceberg was struck and the first distress calls were made by Titanic. It also addresses somewhat the coal fire in one of Titanic's bunkers - apparently not uncommon back in those days, before her departure into the Atlantic and potential for damage to steel plates below the water line (This picture predates the calling-into-question of the quality of rivets [metalurgy] which has since come to the fore). The film also shows the class distinction and its impact as to whom - of the 'women and children first', got a seat in a boat; the fact that the first/earliest lifeboats launched were not at full capacity; and that the boats launched from the port and starboard side held to different criteria as to loading. The latter allows the viewer an inference as to the importance for crew and passenger alike as to lifeboat drills which were then (1912) neither required nor ever held aboard Titanic. One of several movies on the subject, it stands well the test-of-time for its 'just the facts' approach in the telling and avoidance of conjecture or added melodrama.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 17 April, 2025.