A night to remember [videorecording] / The Rank Organisation presents ; a William MacQuitty production ; screenplay by Eric Ambler ; produced by William MacQuitty ; directed by Roy Baker.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Two DVD special ed.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([20] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Honor Blackman, Frank Lawton, David McCallum, Laurence Naismith. From the book by Walter Lord. Originally produced in 1958. Special features: new high-definition restoration; audio commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall; the making of "A night to remember" (1993), a sixty-minute documentary; archival interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart; En natt att minas, a half-hour Swedish documentary from 1962; The iceberg that sank the Titanic, a fifty-minute BBC documentary (2006); trailer; a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Sragow.
Contents:
Disc 1. A veritable floating city -- Three degrees of separation -- Garters with pink, frilly bows -- Ice warnings -- Keep their eyes skinned -- Making the rounds -- People first, things second -- Bedtime -- Iceberg dead ahead -- I think she's badly damaged -- She's going to sink -- The crew prepares -- SOS, that new call -- The Carpathia on the move -- Women and children -- In the same boat -- Discontent in all quarters -- Listing ship, rising water -- All roads lead to Rome -- Good-bye, my son -- Holding back steerage -- My lucky pig -- We are the Titanic sinking -- Newlyweds, a yachtsman, and a drunk -- Together till the end -- Save yourselves -- Is there no one else? -- The Carpathia to the rescue -- Shots in the dark -- Two lifeboats left -- Every man for himself -- Abandoning the ship -- Nearer, my God, to thee -- Fighting to survive -- The final descent -- C'mon, girls. Row! -- Lightoller takes command -- The Carpathia at last -- Seven hundred and five saved, fifteen hundred lost -- Commentary / Don Lynch, Ken Marschall -- Trailer. Disc 2. The making of A Night to Remember -- Eva Hart : survivor -- En Natt Att Minnas [1962 30-minute Swedish documentary featuring interviews with Titanic survivors] -- The iceberg that sank the Titanic [2006 50-minute BBC documentary].
Summary:
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 Titanic's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night To Remember is cinema's subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
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