“A Night to Remember” is a disaster film about the sinking of the Titanic. Director Roy Ward Baker (“The One That Got Away” 1957) put together this very historically accurate film with good production values. It was done in the docudrama style, a genre of film which features dramatized reenactments of actual events.
The cast includes Kenneth More, Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, Kenneth Griffith, Frank Lawton, Russel Napier, and Tucker McGuire as Margaret “Unsinkable Molly” Brown. Future stars David McCallum, Honor Blackman, and Bernard Fox were cast in uncredited secondary roles. Fox also appeared in the big 1997 hit “Titanic,” and in what was perhaps his most famous character of Dr. Bombay, a recurring role on the television sitcom “Bewitched” (1964-1972).
The screenplay was penned by Eric Ambler, adapted from Walter Lord’s 1955 book of the same name. “A Night to Remember” did not make enough money at the box office to cover the budget for producer William MacQuitty and the British production company The Rank Organisation.
A Night to Remember (1958)
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“A Night to Remember” is a disaster film about the sinking of the Titanic. Director Roy Ward Baker (“The One That Got Away” 1957) put together this very historically accurate film with good production values. It was done in the docudrama style, a genre of film which features dramatized reenactments of actual events.
The cast includes Kenneth More, Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, Kenneth Griffith, Frank Lawton, Russel Napier, and Tucker McGuire as Margaret “Unsinkable Molly” Brown. Future stars David McCallum, Honor Blackman, and Bernard Fox were cast in uncredited secondary roles. Fox also appeared in the big 1997 hit “Titanic,” and in what was perhaps his most famous character of Dr. Bombay, a recurring role on the television sitcom “Bewitched” (1964-1972).
The screenplay was penned by Eric Ambler, adapted from Walter Lord’s 1955 book of the same name. “A Night to Remember” did not make enough money at the box office to cover the budget for producer William MacQuitty and the British production company The Rank Organisation.