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A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection

starring: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Anthony Bushell
directed by: Roy Ward Baker

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9781559408684
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Letterboxed, NTSC
ISBN: 1559408685
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 1998
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 14794
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: December 16, 1958



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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 Baker

Amazon.com:
Two 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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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Extraordinary movie, but be careful with your disc...
There's not much more to be said about this, the *definitive* Titanic movie.

But be ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Accurate and entertaining
Except for occasional profanity, this version of the Titanic story is far better than the current ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Best Titanic Movie Ever
After my dissapointment in the documentary of the Titanic I watched this version of the disaster. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Still THE definitive Film About Titanic
No, there's no CGI in this film, no box office stars or the over blown melodrama that comprised James ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Titanic story interpreted through a 1950s lens...
This is an excellent movie that I vaguely remembered seeing on TV years and years ago. I just saw it the ... Read More

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