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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 dr... Full description
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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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Item Description: |
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. |
Physical Description: |
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([20] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.). |
Format: |
DVD, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; PCM mono, NTSC region 1. |
Production Credits: |
Music by William Alwyn ; director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth ; editor, Sidney Hayers. |
ISBN: |
9781604655698 : 1604655690 |